Seeds, Science, and Struggle
The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398169 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abby Kinchy (0000-0001-5296-482X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 240 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Seeds, Science, and Struggle (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7551/mitpress/9099.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4245528072 |
| Open Library | OL29664564M |
| ISBN | 9780262305570 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 74 |
An examination of how advocates for alternative agriculture confront “science-based” regulation of genetically engineered crops. Genetic engineering has a wide range of cultural, economic, and ethical implications, yet it has become almost an article of faith that regulatory decisions about biotechnology be based only on evidence of specific quantifiable risks; to consider anything else is said to “politicize” regulation. In this study of social protest against genetically engineered food, Abby Kinchy turns the conventional argument on its head. Rather than consider politicization of the regulatory system, she takes a close look at the scientization of public debate about the “contamination” of crops resulting from pollen drift and seed mixing. Advocates of alternative agriculture confront the scientization of this debate by calling on international experts, carrying out their own research, questioning regulatory science in court, building alternative markets, and demanding that their governments consider the social and economic impacts of the new technologies. Kinchy focuses on social conflicts over canola in Canada and maize in Mexico, drawing out their linkages to the global food system and international environmental governance. The book ultimately demonstrates the shortcomings of dominant models of scientific risk governance, which marginalize alternative visions of rural livelihoods and sustainable food production.
Agricultural biotechnology · Agriculture · Argument (complex analysis) · Biology · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental ethics · Faith · Geography · Livelihood · Management · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Vision · Genetically Modified Organisms Research · Genetic engineering · Transgenic plants
Co-producing uncomfortable, transdisciplinary, actionable knowledges against the corporate food regime through critical science approaches
Creating food commons
How a Legal Fight Against Monsanto Became an Indigenous Self-determination Claim in Mexico
Contested Imaginaries of Biotechnology Governance in Guatemala
Social Disputes over GMOs
Territorializando STS
Porousness and Peru’s moratorium on genetically modified organisms
Through a maze of studies
Manufacturing a natural advantage
Exposing infrastructure
Power to the people
The sticky materiality of neo-liberal neonatures
Ratcheting up protective regulations in the shadow of the WTO
Knowledge Justice
Citizen Science in Post-Fukushima Japan
Publics as Threats? Integrating Science and Technology Studies and Social Movement Studies
Big Tech Meets Big Ag
Pedagogies for seed sovereignty in Colombia
Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries for gene edited crops for foods in the United States
Scientific boundary work and food regime transitions
Biotechnology activism is dead; long live biotechnology activism! The lure and legacy of market-based food movement strategies
Safely poisoned
Engaging the complexities of community
Non-stick science
Zapatista corn
When citizen science is public relations
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture
Defining and defending risk
Seed exchange networks and food system resilience in the United States
Introduction
Responsible to whom? Seed innovations and the corporatization of agriculture
Social license and synthetic biology
The promise and perils of produced waters
The War between Amaranth and Soy
Regular Soybeans
Constructing counter imaginaries
Genetic fallout in bio-cultural landscapes
Gene-Edited Food Adoption Intentions and Institutional Trust in the United States
Democratizing CRISPR? Stories, practices, and politics of science and governance on the agricultural gene editing frontier
Toward thick legitimacy
Transnational Plants, Nationalist Frames
Control
Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union
Trade-offs versus reassurance
Abby Kinchy, Seeds, Science, and Struggle
Reflecting on the Science in Science Communication
The Deadlock in European Decision-Making on GMOs as a Wicked Problem by Design
The Formation of Territories Free of Transgenics
Between Regulation and Practice
Delivering Bacteriology to the American Homemaker
When experimentalist governance meets science‐based regulations; the case of food safety regulations
Producing Ignorance Through Regulatory Structure
Defending the Commons
Justice and Tyranny
Frankenfish or Fish to Feed the World? Scientism and Biotechnology Regulatory Policy
Peasant essentialism in GMO debates
The authority of rules in Chile's contentious environmental politics
Opposing the opposition? Binarity and complexity in political resistance
Strongly Participatory Science and Knowledge Justice in an Environmentally Contested Region
Outsourcing Regulatory Decision-making
Creating Regulatory Harmony
Dimensions of Power in Regulatory Regime Selection
Citizen science and social movements
Constructing the rational actor
Social mobilizations and relations of power surrounding the entry of genetic engineered organisms
We don't know much about Bees!' Techno-Optimism, Techno-Scepticism, and Denial in the American large-scale Beekeeping Industry
Taxonomy, Race Science, and Mexican Maize
Taking Monsanto to court
Seed sovereignty as decommodification
Resistencias epistémico-políticas frente a la privatización de las semillas y los saberes colectivos
Global Ethnography and Genetically Modified Crops in Argentina
Global Capitalism and the Nation State in the Struggles over GM Crops in Brazil
Genetically modified crops and seed/food sovereignty in Argentina
Genetically modified soybeans, agrochemical exposure, and everyday forms of peasant collaboration in Argentina
| Unique citing works | 74 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 73 |