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Wilhelm Peekhaus - Resistance Is Fertile: Canadian Struggles on the BioCommons - 9780774823104 - V9780774823104
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Resistance Is Fertile: Canadian Struggles on the BioCommons

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Description for Resistance Is Fertile: Canadian Struggles on the BioCommons Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; KNDH1; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 567.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774823104
SKU
V9780774823104
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Wilhelm Peekhaus
Wilhelm Peekhaus is an assistant professor at the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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