ISBN:
9789086866397
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (367 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Reconstructing biotechnologies
DDC:
306.46
Keywords:
Chemical engineering Congresses Social aspects
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Biotechnology -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Chemical engineering -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Biotechnology Congresses Social aspects
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Biotechnology Social aspects
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
The main subject of this publication is the co-creation of society and biotechnology. The authors do not treat society and biotechnology as separate domains, instead they consider technologies as socially constructed. The main focus of this publication is on agro-biotechnologies and the contributors present perspectives for reconstruction both from and in 'the North' and 'the South'. Reconstructing biotechnologies offers a range of critical social analyses confronting the actuality of biotechnology with the potentialities of its social reconstruction. In doing that, the book develops and merges literature from four different disciplines, namely (i) critical theory and its analyses of technology and power, (ii) political economy, critically assessing the interrelationship between economy, politics and technology, (iii) social constructivism, which holds that technology is the product of agency and knowledge systems, and (iv) the analysis of rural society and agrarian technologies in rural sociology.Reconstructing biotechnologies introduces exciting approaches and examples into the social reshaping of biotechnologies. It brings together critical examinations of contemporary biotechnology development and puts forward possible alternatives written by critical scholars. The contributions in this publication are for students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines such as social and political sciences, science and technology studies, and development studies.The editors of the book are associated with the Social Sciences Department of Wageningen University in the Netherlands and the Graduate School of Economics of Kyoto University in Japan. They have published extensively on social and political theory and biotechnology
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The politics of biotechnology -- Tailoring biotechnologies: a manifesto -- Local activism and the 'biotechnology project' -- Part II. Opposition and participation -- Tidy back yards or global justice? Types of rural GMO opposition in Austria and France and their wider implications -- Democratising agri-biotechnology? European public participation in agbiotech assessment -- Part III. Potentialities of reconstruction: critical reflections -- First the peasant? Some reflections on modernity, technology and reconstruction -- Reconsidering agricultural modernisation: three dimensions of questioning and redesigning biotechnologies for international agricultural development -- Ethicization of biotechnology research,politicisation of biotechnology ethics -- Part IV. Quality agriculture and networks -- European quality agriculture as an alternative bio-economy -- Agriculture, food and design: new food networks for a distributed economy -- Quality agriculture and the issue of technology: a short note on reconstruction -- Communic(e)ating: communication and the social embedding of food -- Part V. Potentialities of reconstruction: cases -- Risk, rights, and regulation: the politics of agricultural biotechnology in South Africa -- Biotechnology policy: the myth and reality in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Reconstructing agro-biotechnologies in Tanzania: smallholder farmers perspective -- Part VI. Regulating technologies -- Recoding life in common: a critical approach of post-nature -- The wiki way: prefiguring change, practicing democracy -- Tailoring rights regimes in biotechnology: introducing DRIPS next to TRIPS -- About the authors -- Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Table of contents; Introduction; Part I. The politics of biotechnology; Tailoring biotechnologies: a manifesto; Local activism and the 'biotechnology project'; Part II. Opposition and participation; Tidy back yards or global justice? Types of rural GMO opposition in Austria and France and their wider implications; Democratising agri-biotechnology? European public participation in agbiotech assessment; Part III. Potentialities of reconstruction: critical reflections; First the peasant? Some reflections on modernity, technology and reconstruction
Description / Table of Contents:
Reconsidering agricultural modernisation: three dimensions of questioning and redesigning biotechnologies for international agricultural developmentEthicization of biotechnology research,politicisation of biotechnology ethics; Part IV. Quality agriculture and networks; European quality agriculture as an alternative bio-economy; Agriculture, food and design: new food networks for a distributed economy; Quality agriculture and the issue of technology: a short note on reconstruction; Communic(e)ating: communication and the social embedding of food; Part V. Potentialities of reconstruction: cases
Description / Table of Contents:
Risk, rights, and regulation: the politics of agricultural biotechnology in South AfricaBiotechnology policy: the myth and reality in Sub-Saharan Africa; Reconstructing agro-biotechnologies in Tanzania: smallholder farmers perspective; Part VI. Regulating technologies; Recoding life in common: a critical approach of post-nature; The wiki way: prefiguring change, practicing democracy; Tailoring rights regimes in biotechnology: introducing DRIPS next to TRIPS; About the authors; Index
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English
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10.3920/978-90-8686-639-7
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