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

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>Please join us this afternoon
>
>STS Special Lecture
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>FORCE MULTIPLIERS
>'Pest Control' and the Origins of Rhodesia's Biological and Chemical 
>Warfare Against Zimbabwean Nationalist Guerrillas, c. 1890-1980
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>Clapperton Mavhunga
>University of Michigan
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>4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
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>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.
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>Debbie Meinbresse
>STS Program, MIT
>617-452-2390

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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