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Traces the growth of capital-intensive farming around the world, alongside histories of colonialism and resistance, with a focus on Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific. Students will combine approaches from environmental history, labor history, science and technology studies, and the history of capitalism to explore sites of agricultural production: fields, farms, factories for fertilizers and pesticides, and mines for crucial inputs. Throughout, we will ask how our narratives of food production change when we center marginalized communities, and we will explore how decolonial approaches allow us to imagine new futures.