Open Source Agriculture
Grassroots Technology in the Digital Era
Authors: Giotitsas, Christos
Free Preview- Positions open source agriculture as a new social movement and technology theoryExamines open source agriculture through two case studiesApplies critical theory of technology to the wider discussion of the development model
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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.
- About the authors
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Chris Giotitsas is Researcher at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and a core member of the research collective P2P Lab. His work explores alternative trajectories of technological development through peer to peer practices and the commons.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-10
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How I Researched This
Pages 11-16
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Social Movements as Technology Developers
Pages 17-24
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Open Source Agriculture: A Social Movement?
Pages 25-68
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Technology Matters
Pages 69-85
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Open Source Agriculture
- Book Subtitle
- Grassroots Technology in the Digital Era
- Authors
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- Christos Giotitsas
- Series Title
- Palgrave Advances in Bioeconomy: Economics and Policies
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-29341-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-29341-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-29340-6
- Series ISSN
- 2524-5848
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 144
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics