Biotechnology and the Politics of Plants: Disciplining Time

ISBN-13: 9781138314528 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 130 str.

MATTHEW HODGES

Opis

Explores the mysterious phenomenon of ‘apomixis’, the ability of some plants to ‘self-clone’, and its revolutionary potential in agriculture. Through historical anthropological and ethnographic study, Hodgest traces the development of the CIMMYT Apomixis Project and its reinvention as a public-private partnership.

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Spis treści

1. The politics of emergence  2. The quest for apomictic maize at CIMMYT  3. Disciplining time within ApoCORN  4. Epilogue

O autorze

Matt Hodges is a social and historical anthropologist based at the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent, UK. He works on the anthropology of science and technology, and themes of history, time, and the experience of cultural transformation and rupture in rural Europe. This focus extends to the technologies and infrastructures that drive such upheavals, including agricultural biotechnology. Recent work on French radical historiography appeared in Current Anthropology 60(3).