Reconstructing Biotechnologies: Critical Social Analyses

Preface......Page 8
Table of contents......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
Part I. The politics of biotechnology......Page 28
Tailoring biotechnologies: a manifesto......Page 30
Local activism and the ‘biotechnology project’......Page 60
Part II. Opposition and participation......Page 78
Tidy back yards or global justice? Types of rural GMO opposition in Austria and France and their wider implications......Page 80
Democratising agri-biotechnology? European public participation in agbiotech assessment......Page 98
Part III. Potentialities of reconstruction: critical reflections......Page 118
First the peasant? Some reflections on modernity, technology and reconstruction......Page 120
Reconsidering agricultural modernisation: three dimensions of questioning and redesigning biotechnologies for international agricultural development......Page 144
Ethicization of biotechnology research,politicisation of biotechnology ethics......Page 166
Part IV. Quality agriculture and networks......Page 184
European quality agriculture as an alternative bio-economy......Page 186
Agriculture, food and design: new food networks for a distributed economy......Page 208
Quality agriculture and the issue of technology: a short note on reconstruction......Page 218
Communic(e)ating: communication and the social embedding of food......Page 230
Part V. Potentialities of reconstruction: cases......Page 244
Risk, rights, and regulation: the politics of agricultural biotechnology in South Africa......Page 246
Biotechnology policy: the myth and reality in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 270
Reconstructing agro-biotechnologies in Tanzania: smallholder farmers perspective......Page 284
Part VI. Regulating technologies......Page 300
Recoding life in common: a critical approach of post-nature......Page 302
The wiki way: prefiguring change, practicing democracy......Page 328
Tailoring rights regimes in biotechnology: introducing DRIPS next to TRIPS......Page 346
About the authors......Page 358
Index......Page 362