Biotechnology and bio-hegemony in Uganda
Unraveling the social relations underpinning the promotion of genetically modified crops into new African markets
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2156997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew A Schnurr (0000-0001-7560-3437, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 639-658 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150.2013.814106 |
| OpenAlex | W2036464696 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 18 |
This paper aims to uncover the social relations used to promote genetically modified (GM) crops into new African markets. It unravels the network of corporate actors, development agencies, policy officials, and research scientists that support the unquestioned dominance of GM in Uganda, which houses one of the largest experimental program dedicated to agricultural biotechnology on the continent. Gramscian insights reveal how these constellations of power align to support biotechnology at the expense of other technological possibilities, and how this consensus maintains its position of dominance while remaining largely unquestioned and unchallenged
Agricultural biotechnology · Agriculture · Biology · Dominance (genetics · Economics · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Promotion (chess · Underpinning · Biotechnology and Related Fields · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering · Engineering · Genetically Modified Organisms Research · Biotechnology
Social Disputes over GMOs
Fields of contestation and contamination
African Green Revolution, food sovereignty and constrained livelihood choice in Mozambique
Regime resistance and accommodation
No one asks for a meal they’ve never eaten.” Or, do African farmers want genetically modified crops
Exploring national trajectories of organic agriculture in Africa. Comparing Benin and Uganda
If the change is going to happen it's not by us
Knowledge politics and the Bt cotton success narrative in Burkina Faso
GMOs and poverty
Seeds and places
Transnational Discursive Opportunities and Social Movement Risk Frames Opposing GMOs
Talking About Gene Drive in Uganda
Just Existing Is Resisting
Beyond the Genome
Banana Brokers
Peasant essentialism in GMO debates
Building an Alliance for Biotechnology in Africa
Limits to biofortification
Contested landscapes
Lost in Translation
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Is Bt Cotton a Pro‐Poor Technology? A Review and Critique of the Empirical Record
Business Strategy and International Environmental Governance
Globalization and the Governance of Biotechnology
GMOs and the Developing World
Can the Poor Help GM Crops? Technology, representation & cotton in the Makhathini flats, South Africa
Hegemony, consensus and Trilateralism
Breeding for insect-resistant cotton across imperial networks, 1924–1950
Inventing Makhathini
The dilemma of decontamination
Civil society and the political economy of GMO failures in Canada
Converging Networks and Clashing Stories
Exploring the Resilience of Bt Cotton's 'Pro-Poor Success Story
Bio-Hegemony
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |