Seeds of Resistance
The "ware of women."
What is how Samuel Brun described rice as women’s trade good?
Knowledge, power, subjectivity.
What are Escobar’s three axes of development?
From daily lives of disadvantaged groups.
What is where standpoint analysis begins?
Epistemological disenfranchisement.
What is being knowledge-rich but economically poor?
The Green Revolution.
What is the modernization project reshaping agriculture?
"Botanical gardens of the dispossessed."
What are enslaved peoples’ dooryard gardens?
WTO.
What is the global trade “police” of intellectual property?
“Bad memories.”
What is how Linda Tuhiwai Smith describes research?
Intellectual beheading.
What is Lin’s metaphor for divided colonial knowledge?
Frantz Fanon.
Who critiqued colonial medicine as complicit with violence?
The slave ship Mary in 1796.
What is the vessel that recorded women cleaning rice onboard?
Exploited women’s work.
What is a critique of modernization theory?
Principle of symmetry.
What is treating STS and non-Western terms equally?
A syncretic system.
What is Chinese medicine’s way of absorbing biomedicine?
Coconstitution.
What is the intertwining of gender and colonial relations?
Cheaper & less prone to spoilage.
What are reasons captains preferred unmilled rice?
A “space for subject peoples.”
What is the function of colonial discourse?
From “ignorant of the alphabet” to “absolute ignorant.”
What is Hountondji’s critique of “illiterate”?
SSCI journal pressure.
What is the force reinforcing Euro-American dominance?
Mortar and pestle.
What is the African technology essential for Carolina rice?
Gendered division of labor.
What is evidence rice culture was transferred from West Africa?
Produces its own objects of knowledge.
What is the definition of “discourse”?
Studying up.
What is researching dominant groups from the perspective of the marginalized?
Epistemological foundationalism.
What is biomedicine’s reductive “facts are facts” logic?
The Cold War.
What is the geopolitical barrier to postcolonial critiques of science?