Disrupting Maize Food Biotechncb

Theorizes the disruptions precipitated by corporate agricultural biotechnology in Mexican cultural politics.

List of contents

Acknowledgements / Introduction / 1. Mexican Maize: A Biotechnological Story / 2. Colonial Legacies, Constitutive Disruptions / 3. Resisting Technoscience: The Nationalist Trap / 4. The People of Maize and the Technoscience of Culture / 5. The Gift of Biotechnological Disruption / Index

About the author

Gabriela Mendez Cota is a post-doctoral researcher at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Unidad Cuajimalpa

Summary

Theorizes the disruptions precipitated by corporate agricultural biotechnology in Mexican cultural politics.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriela Mendez Cota, Gabriela Maendez Cota, Gabriela Méndez Cota, Mendez Cota Gabriela, M'Ndez Cota Gabriela
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781783486069
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-606-9
• Series: Disruptions; Disruptions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Mexico, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Agriculture & Related Industries