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Research Design In order to prepare an accurate account of the GMO moratorium in Peru this project will rely on multi-sited and macro ethnographic research methodologies. These strategies and techniques will each be theoretically informed by the feminist research qualities of reflexivity, positionality and reciprocity. The research goal will be to garner important opinions and perspectives from a myriad of stakeholders who are involved with the moratorium on GMOs—such as farmers, scientists,… Read More
Category: Odd & Ends Tags: agriculture, biotechnology, ethnography, ISU, macro, Master's Research, methodology, multi-sited, peru, risk society, social science, sociology, sociology of science, stevenson center, theory
Theoretical Foundations Certain theoretical frameworks or “currents of thought” (Schram 2006: 63) will inform this proposal and the eventual research that is to be completed in Peru. By beginning with a discussion of neoliberalism, the paper will present the political hegemony that dominates the following sections—governance, politics and science, and rural (often indigenous) lifeworlds. In other words, neoliberalism, and its ability to permeate into, and influence the myriad of spheres contained within… Read More
Category: Odd & Ends Tags: agriculture, environmental sociology, GMO, GMOs, Master's Research, neoliberalism, peru, risk society, social science, sociology, sociology of science, stevenson center, theory
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