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Disrupting maize : food, biotechnology and nationalism in contemporary Mexico / Gabriela Méndez Cota.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Méndez Cota, Gabriela, 1982- author.
- Series:
- Disruptions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corn--Mexico.
- Corn.
- Corn--Social aspects--Mexico.
- Corn--Genetic engineering--Environmental aspects--Mexico.
- Transgenic plants--Environmental aspects--Mexico.
- Transgenic plants.
- Transgenic plants--Risk assessment--Mexico.
- Transgenic plants--Social aspects--Mexico.
- Indigenous crops--Social aspects--Mexico.
- Indigenous crops.
- Agrobiodiversity--Mexico.
- Agrobiodiversity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Theorizes the disruptions precipitated by corporate agricultural biotechnology in Mexican cultural politics.
- Contents:
- Mexican maize : a biotechnological story
- colonial legacies, constitutive disruptions
- Resisting technoscience : the nationalist trap
- The people of maize and the technoscience of culture
- The gift of biotechnological disruption.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78348-608-2
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