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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.
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    Publisher:
    Rowman & Littlefield, Intl.
    Pub. Date:
    2016
    Version:
    Proofs
    ISBN:
    PB 978-1-78348-607-6
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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