Biogenetic Paradoxes of the Nation : Finncattle, Apples, and Other Genetic-Resource Puzzles /

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"Biogenetic paradoxes of the nation is an ethnography of the patterns and paradoxes developing around the 1992 global Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) treaty, which allowed the 196 signing countries to claim sovereignty over nonhuman life. Under this treaty, biodiversity is defined thro...

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Autor principal: Tamminen, Sakari (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nature and nurture.
Life sciences > Social aspects.
Biodiversity conservation > Government policy.
Biodiversity conservation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Sciences de la vie > Aspect social > Finlande.
Heredite et milieu.
Biodiversite > Conservation > Politique gouvernementale > Finlande.
Biodiversite > Conservation > Finlande.
Life sciences > Social aspects > Finland.
Biodiversity conservation > Government policy > Finland.
Biodiversity conservation > Finland.
Finland.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The new biopolitics of nature and the nature of (mis)stakes
  • Finncattle : biowealth as national life
  • Alexander and the (re)birth of nation : apple trees' genetic fingerprinting and the making of a molecular nationhood
  • Stilled life : animal gene banks and new infrastructures of life
  • Experimental administration : genetic sovereignty and the institutional (bio)politics of nonhuman nationhood
  • Conclusion. Biogenetic paradoxes of the nation.

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