Resistance is fertile : Canadian struggles on the BioCommons / Wilhelm Peekhaus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peekhaus, Wilhelm.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural biotechnology--Canada.

Agricultural biotechnology.

Agricultural biotechnology--Government policy--Canada.

Agricultural biotechnology--Economic aspects--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For decades, government, industry, and the mainstream media have extolled the virtues of biotechnology, downplaying its negative side effects and claiming that it can improve everything from our health and diet to our environment and economy. Focusing on agricultural biotechnology, Resistance Is Fertile challenges this dominant rhetoric by offering a critical analysis of the role of capital and the state in the development of this technoscience. Wilhelm Peekhaus analyzes the major issues around which opponents of agricultural biotechnology in Canada are mobilizing resistance � namely, the enclosure of the biological commons and the knowledge commons, which together form the BioCommons. What emerges is an empirically and theoretically informed analysis of topics such as Canada's regulatory regime, the corporate control of seeds, the intellectual property system, and attempts to construct and control public discussions about agricultural biotechnology.

Contents:

Introduction

Canadian biotechnology policy and its critics

Enclosure and resistance on the BioCommons

Battles to reclaim and maintain in the BioCommons

Intellectual property rights : facilitating capital's command over biotechnology

Regulatory capture and its critics

Capture and control of biotechnology discourse in Canada

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7748-1134-X

0-7748-2312-7

OCLC:

820617270