Becoming 'Wild' at the Intersection of Knowledges

Coffee Rust Crisis in Costa Rica

Bibliographic Data

ID2143045
AuthorsIsabelle Hugøy (0009-0008-3069-4580, University of Bergen, corresponding author), Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard (University of Bergen)
Year2021
Volume86
Issue2
Pages349-369
Publication date2021-03-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2019.1640761
OpenAlexW2969955046
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited22

This article explores the relationship between visualism, practice and knowledge through the specific case of the 2012-2013 coffee rust-epidemic and its repercussions among small-scale coffee farmers in Turrialba, Costa Rica. The article shows how the rust-epidemic marked an alteration not only in farmers and agronomists' perceptions of roya, but also in farming practices. The argument of the article is twofold: First, that the perceptual shift of roya from being 'calm' to becoming 'wild' involved both top-down and bottom-up processes; and, second, that farmers increasingly combine looking and seeing in their daily management practices. We illustrate these dynamic interchanges by drawing on Okely's (2001, Visualism and Landscape: Looking and Seeing in Normandy. Ethnos, 66(1):99-120) approach to visualism, and argue that an emphasis on interchanges and interconnections between knowledges is essential in dealings with ecological alteration

Agriculture · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Biology · Cartography · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Intersection (aeronautics · Perception · Rust (programming language · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Organic Food and Agriculture · Philosophy

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