Biopolitics A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology
Heftet /
1995
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781856493369
Publisert
1995-09-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Zed Books Ltd
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304
Biographical note
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and campaigner. She won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993, and the Earth Day Award. In India she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Her numerous influential books include Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (Zed), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed) and Monocultures of the Mind (Zed).Ingunn Moser teaches at the Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Oslo.
Biotechnology is the single most powerful bundle of new technologies currently under development. It is also the most intrusive and determinative technology relating to nature generally and the human body specifically. This Reader brings together some of the most important work from feminists and environmentalists critical of the headlong rush into what is likely to prove a technological minefield. As such it will be essential reading for students, scholars and activists in social studies of science, women's studies, development and environmental studies.
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This reader assembles critiques of biotechnology.
ForewordPrefaceList of Contributors1. Introduction: Mobilizing Critical Communities and Discourses on Modern Biotechnology - Ingunn MoserPart I: Biotechnology as Culture: (Re)constructions of Biology and Nature2. Human Nature - Ruth Hubbard3. Genes as Causes - Ruth Hubbard4. Fractured Images of Science, Language and Power: A Post-Modern Optic, or Just Bad Eyesight? - Evelyn Fox Keller5. Otherworldly Conversations, Terrain Topics, Local Terms - Donna HarawayPart II: Biohazards: Risk in Context6. The Limits of Experimental Knowledge: A Feminist Perspective on the Ecological Risks of Genetic Engineering - Regine Kollek7. Error-Friendliness and the Evolutionary Impact of Deliberate Release of GMOs - Christine von Weizsacker8. The Greening of Biotechnology: GMOs as Environment-Friendly Products - Les Levidow and Joyce TaitPart III: Bioethics, Knowledge, and Ethics as Politics9. Biosemiotics and Ethics - Jesper Hoffmeyer10. A 'Genethics' that Makes Sense - Rosalyn Diprose11. Whose Ethics for Agricultural Biotechnology? - Les LevidowPart IV: Biopolitics: The Political Ecology of Biotechnology12. Biotechnological Development and the Conservation of Biodiversity - Vandana Shiva13. Biotechnology, Patents and the Third World - Cary Fowler14. Biotechnology and the Future of Agriculture - Nicanor Perlas16. Epilogue: Beyond Redcutionism - Vandana ShivaGlossaryA Select Guide to Further ReadingIndex
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781856493369
Publisert
1995-09-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Zed Books Ltd
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304
Biographical note
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and campaigner. She won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993, and the Earth Day Award. In India she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Her numerous influential books include Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (Zed), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed) and Monocultures of the Mind (Zed).Ingunn Moser teaches at the Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Oslo.