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100	1		_aAga, Aniket, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGenetically Modified Democracy: _bTransgenic Crops in Contemporary India _cAniket Aga.
264		1	_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c[2021]
300			_axvi, 309 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aYale Agrarian Studies Series
505			_aList 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
520	8		_aGenetically 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.-- _cSource other than the Library of Congress.
650		0	_aTransgenic plants _zIndia.
650		0	_aTransgenic plants _xPolitical aspects _zIndia.
830		0	_aYale agrarian studies.
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