<html>
<body>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><b>Please join us this
afternoon</b><br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=4><b>STS Special Lecture<br><br>
</font><font size=5 color="#0000FF">FORCE MULTIPLIERS <br>
</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF">'Pest Control' and the Origins of
Rhodesia's Biological and Chemical Warfare Against Zimbabwean Nationalist
Guerrillas, c. 1890-1980<br><br>
</font><font size=5>Clapperton Mavhunga<br>
</font><font size=4>University of Michigan<br><br>
</font><font size=5>4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095<br><br>
</b></font></div>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>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.<br><br>
<br><br>
</font>Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390</blockquote>
<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
</body>
</html>