Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India Aniket Aga.

By:

Aga, Aniket [author.]

Series: Yale agrarian studiesPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]Description: xvi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780300245905
0300245904
9789354421075

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

631.520954 AGA 23

LOC classification:

SB123.57 .A33 2021

Contents:

List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; PART ONE; INSTITUTIONALIZING BIOTECHNOLOGY; 2 Revolution of the Chemists; 3 The Bureaucratic Consolidation of Biotechnology; PART TWO; THE GOVERNMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY; 4 Regulating GM Crops; 5 Emergence and Deepening of Activism against GM Crops; PART THREE; REMAKING AGRARIAN CAPITALISM; 6 Profiting from Seeds; 7 Merchants of Knowledge; 8 Genetically Modified Democracy; Notes; References; Index

Summary: Genetically modified or transgenic crops are controversial across the world. Advocates see such crops as crucial to feeding the world's growing population; critics oppose them for pushing farmers deeper into ecological and economic distress, and for shoring up the power of agribusinesses. India leads the world in terms of the intensity of democratic engagement with transgenic crops. Anthropologist Aniket Aga excavates the genealogy of conflicts of interest and disputes over truth that animate the ongoing debate in India around the commercial release of transgenic food crops. The debate may well transform agriculture and food irreversibly in a country already witness to widespread agrarian distress, and over 300,000 suicides by farmers in the last two decades. Aga illustrates how state, science, and agrarian capitalism interact in novel ways to transform how democracy is lived and understood, and sheds light on the dynamics of technological change in populous, unequal polities.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

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List of Abbreviations;
Acknowledgments;
1 Introduction;
PART ONE;
INSTITUTIONALIZING BIOTECHNOLOGY;
2 Revolution of the Chemists;
3 The Bureaucratic Consolidation of Biotechnology;
PART TWO;
THE GOVERNMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY;
4 Regulating GM Crops;
5 Emergence and Deepening of Activism against GM Crops;
PART THREE;
REMAKING AGRARIAN CAPITALISM;
6 Profiting from Seeds;
7 Merchants of Knowledge;
8 Genetically Modified Democracy;
Notes;
References;
Index

Genetically modified or transgenic crops are controversial across the world. Advocates see such crops as crucial to feeding the world's growing population; critics oppose them for pushing farmers deeper into ecological and economic distress, and for shoring up the power of agribusinesses. India leads the world in terms of the intensity of democratic engagement with transgenic crops. Anthropologist Aniket Aga excavates the genealogy of conflicts of interest and disputes over truth that animate the ongoing debate in India around the commercial release of transgenic food crops. The debate may well transform agriculture and food irreversibly in a country already witness to widespread agrarian distress, and over 300,000 suicides by farmers in the last two decades. Aga illustrates how state, science, and agrarian capitalism interact in novel ways to transform how democracy is lived and understood, and sheds light on the dynamics of technological change in populous, unequal polities.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

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