Tamminen Biogenetic Paradoxes of the Nation

Finncattle, Apples, and Other Genetic-Resource Puzzles
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0346-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

Sakari Tamminen traces the ways in which the mandates of 1992's Convention on Biological Diversity—hailed as the key symbol of a common vision for saving Earth's biodiversity—contribute less to biodiversity conservation than to individual nations using genetic resources for economic and cultural gain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tamminen, Sakari

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. The New Biopolitics of Nature and the Nature of (Mis)Stakes 1
1. Finncattle: Biowealth as National Life 38
2. Alexander and the (Re)Birth of Nation: Apple Trees' Genetic Fingerprinting and the Making of a Molecular Nationhood 84
3. Stilled Life: Animal Gene Banks and New Infrastructures of Life 127
4. Experimental Administration: Genetic Sovereignty and the Institutional (Bio)Politics of Nonhuman Nationhood 173
Conclusion. Biogenetic Paradoxes of the Nation 210
Notes 223
References 237
Index 259

Über Autor(innen)

Sakari Tamminen is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, coauthor of Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical, and coeditor of Bio-Objects: Life in the Twenty-First Century.