1st Edition
Biotechnology and the Politics of Plants Disciplining Time
1. The politics of emergence
The quest for an Apomixis Technology
Anthropology and apomixis
Historical emergence and the sideshadows of frontier research
Anthropology and the politics of plants
2. The quest for apomictic maize at CIMMYT
Apomixis research at ORSTOM
Redescribing wide hybridization
Genetics and apomixis
Wide hybridization and the OCAPo
The transversality of research heterocultures
3. Disciplining time within ApoCORN
The private sector and the neoliberal bioeconomy
Becoming public-private
Disciplining plant biomatter and the genomics dispositif
The promise and peril of an Apomixis Technology
Conflicts in time within ApoCORN
4. Epilogue
Anthropology and the apomictic image of thought
Frontier research and the politics of plants
Biography
Matt Hodges is a social and historical anthropologist based at the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent, UK. He works on the anthropology of science and technology, and themes of history, time, and the experience of cultural transformation and rupture in rural Europe. This focus extends to the technologies and infrastructures that drive such upheavals, including agricultural biotechnology. Recent work on French radical historiography appeared in Current Anthropology 60(3).
