Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Holmes, Matthew Robert"
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Bird Boxes and Sparrow Traps: The Technological Regulation of Avian Life in the United States
Holmes, Matthew Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-07)Only a few decades after its introduction to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, the house sparrow was considered a pest that drove away native birds. Its downfall is representative of a story familiar to ... -
ON THE COVER Invasive Sparrows and the American Bird Box
Holmes, Matthew Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)The cover image for this issue of Technology and Culture depicts how bird boxes became contested technologies in the United States. The early twentieth-century image shows a pair of house sparrows (Passer domesticus)— an ... -
A Parochial Approach: Colonial Entomology on the Plantations of Nineteenth-Century Sri Lanka
Holmes, Matthew Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07)The coffee plantations of late nineteenth-century Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) were rocked by a series of crises, including the appearance of numerous insect pests. Scholars have demonstrated that nineteenth-century ... -
Perspectives on biotechnology: Public and corporate narratives in the GM archives
Holmes, Matthew Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Societal Impact Statement The contentious debate over genetically modified (GM) crops in Britain has entered a new era following Brexit and the development of gene editing. At the same time, the events of the 1980s and ... -
A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870-1900
Holmes, Matthew Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Towards the end of the nineteenth century, British colonists in Jamaica became increasingly exasperated by the damage caused to their sugar plantations by rats. In 1872, a British planter attempted to solve this problem ... -
Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food
Holmes, Matthew Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-03)British biologist and science populariser J. B. S. Haldane was known as a contrarian, whose myriad ideas and beliefs would shift to oppose whomever he chose to argue with. Yet Haldane's support for synthetic food remained ...