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OverviewFor decades, government, industry, and the mainstream media have extolled the virtues of biotechnology, downplaying its negative side effects and claiming that it can improve everything from our health and diet to our environment and economy. Focusing on agricultural biotechnology, Resistance Is Fertile challenges this dominant rhetoric by offering a critical analysis of the role of capital and the state in the development of this technoscience. Wilhelm Peekhaus analyzes the major issues around which opponents of agricultural biotechnology in Canada are mobilizing resistance – namely, the enclosure of the biological commons and the knowledge commons, which together form the BioCommons. What emerges is an empirically and theoretically informed analysis of topics such as Canada’s regulatory regime, the corporate control of seeds, the intellectual property system, and attempts to construct and control public discussions about agricultural biotechnology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wilhelm PeekhausPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9780774823104ISBN 10: 0774823100 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 01 April 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Canadian Biotechnology Policy and Its Critics 2 Enclosure and Resistance on the BioCommons 3 Battles to Reclaim and Maintain the BioCommons 4 Intellectual Property Rights: Facilitating Capital’s Command over Biotechnology 5 Regulatory Capture and Its Critics 6 Capture and Control of Biotechnology Discourse in Canada Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationWilhelm Peekhaus is an assistant professor at the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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