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Disrupting Maize: Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico
- Author(s):
- Gabriela Méndez Cota (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- Environmental Humanities, Feminist Humanities, Global & Transnational Studies
- Subject(s):
- Technology--Philosophy, Mass media and war, Feminist criticism, Technology--Study and teaching, Nationalism--Study and teaching, Neoliberalism, Mexico, History
- Item Type:
- Book
- Tag(s):
- technophobia, technological determinism, GMO, Philosophy of technology, Media and conflict, Feminist critique, Technology studies, Nationalism studies, Mexican history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/ss1s-tt18
- Abstract:
- Disrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of the symbol and the staple food of the Mexican nation. As the centre of origin and genetic diversification of maize, the Mexican territory is regarded today as being under threat of irreversible ‘contamination’ by genetically engineered maize, an imported biotechnological product. When the first evidences of such ‘contamination’ were found in 2001, an anti-GM movement was born that quickly became articulated as a defence of cultural identity and national sovereignty. Disrupting Maize mobilizes contemporary theoretical resources in a critical examination of the cultural politics at work in the Mexican defence of maize. From such an examination ‘biotechnological disruption’ emerges provocatively as constitutive of Mexican nationalism rather than externally imposed to it by corporate players. Furthermore, it is conceptualized as a gift, a promise of a more democratic Mexico.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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