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category: Science
published: Jan 2014
ISBN:9780774823111
publisher: UBC Press

Resistance Is Fertile

Canadian Struggles on the BioCommons

by Wilhelm Peekhaus

tagged: biotechnology, social aspects
Description

For decades, government, industry, and the mainstream media have extolled the virtues of biotechnology while downplaying its negative side effects. Focusing on agriculture, Resistance Is Fertile challenges this dominant rhetoric by analyzing the major issues around which opponents of biotechnology in Canada are mobilizing resistance – namely, the enclosure of the biological and the knowledge commons, which together form the BioCommons. What emerges is an empirically and theoretically informed analysis of Canada’s regulatory regime, the corporate control of seeds, and attempts to construct and control public discussions about agricultural biotechnology.

About the Author

Wilhelm Peekhaus

Contributor Notes

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

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