Doctoral Dissertation Research: Rivers of Milk: Dairy Science, Environment, and Technopolitics of Food Infrastructures

博士论文研究：牛奶之河：乳制品科学、环境和食品基础设施的技术政治

• 批准号: 2240875
• 负责人: Projit Mukharji
• 金额: $ 1.58万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2240875&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Rivers; Milk

Over the last several decades human taste for and dependence on dairy has become a key area of concern in the debates about animal justice and the environment. This doctoral dissertation project analyses universalist accounts of cattle-led environmental degradation by highlighting how different actors–scientific experts and lay breeders, dairy farmers and milk traders, colonial bureaucrats and postcolonial politicians - conceptualized and connected dairy development with economic and political projects in colonial and post-colonial contexts between 1880-1970. These years constituted the peak of the British colonial military’s experiments with organizing the milk supply, and they also mark the beginning of the world’s largest dairy development program. By investigating knowledge production about cattle, fodder, and milk, this project asks three broad questions: 1) what values, politics and concerns drove scientific experiments and public anxiety with purity, productivity, and the health of milk and the livestock 2) what role did the politics of race and caste play in the material organization of dairy infrastructures? and finally, 3) how did dairy development projects affect the cattle, cattle herders and pastoralists, and urban and rural environments?This project applies historical and qualitative methods to archival material. Sources include popular and scientific journals and outlets that focused on animal husbandry, dairying, and agriculture as well as archival sources that focus on policies related to dairying and dairy development in the twentieth century. By foregrounding knowledge production about milk and cattle as a highly contested political and social process, this project connects critical scholarship on science and technology with histories of food, environment, caste, and race.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在过去的几十年中，人类对乳制品的品味和对乳制品的依赖已成为有关动物正义和环境的辩论中关注的关键领域。该博士论文项目通过强调不同的参与者，科学专家和繁殖者，奶农和牛奶贸易商，殖民地Murthascends和后殖民主义的政治学家如何概念化并与殖民地和政治上的政治项目相互联系，从而分析了牛领导的环境退化的普遍主义叙述。这些年来，英国殖民军队在组织牛奶供应方面进行了高峰，它们也标志着世界上最大的奶牛开发计划的开始。通过调查有关牛，饲料和牛奶的知识生产，该项目提出了三个广泛的问题：1）哪些价值观，政治和关注使科学实验和公众焦虑以纯洁，生产力和牛奶的健康和牲畜的健康以及牲畜的健康以及种族的政治人物和种姓的政治作用在奶业基础结构的物质组织中起着什么作用？最后，3）乳制品开发项目如何影响牛，牛群和牧师，以及城市和粗糙的环境？该项目将历史和定性方法应用于档案材料。资料来源包括流行的和科学期刊和渠道，这些期刊和媒体集中在畜牧业，乳制品和同意以及档案资源上，以及关注20世纪与乳制品和乳制品开发有关的政策。通过将有关牛奶和牛作为激烈争议的政治和社会过程的知识生产，该项目将有关科学和技术的关键科学与粮食，环境，种姓和种族的历史联系起来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来支持的。