Vanishing Bees - Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health

Takes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Drawing from extensive interviews and first-hand observations, Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman examine how members of each group have acquired, disseminated, and evaluated knowledge about CCD.

List of contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
 

Introduction
 

1 Knowing with Their Eyes? Beekeepers’ Understandings of CCD
 

2 Keeping the Research Disciplined: Entomological Understandings of the Controversy over Insecticides
 

3 Bees under the Treadmill of Agriculture: Growers’ Responses to Bee Decline
 

4 The Bottom-line for Bayer: Agrochemical Companies and ‘Bee Care’
 

5 Regulating Knowledge: The EPA and Pesticide Standards

Coda

Notes

Reference List

Index

About the author

SAINATH SURYANARAYANAN is an assistant scientist of biology and society in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and in the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

DANIEL LEE KLEINMAN is an associate dean of the Graduate School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology.  He is the author, editor, or coeditor of numerous books, including Impure Cultures: University Biology and the World of Commerce.

Summary

Takes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Drawing from extensive interviews and first-hand observations, Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman examine how members of each group have acquired, disseminated, and evaluated knowledge about CCD.

Product details

Authors	Daniel Lee Kleinman, Sainath Suryanarayanan, Sainath Kleinman Suryanarayanan, Sainath/ Kleinman Suryanarayanan
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	30.11.2016
EAN	9780813574585
ISBN	978-0-8135-7458-5
No. of pages	176
Series	Nature, Society, and Culture; Nature, Society, and Culture
Subjects	Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Lee Kleinman, Sainath Suryanarayanan, Sainath Kleinman Suryanarayanan, Sainath/ Kleinman Suryanarayanan
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780813574585
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-7458-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Nature, Society, and Culture; Nature, Society, and Culture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)