[Sci-tech-public] STS Special Lecture: Clapperton Mavhunga, Feb 25 @ 4 pm-CANCELLED

[Sarah Fowler]

Please note this lecture has been cancelled.

Sarah Fowler
Assistant to the Director
MIT
Science, Technology and Society
617-253-3452
sfowler at mit.edu

 

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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