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Record Nr.

UNINA9910357824603321

Autore

Giotitsas Chris

Titolo

Open Source Agriculture : Grassroots Technology in the Digital Era / / by Chris Giotitsas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019

ISBN

9783030293413

3030293416

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Advances in Bioeconomy: Economics and Policies, , 2524-5856

Disciplina

338.16

338.1

Soggetti

Social choice

Welfare economics

Development economics

Agriculture - Economic aspects

Environmental economics

Social Choice and Welfare

Development Economics

Agricultural Economics

Environmental Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. How I Researched This -- 3. Social Movements as Technology Developers -- 4. Open Source Agriculture: A Social Movement? -- 5. Technology Matters -- 6. Open Source Agriculture: An Alternative Technological Trajectory? -- 7. Beyond Open Source Agriculture.

Sommario/riassunto

This Palgrave Pivot employs the concept of open source agriculture as a new social movement, which not only advocates a specific agenda but also creates technological products under a unique technology development model. The book brings together social movement and technology theory to examine it through two in-depth case studies of open source agricultural communities. This allows for the tracing of



values and interests coded within the technological artefacts the communities produce as well as their development processes. Critical theory of technology is further applied to examine the broader political economy of the development model. .