Biotechnology and Empire
The Global Power of Seeds and Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheila Jasanoff (0000-0002-0488-8698, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 273-292 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/507145 |
| OpenAlex | W2079291502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 65 |
| References cited | 12 |
Following the cold war, interest has grown in the possible rise of new forms of imperial rule and in the likely role of science and technology in processes of global governance. In particular, just as the life sciences advanced the interests of bygone empires, so modern biotechnology is likely to support today’s transboundary exercises of political, economic, and cultural power. Drawing on analyses of large‐scale political and technological systems, this chapter suggests that contemporary biotechnology may be enrolled into empire‐making by several different means, including bottom‐up resistance, top‐down ideological imposition, administrative standardization, and consensual constitutionalism. At present, biotechnology seems more likely to increase the power of metropolitan centers of science and technology than that of people at the periphery. Institutional innovations will be needed to bring global biosciences and biotechnologies under effective democratic control
Biology · Constitutionalism · Corporate governance · Democracy · Economics · Empire · Ideology · Management · Metropolitan area · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Biotechnology and Related Fields · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering · History · Law
Recipe 2
Life in the Age of Biotechnology
Life Cycle of a Common Weed
Interlude
Recipe 3
R. A. W. Assmilk Soap
Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s Generations
Recipe 4
Recipe 1
The Politics of Evidence (Open Access)
Predictable policing
The decolonial turn in data and technology research
Blasted Landscapes (and the Gentle Arts of Mushroom Picking)
Invertebrate Visions
Hope in Blasted Landscapes
Apuntes para una ecología política de la integración en América Latina y el Caribe
Extremophile Microbes in Food and Agricultural Systems
Humanitarian Innovations and Material Returns
Digital Geopolitics and Technology Exports to Africa
A World of Standards but not a Standard World
Epistemic geographies of climate change
Genetic fallout in bio-cultural landscapes
Pharmaceutical prospects
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes
Sheila Jasanoff
Industrializing nature, knowledge, and labour
Biotech in Hong Kong
What Does Collaborative Event Ethnography Tell Us About Global Environmental Governance
The philanthropic-corporate-state complex
Drug partnerships and global practices
Environmental and Ecological Aspects in the Overall Assessment of Bioeconomy
GMOs and the Crisis of Objectivity
Imposing evenness, preventing combination
The Fluid Ubiquity of Food
The Insights of Radical Science in the CRISPR Gene-Editing Era
Endless Qualifications, Restless Consumption
Agricultural innovations for sustainability? Diverse pathways and plural perspectives on rice seeds in Odisha, India
Hope in blasted landscapes
Decolonising innovation in sustainability transitions for pluriversal justice and wellbeing
Introduction to the special issue Biology and Technology Reframed
State responses to biotechnology
The “soy-ization” of Argentina
In the interstice of health and economy
Model migrations
We Are Still Here
Power in the Age of Datafication
Creating Regulatory Harmony
A Human Right to Science
Time, transition, and planetary decolonial justice as invention
Agricultural adaptation strategies under Morales's administration
Cliquepolitik
Democratising Science? The Politics of Promoting Biomedicine in Singapore's Developmental State
Going South. How STS could think science in and with the South
Public participation and democratization
Organic regulation across the Atlantic
Risk Analysis of Nanomaterials
O que pensam os pequenos agricultores da Argentina sobre os cultivos geneticamente modificados
Drawing Bright Lines
Why Isn't Exploration a Science
Los halos de inhibición en la remediación de suelos amazónicos contaminados con petróleo
Banana Brokers
Les STS ont-elles un Sud
La reconfiguration du domaine de la lithotripsie extracorporelle
Biolegality
Join or be excluded from biomedicine? Joins and Post-colonial Korea
| Unique citing works | 65 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,61 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |