Building Participatory Knowledge Infrastructure Against the GMO Agribusiness Regime: The Case of Los Campamentos Sanitarios

From 2010 to 2019, Argentinian medical students and faculty at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario worked with allies from grassroots movements routinize new epidemiological data collection practices designed call students’ attention public health consequences of industrial agriculture’s indiscriminate use pesticides. This paper charts rise fall their collective efforts institutionalize participatory knowledge pedagogy that directly challenged political legitimacy agriculture. We anchor our study in a trio concepts—sociotechnical regime, niche, network—using these tools describe dynamic interplay among dominant subordinate systems. Our analysis reveals radical projects cannot be understood without reference historical institutional contexts structure opportunities constraints within which research is developed, implemented, sustained.