Risky Discourses
The Politics of GM Foods
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4328902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Corinne Wales, Gabe Mythen (0000-0002-6528-9031) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 121-144 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/714000604 |
| OpenAlex | W2163330675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 11 |
Risk is a category that has been filled by the contingency of history; it is a way of structuring reality and rendering it intelligible. In western societies, risk has traditionally been identified and defined by a phalanx of social institutions, which have constituted the dominant 'relations of definition' (Beck, 1995). Despite the expansion of 'expert' methods of risk assessment, in recent times, a series of cases of institutional mismanagement - the BSE crisis being the most notorious - have thrown into doubt the ability of expert systems to effectively identify and mitigate social risks. In the last decade, the hegemonic relations of risk definition have increasingly been challenged by a plethora of subaltern discourses, which have emerged from civil society. These discourses have forced an institutional reflexivity that acknowledges the need for greater participatory equality in risk characterisation. However, drawing on the ongoing debate about GM foods, we argue in this paper that there are particular technologies of government which limit the democratisation of risk definition in contemporary western society
Environmental ethics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Philosophy
Consumer Activism, EU Institutions and Global Markets
‘A grim health future’
A reflexive look at reflexivity in environmental sociology
Sociology and the Art of Risk
Communicating the terrorist risk
Mobilization in the European Public Sphere
Reframing risk? Citizen journalism and the transformation of news
Ecological modernization versus sustainable development
We stand in the Luddite legacy”
‘Underneath the shirt or the scarf is an ordinary person’
More politics, stronger consumers? A new division of responsibility for food in the European Union
Crime, Bio-Agriculture and the Exploitation of Hunger
Green Political Theory and the European Union
Contestations over risk expertise, definitions and insecurities
Agency, reflexivity and risk
Heteroglossic Representations of Scientific Uncertainty
Modelo regulatório da liberação comercial de plantas geneticamente modificadas no Brasil
Employment, Individualization and Insecurity
O conceito de biossegurança à luz da ciência pós-normal
From 'Goods' to 'Bads'? Revisiting the Political Economy of Risk
What Shapes Corporate Involvement in Voter Referendums? The Case of Opposition to GM Food Labeling
Lay discourses and beliefs related to food risks
Ecological politics in an age of risk
Risk Society
May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert–Lay Knowledge Divide
Risk, calculable and incalculable
Globalization and Culture
Questions of Method
Communicating Risks to the Public
Michel Foucault
Austria
Genetically modified crops in the European Union
Are ethical conflicts irreconcilable
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |