Please note this lecture has been cancelled. Sarah Fowler Assistant to the Director MIT Science, Technology and Society 617-253-3452 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie Meinbresse Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Sci-tech-public] STS Special Lecture: Clapperton Mavhunga,Feb 25 @ 4 pm Please join us on Monday, February 25: STS Special Lecture FORCE MULTIPLIERS 'Pest Control' and the Origins of Rhodesia's Biological and Chemical Warfare Against Zimbabwean Nationalist Guerrillas, c. 1890-1980 Clapperton Mavhunga University of Michigan 4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095 How is it that technologies designed to control 'nature' shift from being used for controlling animals and plants to controlling 'people'? In other words, how do we arrive at the re-invention of people into pests (pesthood)? This presentation considers the ways in which poisons were used to combat "dangerous" insects, wild animals, and people in the British colony of Rhodesia in 1890-1974. The discussion revolves around the state's social engineering of "transgression" (of crops, livestock ranches, and sovereignty) and how the battle between state and pest was fought through mobility and technology. The argument is that British colonialism was virtually impossible without pest control work. Debbie Meinbresse STS Program, MIT 617-452-2390 _______________________________________________ Sci-tech-public mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sci-tech-public
