Amy Lynn Fletcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Lynn Fletcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Fletcher |
| SIGNATURE | FLETCHER A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Memoriam
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De-Extinction and the Genomics Revolution
Politics and the Life Sciences
Some would argue there is a global movement afoot to study “biopolitics.” More and more scholarly reports that help shape our understanding of the political domain from this perspective are filling the pages of research journals. This is an important era of increasing scholarly interest in the intersection of the political and biological worlds and the rapidly evolving analytical innovations available to explore this still under-explored domain. …
Introduction to the Special Issue on Biotechnological Frontiers
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Competing meanings of “biopolitics”
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Genuine fakes
This case study of the Australian Museum's Thylacine Cloning Project analyzes a frame dispute that emerged during public communication of a scientific project, which lasted from 1999 to 2005, and was premised on the idea of resurrecting an extinct species. In choosing the Tasmanian tiger--an iconic Australian marsupial officially declared extinct in 1986--the promoters of the cloning project ensured extensive media coverage. However, the popular …
Clearing the air
Frame analysis illuminates the politics of climate change and generates ideas about discursive strategies that can assist national governments to take effective action on climate change. The nature of frame analysis and its links to discourse theory and social constructivist epistemology are discussed, and this framework used to show how climate change politics in the USA under the second Bush Presidency (2001–2008) have been viewed through at le…
Biobanks in action
In the United States, biomedical topics such as stem cell research and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis generate media coverage and controversy. Such issues can be placed within the highly salient frame of the abortion issue, ensuring that legislators and a large segment of the public will engage with them. However, despite the establishment of national biobanks in many European countries, the United States only recently initiated public consid…
Conservation Genetics and the Future of Extinction
Bring ‘Em back alive
Mendel's Ark
Amid the current biodiversity crisis and the ongoing threat of mass extinctions caused by modern anthropogenic factors such as industrialization, poaching and habitat destruction, conservation genetics provides tools (such as somatic-cell nuclear transfer) that could help to ensure the survival of species and ecosystems. Yet as conservation genetics shifts from the laboratory and scientific communities into mainstream awareness, numerous politica…
Field of genes
This case study of the Estonian Genome Project (EGP) analyses the Estonian policy decision to construct a national human gene bank. Drawing upon qualitative data from newspaper articles and public policy documents, it focuses on how proponents use discourse to link the EGP to the broader political goal of securing Estonia's position within the Western/European scientific and cultural space. This dominant narrative is then situated within the anal…
The Crisis of communication
This article compares videotext in France and the United States, the two advanced industrialized countries where videotext was the most and least successful, respectively, in order to demonstrate how videotext as a techno-political project foreshadows the explosive growth of the Internet as the dominant global communications platform. It draws upon the theory of network effects, in combination with a comparative analysis of both the institutional…
France enters the information age
National communication systems--while they serve a universal human need--do not follow a universal logic of development. Instead, networks emerge from the interaction of ideas, culture, and politics within specific national contexts. This article develops a culturally and politically grounded analysis of technology via an exploration of the videotex saga in France; the only large advanced industrialized state where videotex succeeded. Particular …
Technohistory
Reviewed by: Technohistory: Using the History of American Technology in Interdisciplinary Research * Amy L. Fletcher (bio) Technohistory: Using the History of American Technology in Interdisciplinary Research. Edited by Chris Hables Gray. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger, 1996. Pp. xvi+280; notes, bibliography, index. $24.50. This volume includes eleven articles, as well as an introduction by Carroll Pursell, an afterword by editor Chris Hables Gray, and a…
Technohistory
Clearing the air
Frame analysis illuminates the politics of climate change and generates ideas about discursive strategies that can assist national governments to take effective action on climate change. The nature of frame analysis and its links to discourse theory and social constructivist epistemology are discussed, and this framework used to show how climate change politics in the USA under the second Bush Presidency (2001–2008) have been viewed through at le…
Politics and the Life Sciences
Some would argue there is a global movement afoot to study “biopolitics.” More and more scholarly reports that help shape our understanding of the political domain from this perspective are filling the pages of research journals. This is an important era of increasing scholarly interest in the intersection of the political and biological worlds and the rapidly evolving analytical innovations available to explore this still under-explored domain. …
Bring ‘Em back alive
Genuine fakes
This case study of the Australian Museum's Thylacine Cloning Project analyzes a frame dispute that emerged during public communication of a scientific project, which lasted from 1999 to 2005, and was premised on the idea of resurrecting an extinct species. In choosing the Tasmanian tiger--an iconic Australian marsupial officially declared extinct in 1986--the promoters of the cloning project ensured extensive media coverage. However, the popular …
Mendel's Ark
Amid the current biodiversity crisis and the ongoing threat of mass extinctions caused by modern anthropogenic factors such as industrialization, poaching and habitat destruction, conservation genetics provides tools (such as somatic-cell nuclear transfer) that could help to ensure the survival of species and ecosystems. Yet as conservation genetics shifts from the laboratory and scientific communities into mainstream awareness, numerous politica…
Technohistory
Reviewed by: Technohistory: Using the History of American Technology in Interdisciplinary Research * Amy L. Fletcher (bio) Technohistory: Using the History of American Technology in Interdisciplinary Research. Edited by Chris Hables Gray. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger, 1996. Pp. xvi+280; notes, bibliography, index. $24.50. This volume includes eleven articles, as well as an introduction by Carroll Pursell, an afterword by editor Chris Hables Gray, and a…
Technohistory
France enters the information age
National communication systems--while they serve a universal human need--do not follow a universal logic of development. Instead, networks emerge from the interaction of ideas, culture, and politics within specific national contexts. This article develops a culturally and politically grounded analysis of technology via an exploration of the videotex saga in France; the only large advanced industrialized state where videotex succeeded. Particular …
The Crisis of communication
This article compares videotext in France and the United States, the two advanced industrialized countries where videotext was the most and least successful, respectively, in order to demonstrate how videotext as a techno-political project foreshadows the explosive growth of the Internet as the dominant global communications platform. It draws upon the theory of network effects, in combination with a comparative analysis of both the institutional…
Field of genes
This case study of the Estonian Genome Project (EGP) analyses the Estonian policy decision to construct a national human gene bank. Drawing upon qualitative data from newspaper articles and public policy documents, it focuses on how proponents use discourse to link the EGP to the broader political goal of securing Estonia's position within the Western/European scientific and cultural space. This dominant narrative is then situated within the anal…
Biobanks in action
In the United States, biomedical topics such as stem cell research and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis generate media coverage and controversy. Such issues can be placed within the highly salient frame of the abortion issue, ensuring that legislators and a large segment of the public will engage with them. However, despite the establishment of national biobanks in many European countries, the United States only recently initiated public consid…
Conservation Genetics and the Future of Extinction
Bring ‘Em back alive
Mendel's Ark
Amid the current biodiversity crisis and the ongoing threat of mass extinctions caused by modern anthropogenic factors such as industrialization, poaching and habitat destruction, conservation genetics provides tools (such as somatic-cell nuclear transfer) that could help to ensure the survival of species and ecosystems. Yet as conservation genetics shifts from the laboratory and scientific communities into mainstream awareness, numerous politica…
Clearing the air
Frame analysis illuminates the politics of climate change and generates ideas about discursive strategies that can assist national governments to take effective action on climate change. The nature of frame analysis and its links to discourse theory and social constructivist epistemology are discussed, and this framework used to show how climate change politics in the USA under the second Bush Presidency (2001–2008) have been viewed through at le…
Genuine fakes
This case study of the Australian Museum's Thylacine Cloning Project analyzes a frame dispute that emerged during public communication of a scientific project, which lasted from 1999 to 2005, and was premised on the idea of resurrecting an extinct species. In choosing the Tasmanian tiger--an iconic Australian marsupial officially declared extinct in 1986--the promoters of the cloning project ensured extensive media coverage. However, the popular …
Competing meanings of “biopolitics”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Introduction to the Special Issue on Biotechnological Frontiers
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Politics and the Life Sciences
Some would argue there is a global movement afoot to study “biopolitics.” More and more scholarly reports that help shape our understanding of the political domain from this perspective are filling the pages of research journals. This is an important era of increasing scholarly interest in the intersection of the political and biological worlds and the rapidly evolving analytical innovations available to explore this still under-explored domain. …
De-Extinction and the Genomics Revolution
In Memoriam
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