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