Biopolitics
A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology

While the commercial and scientific publicity around biotechnology has stressed the potential gains, scientists, thinkers and activists have been warning of the grave risks and difficult ethical issues at stake. This reader assembles critiques of biotechnology.

While the commercial and scientific publicity around biotechnology has stressed the potential gains, scientists, thinkers and activists have been warning of the grave risks and difficult ethical issues at stake. This reader assembles critiques of biotechnology. The contributors explore the hidden implications and likely consequences of defining biotechnology as the latest wonder cure for the environment and development crisis.

Mobilizing critical communities and discourses on modern biotechnology, Ingunn Moser. Part 1 Biotechnology as culture - (re)constructions of biology and nature: human nature, Ruth Hubbard
genes as causes, Ruth Hubbard
fractured images of science, language and power - a postmodern optic, or just bad eyesight?, Evelyn Fox Keller
otherwordly conversations, terrain topics, local terms, Donna Haraway. Part 2 Biohazards - risks in context: the limits of experimental knowledge - a feminist perspective on the ecological risks of genetic engineering, Regine Kollek
error-friendliness and the evolutionary impact of deliberate releases of GMOs, Christine von Weizsaecker
the greening of biotechnology - GMOs as environment-friendly products, Les Levidow &
James Tait. Part 3 Bioethics - knowledge and ethics as politics: biosemiotics and ethics, Jesper Hoffmeyer
a "genethics" that makes sense, Rosalyn Diprose
antagonistic ethics discourses for biotechnology regulation, Les Levidow. Part 4 Biopolitics - the political ecology of biotechnology: biotechnology development and conservation of biotechnology, Vandana Shiva
biotechnology, patents and the Third World, Cary Fowler
biotechnology and the future of agriculture, Henk Hobbelink
the seven dimensions of sustainable agriculture, Nicanor Perlas
beyond reductionism, Vandama Shiva.