Biopolitics: A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology

by Vandana Shiva (Editor), Ingunn Moser (Editor)

Overview

Biotechnology is the single most powerful bundle of new technologies currently under development. It is also the most intrusive and determinative technology relating to nature generally and the human body specifically. This Reader brings together some of the most important work from feminists and environmentalists critical of the headlong rush into what is likely to prove a technological minefield. As such it will be essential reading for students, scholars and activists in social studies of science, women's studies, development and environmental studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781856493369
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/04/1995
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and campaigner. She won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993, and the Earth Day Award. In India she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Her numerous influential books include Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (Zed), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed) and Monocultures of the Mind (Zed).

Ingunn Moser teaches at the Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Oslo.
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and campaigner. She won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993, and the Earth Day Award. In India she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Her numerous influential books include Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (Zed), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed) and Monocultures of the Mind (Zed).

Ingunn Moser teaches at the Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Oslo.

Table of Contents

1. Mobilising critical communities and discourses on modern biotechnology - Ingunn Moser
2. Human nature - Ruth Hubbard
3. Genes as causes - Ruth Hubbard
4. Fractured images of science, language and power - Evelyn Fox Keller
5. Otherworldly conversations - Donna Haraway
6. The limits of experimental knowledge - Regine Kollek
7. Error-friendliness and the evolutionary impact of deliberate releases of GMOs - Christine von Weizsäcker
8. The greening of biotechnology - Les Levidow and Joyce Tait
9. Biosemiotics and ethics - Jesper Hoffmeyer
10. A 'genethics' that makes sense - Rosalyn Diprose
11. Antagonistic ethics discourses for biotechnology regulation - Les Levidow
12. Biotechnology, development and conservation of biodiversity - Vandana Shiva
13. Biotechnology, patents and the Third World - Cary Fowler
14. Biotechnology and the future of agriculture - Henk Hobbelink
15. The seven dimensions of sustainable agriculture - Nicanor Perlas
16. Beyond Reductionism - Vandana Shiva

Editorial Reviews

Led by the renowned Harvard biologist Ruth Hubbard, contributors from northern Europe, the US, Asia, and Australia bring ecological and feminist perspectives to the potential impact of genetic engineering on food, agriculture, culture, and biodiversity, especially pointing out the dimensions of risk, ethics, and politics that are absent from most scientific discussions of biotechnology. All but two of the 16 papers are reprinted from journals or other collections. Paper edition (unseen), $25.00. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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