Harvey, M (1999) Cultivation and Comprehension: How genetic modification irreversibly alters the human engagement with nature. Sociological Research Online, 4 (3).
Harvey, M (1999) Cultivation and Comprehension: How genetic modification irreversibly alters the human engagement with nature. Sociological Research Online, 4 (3).
Harvey, M (1999) Cultivation and Comprehension: How genetic modification irreversibly alters the human engagement with nature. Sociological Research Online, 4 (3).
Abstract
Genetic engineering is placed in the context of a history of transformations of the relations between 'cultivated nature' and 'naturally occurring nature'. It is argued that genetic modification is a bio-socio-economic process, producing new diversity within cultivated nature. Viewing bio- science and technology as 'socially embedded', it argues that different trajectories of their development have both the much trumpeted negative possibilities of ecological disaster and a positive potential of revolutionising both the culture of food and eco-sustainability.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Agribusiness; Culture/nature; Genetic Modification; Nature Fundamentalism; New Foods; Techno-scientific Trajectories |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2015 15:24 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 18:08 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/10302 |