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    1. Innovating conservation agriculture: the case of no-till cropping

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Coughenour, C. Milton (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2003
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18391
    Journal Title:
    Rural Sociology
    Journal Title Details:
    68(2) : 278-304
    Notes:
    "The argument advanced here is that actor-network theory is useful in analyzing conservation agriculture as a radically different agriculture: a new paradigm with new beliefs about soils, plants, and environment, and farmers themselves as well as new crop production systems."

    2. Social theory and the de/reconstruction of agricultural science : local knowledge for an alternative agriculture

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kloppenburg, Jack, Jr. (author / Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI) and Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    1991
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06474
    Journal Title:
    Rural Sociology
    Journal Title Details:
    56 (4) : 519-548
    Notes:
    James F. Evans Collection, As a result of environmental and agrarian activism and of academic critique, a substantial amount of space is available now for moving agricultural technoscience onto new trajectories. A critical rural sociology has played a key role in pushing forward the deconstructive project that has been instrumental in creating this space. And rural sociologists can be active agents in the reconstruction of the alternative science that must emerge from "actually existing" science and that must be developed if there is to be a truly alternative agriculture. But to be effective in this effort we need to enlarge not only the canon of our colleagues in the natural sciences, but our own canon as well. This article suggests that the theoretical resources for such reconstruction are available in contemporary sociological and feminist interpretations of science. Material resources for the reconstruction of a "successor science" are to be found in the "local knowledge" that is continually produced and reproduced by farmers and agricultural workers. Articulations and complementarities between theoretical resources are suggested and potentially productive research areas are outlined. (original)