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Science Biotechnology

Resistance Is Fertile

Canadian Struggles on the BioCommons

by (author) Wilhelm Peekhaus

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2014
Category
Biotechnology, General, Social Aspects
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774823135
    Publish Date
    Mar 2013
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774823104
    Publish Date
    Apr 2013
    List Price
    $95.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774823111
    Publish Date
    Jan 2014
    List Price
    $32.95

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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.

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Contributor Notes

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