Title: Glossary
Course: HUM 299 Environmental Humanities > Section: HUM 299 Environmental Humanities

Glossary

Terms

Term | Definitions
Agrarianism | as Wendell Berry champions it, an agrarian as opposed to industrialist approach to farming conceives the land as a living thing. As Berry puts it, “agrarian farming is the proper use and care of ...
Technology treadmill | as part of postcolonial critiques of development theory and practices, the image of a treadmill captures the concern that productivity-enhancing technologies inevitably hurt the poor and concent ...
Transgenic crops | scientists have spliced genes from other organisms into traditional crops with the goals of increasing yield, nutritional value, and resistance to pests or pesticides.