1st Edition

NGO Discourses in the Debate on Genetically Modified Crops

By Ksenia Gerasimova Copyright 2018
214 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been a contentious topic for the last three decades. While there have been a number of social science analyses of the issues, this is the first book to assess the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the debate at such a wide geographic scale. The various positions, for and against GMOs, particularly with regard to... Read more

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

Part I Discourses in the Debate

Chapter 2 Nature Fundamentalism

Chapter 3 The Colonial Discourse

Chapter 4 Regionalism, Food Sovereignty and GM crops

Chapter 5 The Sustainability Discourse

Chapter 6 Alterglobalist Discourse

Chapter 7 The Feminist Discourse

Part II Processing the Debate

Chapter 8 Different Kind of Science

Chapter 9 Changing Sides in the Debate

Chapter 10 The Global transfer of ideas

Chapter 11 Conclusions

Biography

Ksenia Gerasimova is a research associate and affiliated lecturer in the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and a research fellow in the Centre of Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Management, University of Cambridge, UK. She is also Professor of Public Policy at the Higher School of Economics University, Moscow, Russia.