Reconstructing biotechnologies critical social analyses (Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2008)
Papers from conference held in Kyoto, Japan, on November 3-4, 2007. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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 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
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