From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt

This study traces the history of how farmers have used technologies from the eighteenth century to the present to form identities, not simply as ways of making greater economic profits. Using technologies becomes a way to 'perform' a person's sense of him or herself. This insight se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brinkman, Joshua
Other Authors: Science and Technology Studies
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81991