First the Seed
The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10029668 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel J Kevles (0009-0007-3978-9351, California Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Jack Ralph Kloppenburg |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 578-578 |
| Publication date | 1989-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, Jack Kloppenburg, 2005 |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1908006 |
| OpenAlex | W2569873730 |
| Language | EN |
Journal Article First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492–2000. By Jack Ralph Kloppenburg Jr. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xviii + 349 pp. $37.50.) Get access Daniel J. Kevles Daniel J. Kevles California Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Page 578, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908006 Published: 01 September 1989
Economic history · Library science · Political science · Politics · Genetically Modified Organisms Research · History · Law
Dimensions of Power in Regulatory Regime Selection
Dilemmas of protection
The Crisis of Transcendent Values
The Environmental and Post-Environmental Politics of Genetically Modified Crops and Foods
Criminalized crops
From Commons to Commodities
Biodiversity, ownership, and indigenous knowledge
Atoms for feeding
Contradictions in the Last Mile
War on Weeds
Making Meat
The Perfect Solution
Taming Trees
Political Ecology and the Geography of Science
The Wealth of Networks
Enacting Authenticity: Changing Ontologies of Biological Entities
Agricultural Sciences and Technology
Science, Sociology of
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Pimping Climate Change
Environmental Crises and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective
What Causes Poverty
Genetic Engineering as a Social Problem
Social Disputes over GMOs
Encyclopedia of sociology
Untangling Context
Seed Geographies as Body Politics in Paraguay
Biopolitics and Population Aesthetics
The Survival and Revival of Nonwage Labour in a Global Economy
Farmers who tinker
Neoliberalism, the University, Public Goods and Agricultural Innovation
The Heirloom Tomato as Cultural Object
Changing Foundations for Government Support of Agricultural Extension in Economically Developed Countries
Implicit Sociology, Interdisciplinarity and Systems Theories in Agricultural Science
Antiscience Zealotry”? Values, Epistemic Risk, and the GMO Debate
The global knowledge encounter
The Practical Politics of Knowing
Sovereignty, Risk and Biotechnology
Property Rights for Biodiversity Conservation and Development
Subverting Regulatory Protection of 'Natural Commodities
Humus gnosis
Having or Doing Intellectual Property Rights? Transgenic Seed on the Edge between Refeudalisation and Napsterisation
Information and culture as commodity
Experimental By Nature
Alternatives to Pesticides in Central America
The Economic Botany of Organic Cotton Farms In Telangana, India
Response to Michael Cernea
The art of rent
The use of agrobiodiversity for plant improvement and the intellectual property paradigm
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
Holding on to and letting go of seed
Ayahuasca healing beyond the Amazon
Materialized ideology and environmental problems
Playing development roles
Shifting Tenses
Introduction
The Ambiguous Promise of Biotechnology
The 'brother layer problem
Politics of Knowledge in Development
The biodiversity of food and agriculture (Agrobiodiversity) in the anthropocene
Innovation as if people mattered
From "Genetic Resources" to "Ecosystems Services
Seed Banking as Cryopower
Actor-Networks, Farmer Decisions, and Identity
Towards a General Theory of Agricultural Knowledge Production
Fitomejoramiento y racionalidad social
Science, Agriculture and the Politics of Policy
The Red de Semillas Libres
Challenging Agroecology-Promise and Pitfalls for Agrarian Studies
Seeds of accumulation
Impeding Dispossession, Enabling Repossession
Building an Alliance for Biotechnology in Africa
Genetics and livestock breeding in the UK
From garden biotech to garage biotech
Unpacking Frame Resonance
The age of greenwashing∗
Political ecology
Species of Biocapital
Protecting Traditional Knowledge Holders' Interests and Preventing Misappropriation-Traditional Knowledge Commons and Biocultural Protocols
Recovering res communis from res propia
Seed activism on four fronts
Analyzing abstraction in critical agri-food studies and computer science
From cow sense to data sense
Historical transitions of seed breeding in China
Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature
Beating the bounds
Seed laws, certification and standardization
The Long Green Revolution
Stealing into the wild
The imperial maize assemblage
Hybrid Realities
A food regime genealogy
The ox fall down
Modified landscapes
Local seed systems and Global China
Genetically modified crops and seed/food sovereignty in Argentina
Global pesticide complex
The 'state' of food sovereignty in Latin America
State food security and people’s food sovereignty
Biotechnology and University‐industry Relations
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |