Materials
Relevant Additional Readings:
| Bilger, Burkhard. Annals of Invention, “Hearth Surgery,” The New Yorker, December 21, 2009, p. 84 [download pdf] – a recent account of the “appropriate technologies” movement and to the ongoing development of cook stoves in particular. |
| Brazil: Skidmore (2004) Brazil’s Persistent Income Inequality: Lessons from History |
| Mexico: Chisthi and Bergeron (2008) Virtual Border Fence Given Mixed Assessment |
| South Africa: Bowker and Star (1999) “The Case of Race Classification and Reclassification Under Apartheid,” in Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences |
| China: Chan and Zhang (1999) The Hukou System and Rural-Urban Migration in China: Processes and Changes |
| China: Breslin (2004) Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: the Public, the Private, the International |
| Additional material on the Green Revolution – Biology 301, Oregon State University. |
| da Costa Marques, I. (2005). “Cloning Computers: From Rights of Possession to Rights of Creation.” Science as Culture 14(2): 139-160. [download pdf] – on Brazil’s Mac da Periferia – Mac of the periphery (from the institutional approaches to poverty lecture) |
| Liang, L. (2010) “Access Beyond Developmentalism: Technology and the Intellectual Life of the Poor.” ITID, 6: 65-67. [download pdf] – thinking broadly about the needs/interests of the poor. |