+publisher:"Cornell University" +contributor:("Seth, Suman")

Cornell University

1. Dalyan, Can. LATENT LIVES: GENEBANKING AND THE POLITICS OF CONSERVATION IN TURKEY.

Degree: PhD, Anthropology, 2018, Cornell University

► This dissertation examines the technoscientific and cultural codes of ex-situ plant conservation in Turkey. Following the Convention on Biological Diversity that granted nation states sovereign… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines the technoscientific and cultural codes of ex-situ plant conservation in Turkey. Following the Convention on Biological Diversity that granted nation states sovereign rights over nonhuman genetic resources and in line with the recent informational turn in biodiversity conservation, the last two decades saw the proliferation of national and international genebanks worldwide. This work has as its centerpiece one such national bank, the Turkish Seed Gene Bank (TSGB), where I conducted ethnographic fieldwork between 2013 and 2014. I analyze in this dissertation the everyday workings of the TSGB with a view to understanding the polyvalent meanings of genebanking in Turkey at a time when species extinction and food security have emerged as global concerns due to climate change and biodiversity loss. In contrast with the universalist underpinnings of dominant conservation ideologies, I demonstrate how international access and benefit sharing agreements fall short of overcoming anxieties that stem from colonial and postcolonial histories of bioprospecting in Turkey. At the TSGB, I show that Bank employees remember, re-experience, and reinterpret these histories in everyday memory practices via personal and institutional narratives of loss. I argue that these narratives are also inextricably tied to a belief in capitalism’s futures, for in protecting Turkey’s plant biodiversity, the TSGB conservationists also long for a future when Turkey will have gained the capital and know-how to capitalize on the TSGB’s collection. In this everyday work of memory and historical commentary, I show that the TSGB naturalizes the nation on the one hand and nationalizes Nature on the other. While recent studies have pointed out the biopolitical characteristic of conservation as an actionable science that systematizes and targets life processes, the meanings that are attached to life and survival in conservation institutions have largely been overlooked. I demonstrate in this dissertation how the TSGB conservationists establish an interspecies critique of life and latency as they measure the viability of seeds in cold storage in tandem with their own working lives in a politically volatile bureaucracy against more mobile and untethered versions of being alive. This interspecies critique that examines life both a concept and as qualified experience, I argue, does not only stand at odds with the universalist aspirations of conservation, but also points to a chasm between understandings of life and survival in the Anthropocene. Within the legal framework of international biodiversity conservation, I assert that the TSGB’s conservation politics does not represent a failure of conservation or a disregard for common human futures, but a postcolonial reimagining of what life in the Anthropocene should look like. Advisors/Committee Members: Miyazaki, Hirokazu (chair), Seth, Suman (committee member), Pinkus, Karen Elyse (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Cultural anthropology; Genebanking; conservation; biopolitics; Anthropocene; Turkey; Climate change

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Dalyan, C. (2018). LATENT LIVES: GENEBANKING AND THE POLITICS OF CONSERVATION IN TURKEY. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59397

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Dalyan, Can. “LATENT LIVES: GENEBANKING AND THE POLITICS OF CONSERVATION IN TURKEY.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59397.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Dalyan, Can. “LATENT LIVES: GENEBANKING AND THE POLITICS OF CONSERVATION IN TURKEY.” 2018. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Dalyan C. LATENT LIVES: GENEBANKING AND THE POLITICS OF CONSERVATION IN TURKEY. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59397.

Council of Science Editors:

Dalyan C. LATENT LIVES: GENEBANKING AND THE POLITICS OF CONSERVATION IN TURKEY. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/59397

Cornell University

2. Walker, Alexis. VALUING LIFE AT THE BANK: CONTESTED EXPERTISE, RACIAL POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT BANK INTERVENTIONS IN GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH.

Degree: PhD, Science and Technology Studies, 2017, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56706

► Development banks had almost no involvement in the field of international health just a few decades ago, but today they shape the lives of millions… (more)

▼ Development banks had almost no involvement in the field of international health just a few decades ago, but today they shape the lives of millions of people by setting global health priorities and implementing health programs. In the context of neoliberal governance, “innovative finance,” and the shift from international to global health, key actors and approaches in the field have shifted, and what counts as relevant expertise in global health has also been called into question. This dissertation examines relationships of power and knowledge in the health work of development banks—examining what comes to count as relevant knowledge, who gets to use it, and with what social and political consequences. It does so by bringing together ethnographic research on two development bank-coordinated projects in Guyana with interview and archival research at the headquarters of the banks that finance and oversee these projects: the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. How do these international financial institutions investigate and understand health problems and implement solutions? What kinds of knowledge and values become influential as bank staff and consultants negotiate with Guyanese healthcare workers and government officials as to what problems will receive priority, through which methods, and who will be served? These are questions about the practice of contemporary governance in late neoliberal capitalism, as past international enthusiasm for private management of social welfare has begun to transform. While international financial institutions emphasize the importance of using economic tools and techniques to determine the “best investments” in public health, my research has highlighted the very different ways that economic knowledge comes to be valued across bank networks—even within a single project. Research and operations divisions, for example, have distinct understandings of how tools such as cost-effectiveness analysis ought to be used. And while economic analysis has been surprisingly absent from operational practice, experts in cultural anthropology and indigenous law have played a central role in shaping health projects in Guyana. In the process, their knowledges have become entangled with development bank histories and logics, and even as these institutions attempt to reform themselves, development bank health projects have continued to inscribe state racial codes in the bodies of Guyanese citizens. Advisors/Committee Members: Hilgartner, Stephen H. (chair), Hodzic, Saida (committee member), Seth, Suman (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: History; Sociology; Cultural anthropology; Caribbean; Financial institutions; Global Health; Guyana; Late neoliberalism; World Bank

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Walker, A. (2017). VALUING LIFE AT THE BANK: CONTESTED EXPERTISE, RACIAL POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT BANK INTERVENTIONS IN GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56706

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Walker, Alexis. “VALUING LIFE AT THE BANK: CONTESTED EXPERTISE, RACIAL POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT BANK INTERVENTIONS IN GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56706.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Walker, Alexis. “VALUING LIFE AT THE BANK: CONTESTED EXPERTISE, RACIAL POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT BANK INTERVENTIONS IN GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH.” 2017. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Walker A. VALUING LIFE AT THE BANK: CONTESTED EXPERTISE, RACIAL POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT BANK INTERVENTIONS IN GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56706.

Council of Science Editors:

Walker A. VALUING LIFE AT THE BANK: CONTESTED EXPERTISE, RACIAL POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT BANK INTERVENTIONS IN GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56706

Cornell University

3. Tinn, Hong-hong. Working With Computers, Constructing A Developing Country: Introducing, Using, Building, And Tinkering With Computers In Cold War Taiwan, 1959-1984.

Degree: PhD, Science and Technology Studies, 2012, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29323

► This dissertation uses a developing country's appropriation of mainframe computers, minicomputers, and microcomputers as a lens for understanding the historical relationships between the digital electronic… (more)

▼ This dissertation uses a developing country's appropriation of mainframe computers, minicomputers, and microcomputers as a lens for understanding the historical relationships between the digital electronic computing technology, the development discourse underlying the Cold War, and the international exchanges of scientific and technological expertise in the context of the Cold War. It asks why and how, during the Cold War, Taiwanese scientists, engineers, technocrats, and ordinary users-all in a so-called developing country-introduced digital electronic computing to Taiwan and later built computers there. To answer the why question, I argue that these social groups' perceptions of Taiwan's developmental status shaped their perceptions of the importance of possessing, using, and manufacturing computers. As for the how question, I propose that Taiwanese computer users modeled their practices after the existing successful practices of using mainframe computers and later started to build and tinker with minicomputers and microcomputers. The beginning chapter of this dissertation discusses that a group of Taiwanese engineers, technocrats, and scientists advocated the introduction of 'electronics science' and digital electronic computing from the United States to Taiwan for expanding the industrial sector of Taiwan's economy in the late 1950s. Their efforts resulted in a UN technical-aid program, in which National Chiao-Tung University's (NCTU) professors, students, and technicians worked with two US visiting professors to set up a computing center, equipped with an IBM 650 and an IBM 1620 computer, at the NCTU campus from 1962 to 1964 (chapter 3). Chapter 4 analyzes how, in 1964, a Cornell econometrician relied on NCTU's 1620 computer to form an economicplanning project for a Taiwanese government agency. Chapter 5 discusses a project in which a NCTU graduate program planned to build a minicomputer from scratch from 1968 to 1971, despite being able to buy a minicomputer from various US suppliers. Chapter 6 explores two intriguing phenomena that surfaced between 1980 and 1984: why many of Taiwan's computer users preferred to build their own microcomputers and how this preference initiated a series of debates about whether legal institutions allowed Taiwanese companies to make Apple compatibles. Advisors/Committee Members: Kline, Ronald R (chair), Pinch, Trevor J (committee member), Seth, Suman (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Development discourse; Digital electronic computing; Taiwan

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Tinn, H. (2012). Working With Computers, Constructing A Developing Country: Introducing, Using, Building, And Tinkering With Computers In Cold War Taiwan, 1959-1984. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29323

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Tinn, Hong-hong. “Working With Computers, Constructing A Developing Country: Introducing, Using, Building, And Tinkering With Computers In Cold War Taiwan, 1959-1984.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29323.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Tinn, Hong-hong. “Working With Computers, Constructing A Developing Country: Introducing, Using, Building, And Tinkering With Computers In Cold War Taiwan, 1959-1984.” 2012. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Tinn H. Working With Computers, Constructing A Developing Country: Introducing, Using, Building, And Tinkering With Computers In Cold War Taiwan, 1959-1984. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29323.

Council of Science Editors:

Tinn H. Working With Computers, Constructing A Developing Country: Introducing, Using, Building, And Tinkering With Computers In Cold War Taiwan, 1959-1984. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29323

Cornell University

4. Ahn, Christopher. Hirota Masaki And The Limits Of The Nation: An Annotated Excerpt From Bunmei Kaikai To MinshÛ Ishiki.

Degree: MA, East Asian Literature, 2013, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33827

► This annotated translation of an excerpt by Hirota Masaki makes available in English Hirota's discussion, in Bunmei kaika to minshû ishiki (Civilization and enlightenment and… (more)

▼ This annotated translation of an excerpt by Hirota Masaki makes available in English Hirota's discussion, in Bunmei kaika to minshû ishiki (Civilization and enlightenment and the people's consciousness), of the development of the people's political subjectivity during Japan's transformation from bakuhan bureaucracy to modern imperial state. The translation is preceded by a brief translator's introduction, which places Hirota's work into its historiographical context and directs the reader's attention to key points in the excerpt. In this excerpt, one of Hirota's primary concerns is the role that non-elites themselves played in the construction of the new polity. He argues that, far from being a monolithic entity, the village communities (which comprised the large majority of Japan's population at the time) were composed of three different social strata, each with its own distinctive relation to bunmei kaika. For Hirota, the interactions among these different layers of society were instrumental in shaping the character of, and the tensions within, the modern Japanese nation. In the first half of the excerpt, Hirota analyzes the ruling class's motivations for creating a national polity, and examines the uneasy combination of Enlightenment and Emperor ideologies that underpinned the kaika policies used to control the populace and harness its energies in service of the state. In the second half of the excerpt, Hirota examines the political subjectivities that were slowly beginning to emerge under the tumultuous political and social conditions of the late-Tokugawa and early-Meiji eras. He shows how these conditions, combined with the civilizational logic of the kaika policies, empowered some groups and disempowered others; and how the process of nation-building led to new forms of "degradation and discrimination" for the lower social strata. The result, he argues, was ultimately a "homogeneous nation" that, to this day, remains self-alienated and unequal. Advisors/Committee Members: Sakai, Naoki (chair), de Bary, Brett (committee member), Koschmann, Julien Victor (committee member), Seth, Suman (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Hirota Masaki; bunmei kaika; minshûshi; peoples history school

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Ahn, C. (2013). Hirota Masaki And The Limits Of The Nation: An Annotated Excerpt From Bunmei Kaikai To MinshÛ Ishiki. (Masters Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33827

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ahn, Christopher. “Hirota Masaki And The Limits Of The Nation: An Annotated Excerpt From Bunmei Kaikai To MinshÛ Ishiki.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33827.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ahn, Christopher. “Hirota Masaki And The Limits Of The Nation: An Annotated Excerpt From Bunmei Kaikai To MinshÛ Ishiki.” 2013. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Ahn C. Hirota Masaki And The Limits Of The Nation: An Annotated Excerpt From Bunmei Kaikai To MinshÛ Ishiki. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Cornell University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33827.

Council of Science Editors:

Ahn C. Hirota Masaki And The Limits Of The Nation: An Annotated Excerpt From Bunmei Kaikai To MinshÛ Ishiki. [Masters Thesis]. Cornell University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33827

Cornell University

5. Lin, Ling-fei. The Dynamics Of Design-Manufacturing Laptops: How Taiwanese Contract Manufacturers Matter In The History Of Laptop Production.

Degree: PhD, Science and Technology Studies, 2015, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39461

► This dissertation aims to open the knowledge production "black box" of laptop contract manufacturers in Taiwan and their factories in China from 1988 to 2012.… (more)

▼ This dissertation aims to open the knowledge production "black box" of laptop contract manufacturers in Taiwan and their factories in China from 1988 to 2012. By examining their engineering practices, I demonstrate the complexity and changing dynamics of design-manufacturing laptops across different time periods, which not only refutes a perception of linear progress from manufacturing to design for Taiwan's industry, but also challenges the idea that manufacturing lacks innovation and importance. I show how manufacturing and design capability are equally crucial and argue that it is also the intensive interaction between design and manufacturing, internally and externally, that matters. I develop a concept, field knowledge, to describe this interactiveness that involves frequent multiple-sited and trans-organizational exchanges between actors from heterogeneous backgrounds. My research, based on extensive interviews, unpacks the sociotechnical process in producing laptops that involves the transnational flow of people, ideas, and materials. In Chapter One, I show how Taiwanese producers designed their first laptops in the late 1980s based primarily on design engineering capability and how they learned to specialize the development process through collaborating with brand-name firms. In Chapter Two, I explore the complexity of the product development process, analyzing how the relations between design and manufacturing are intertwined. Chapter Three covers the issue of ever-thinning margins for producers and the practice of field knowledge that enabled them to create useful knowledge through constant interaction with internal and external partners to reduce costs. In Chapter Four, I analyze how these manufacturers, as mediators in the production world, have been contained and standardized by powerful partners. In Chapter Five, I examine how large-scale factory relocation from Taiwan to China after 2001 affected the practices and the lives of employees engaged in a permanent struggle between rootedness and mobility. I also show how their manufacturing capability was ever expanding, along with growing design expertise. Overall, this dissertation problematizes the production process and demonstrates the changing dynamics of design-manufacturing laptops within their social and historical context, arguing that it is the proficient capability of both design and manufacturing, and the effective integration between them that increases and maintains laptop consolidation. Advisors/Committee Members: Pinch, Trevor J (chair), Kline, Ronald R (coChair), Lynch, Michael E. (committee member), Seth, Suman (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: field knowledge; history of computer production; design; manufacturing; and society

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Lin, L. (2015). The Dynamics Of Design-Manufacturing Laptops: How Taiwanese Contract Manufacturers Matter In The History Of Laptop Production. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39461

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lin, Ling-fei. “The Dynamics Of Design-Manufacturing Laptops: How Taiwanese Contract Manufacturers Matter In The History Of Laptop Production.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39461.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lin, Ling-fei. “The Dynamics Of Design-Manufacturing Laptops: How Taiwanese Contract Manufacturers Matter In The History Of Laptop Production.” 2015. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lin L. The Dynamics Of Design-Manufacturing Laptops: How Taiwanese Contract Manufacturers Matter In The History Of Laptop Production. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39461.

Council of Science Editors:

Lin L. The Dynamics Of Design-Manufacturing Laptops: How Taiwanese Contract Manufacturers Matter In The History Of Laptop Production. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/39461

Cornell University

6. Nelson, Nicole. Capturing Complexity: Experimental Systems And Epistemic Scaffolds In Animal Behavior Genetics.

Degree: PhD, Science and Technology Studies, 2011, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29433

► This dissertation examines knowledge production practices in the field of animal behavior genetics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a laboratory at "Western University" that uses… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines knowledge production practices in the field of animal behavior genetics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a laboratory at "Western University" that uses rodents to study the genetics of alcoholism and anxiety, I investigate how practitioners establish experimental systems to model human behavioral disorders in the laboratory and manage the excess of uncertainty that they associate with the "complexity" of behavior. To illuminate the dynamics of knowledge production in animal behavior genetics, I develop the metaphor of an "epistemic scaffold" to describe how practitioners establish and act on the conceptual foundations of particular models or tests. The image of a scaffold highlights two different processes taking place in the research community: the process of making specific links between the animal and the human using available data and theory, and the process of making more or less general claims about the utility of animal models and the applicability of animal behavior genetics findings. Methodological discussions about tests such as the elevated plus maze demonstrate how researchers negotiate about what counts as sound evidence for the connection of this test to human anxiety, and about whether researchers should claim that test models "anxiety" or only "anxiety-like behavior." The assumption that human behavioral disorders are likely to be "complex" animates many of these discussions about the practices and conceptual foundations of the field. I analyze how researchers stabilize particular representations of multi-faceted human behaviors such as binge drinking by developing new models, and show how some researchers use these models to highlight the role of environmental factors in behavior rather than solely "reducing" human behavior to genes. Different understandings of the "complexity" of human behavior are also associated with different expectations about the stability of animal behavior genetics experimental systems and how quickly knowledge will accumulate in the field. I demonstrate how practitioners attempt to manage expectations about what associations can be made between genes and behavior not only in the laboratory but also with other audiences in mind, such as funding agencies, policy makers, and the public. Advisors/Committee Members: Hilgartner, Stephen H (chair), Lynch, Michael E. (committee member), Leuenberger-Pinch, Christine A. (committee member), Seth, Suman (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Behavior Genetics; Animal Models; Science and Technology Studies

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Nelson, N. (2011). Capturing Complexity: Experimental Systems And Epistemic Scaffolds In Animal Behavior Genetics. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29433

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Nelson, Nicole. “Capturing Complexity: Experimental Systems And Epistemic Scaffolds In Animal Behavior Genetics.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29433.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Nelson, Nicole. “Capturing Complexity: Experimental Systems And Epistemic Scaffolds In Animal Behavior Genetics.” 2011. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Nelson N. Capturing Complexity: Experimental Systems And Epistemic Scaffolds In Animal Behavior Genetics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29433.

Council of Science Editors:

Nelson N. Capturing Complexity: Experimental Systems And Epistemic Scaffolds In Animal Behavior Genetics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29433

Cornell University

7. Tally, Rebecca. At The Mercy Of The Millers: Empire, Science, And Import Substitution In Colombia, 1930-1966.

Degree: PhD, History, 2012, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31131

► This dissertation examines processes of nation and state formation in Colombia through an analysis of the context and debates surrounding the importation, production, and consumption… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Colombia; Agriculture; Economic Development

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Tally, R. (2012). At The Mercy Of The Millers: Empire, Science, And Import Substitution In Colombia, 1930-1966. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31131

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Tally, Rebecca. “At The Mercy Of The Millers: Empire, Science, And Import Substitution In Colombia, 1930-1966.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31131.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Tally, Rebecca. “At The Mercy Of The Millers: Empire, Science, And Import Substitution In Colombia, 1930-1966.” 2012. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Tally R. At The Mercy Of The Millers: Empire, Science, And Import Substitution In Colombia, 1930-1966. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31131.

Council of Science Editors:

Tally R. At The Mercy Of The Millers: Empire, Science, And Import Substitution In Colombia, 1930-1966. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31131

Cornell University

8. Onaga, Lisa. Silkworm, Science, And Nation: A Sericultural History Of Genetics In Modern Japan.

Degree: PhD, Science and Technology Studies, 2012, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29385

► This dissertation describes how and why the source of raw silk, the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori), emerged as an organism that scientists in Japan researched… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: sericulture; genetics; breeding; Japan; hybridization; mutation; silk; Toyama Kametaro; Tanaka Yoshimaro

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Onaga, L. (2012). Silkworm, Science, And Nation: A Sericultural History Of Genetics In Modern Japan. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29385

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Onaga, Lisa. “Silkworm, Science, And Nation: A Sericultural History Of Genetics In Modern Japan.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29385.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Onaga, Lisa. “Silkworm, Science, And Nation: A Sericultural History Of Genetics In Modern Japan.” 2012. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Onaga L. Silkworm, Science, And Nation: A Sericultural History Of Genetics In Modern Japan. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29385.

Council of Science Editors:

Onaga L. Silkworm, Science, And Nation: A Sericultural History Of Genetics In Modern Japan. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29385

9. Thompson, Darla. Circuits Of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration And The Infrastructure Of Slavery.

Degree: PhD, Science and Technology Studies, 2014, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36009

► This dissertation documents the development of New Orleans and Louisiana from 1805-1861. I argue that iron collars emerged in the nineteenth century as technologies of… (more)

▼ This dissertation documents the development of New Orleans and Louisiana from 1805-1861. I argue that iron collars emerged in the nineteenth century as technologies of torture, control, coercion, commodity production, and distribution. The use of iron collars by enslavers, in conjunction with chains, jails, the state penitentiary, and forced labor on municipal and state public works shows how technologies shaped enslaved peoples lives as they were captured, contained, and forced to be productive units of labor. By combining insights from scholarship in the fields of US slavery and technology, I argue that enslavers innovative uses of these technologies made the process of extracting labor from enslaved people more efficient and productive. By focusing on the punishing labor practices enslaved people endured in iron collars, jails, chain gangs, forced public works labor, and penitentiaries I show how the old and the new were used to "improve" enslaved people in order to keep them productive and profitable. In Chapter One, I examine the material experience of slaves wearing iron collars, including those with obstructions such as prongs, branches and bells. In Chapter Two, I examine the practices of incarceration in relationship to legislators' rhetoric about constructing a seamless economic circuit exploiting slave labor from plantation to prison factory in order to clothe an independent South. In Chapter Three, I examine how enslaved people who were either privately or publicly owned were used for to build and municipal and state infrastructure. State and city owned slaves, captured and jailed runaway slaves, and convicts from the state penitentiary labored to build roads, levees and clear rivers and bayous. Through these practices, enslaved people's lives embodied hard labor, blurring lines between enslavement and incarceration, as they were loaned, rented, borrowed, and bought, captured, and recaptured through spaces of punishment and labor in support of building and maintaining the infrastructure necessary for the production and distribution of commodities. Together, a range of technical practices were socially and economically shaped and produced through networks of people, objects, knowledge and ideology forming a socio-technical system for the control and containment of enslaved people as they struggled to be free. Advisors/Committee Members: Kline, Ronald R (chair), Seth, Suman (committee member), Baptist, Edward Eugene (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Slavery; Louisiana; Incarceration

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Thompson, D. (2014). Circuits Of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration And The Infrastructure Of Slavery. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36009

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Thompson, Darla. “Circuits Of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration And The Infrastructure Of Slavery.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36009.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Thompson, Darla. “Circuits Of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration And The Infrastructure Of Slavery.” 2014. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Thompson D. Circuits Of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration And The Infrastructure Of Slavery. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36009.

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Thompson D. Circuits Of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration And The Infrastructure Of Slavery. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/36009

10. Lee, Sujin. Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan.

Degree: PhD, History, 2017, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56840

► This dissertation aims to answer comprehensively the simple, yet significant question of why and how population became a political problem in interwar Japan (late 1910s… (more)

▼ This dissertation aims to answer comprehensively the simple, yet significant question of why and how population became a political problem in interwar Japan (late 1910s - late 1930s). During Japan’s interwar years, there was a growing call among social scientists, social reformers, and government elites to solve “population problem (jinkō mondai).” These Japanese intellectuals attributed the population problem in Mainland Japan (naichi) to a wide array of social ills including poverty, unemployment, and physical, mental, and moral degeneration, and considered various solutions to reform the Japanese population. The prevalence of this population discourse must be understood as an obvious symptom of the growing attention among contemporary Japanese intellectuals and bureaucrats to the population: the size and quality of the population became an object of knowledge and an objective of government. Moreover, the ambiguous, yet productive category of the Japanese population provides a revealing look at the complex social relations and colonial mobility in the Japanese Empire. This dissertation focuses on modern governmentality and imperialism that were embedded in the interwar discourse of the population problem. Using Michel Foucault’s conceptualization of discourse, I consider the population discourse to encompass different, or even conflicting agendas, languages, and movements that shaped and reshaped the population problem. The close reading of the arguments of different population discourses, including Neo-Malthusianism, the proletarian birth control and eugenics movement, feminist advocacy for voluntary motherhood, and the government's investigation into population problems, reveals the distinctive nature of Japan's interwar period in two senses: 1) a dynamic space where various discourses on population issues—particularly, birth control, eugenics, and population policy—continuously interwove sexual and biological issues with politico-economic ones; and 2) a crucial stage for reconstructing Japanese modernity through integrating scientific progressivism, social reformism, and imperial nationalism. In sum, in revisiting interwar Japan through the frames of governmentality and imperialism, my dissertation illuminates how the multiple discourses on population constituted and categorized desirable bodies to reproduce, and how these discourses intersected with modern subjectivities—namely, gender, nation, and class. Advisors/Committee Members: Sakai, Naoki (chair), Seth, Suman (committee member), Koschmann, Julien Victor (committee member), Hirano, Katsuya (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; Asian studies; birth control; eugenics; imperialism; Interwar Japan; population problem; Science history; biopolitics

…graduate students at Cornell University. Professors Brett De Bary, T.J. Hinrichs, Eric…

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APA (6^th Edition):

Lee, S. (2017). Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56840

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lee, Sujin. “Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56840.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lee, Sujin. “Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan.” 2017. Web. 17 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lee S. Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 17]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56840.

Council of Science Editors:

Lee S. Problematizing Population: Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics in Interwar Japan. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/56840

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