Levidow, Les and Carr, Susan (2010). EU agbiotech controversy: what has been on trial? Soziale Technik , Graz.
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Abstract
Since the 1980s agbiotech has been promoted as a symbol of European progress and political-economic integration. By the late 1990s, however, agbiotech was being turned into a symbol of anxiety about multiple threats: the food chain, agro-industrial methods, their inherent hazards, global market competition, state irresponsibility and political unaccountability through globalisation. Agbiotech was turned into a symbol, object and catalyst for multiple overlapping trials. Beneficent claims were challenged along several lines: safety versus precaution, eco-efficiency versus agro-industrial hazards, and globalisation versus democratic sovereignty. Activists’ accusations were taken up by large environmentalist and farmers’ organisations, as well as by wider groups in civil society, acting as a pervasive mobile ‘jury’. In these ways, protest challenged the democratic legitimacy of a biotech-driven development pathway, while also creating greater scope for alternative pathways.
| Item Type: | Other |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2010 The Authors |
| Keywords: | agbiotech controversy; European Union; trials |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Politics, Economics, Development, Geography Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD) |
| Item ID: | 26769 |
| Depositing User: | Les Levidow |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jan 2011 15:50 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2016 13:56 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/26769 |
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