Description: Further DetailsTitle: Disrupting MaizeCondition: NewSubtitle: Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary MexicoISBN-10: 1783486066EAN: 9781783486069ISBN: 9781783486069Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield InternationalFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/22/2016Description: Disrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of the symbol and the staple food of the Mexican nation. As the centre of origin and genetic diversification of maize, the Mexican territory is regarded today as being under threat of irreversible ‘contamination’ by genetically engineered maize, an imported biotechnological product. When the first evidences of such ‘contamination’ were found in 2001, an anti-GM movement was born that quickly became articulated as a defence of cultural identity and national sovereignty. Disrupting Maize mobilizes contemporary theoretical resources in a critical examination of the cultural politics at work in the Mexican defence of maize. From such an examination ‘biotechnological disruption’ emerges provocatively as constitutive of Mexican nationalism rather than externally imposed to it by corporate players. Furthermore, it is conceptualized as a gift, a promise of a more democratic Mexico.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 223mmItem Length: 145mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 431gAuthor: Gabriela Méndez CotaGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: DisruptionsTopic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & Math, Technology & EngineeringRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Disrupting Maize
Title: Disrupting Maize
Subtitle: Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico
ISBN-10: 1783486066
EAN: 9781783486069
ISBN: 9781783486069
Release Date: 04/22/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Series: Disruptions
Topic: Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages: 218 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Disrupting Maize : Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Subject: Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), Life Sciences / Botany, Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Science
Item Length: 8.8 in
Author: Gabriela. Méndez Cota
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
