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Neoliberal origins of anti-GM protest in Europe
Get PDFAs the context for this article, the GMFuturos study analyses how the GM crop controversy symbolised a struggle against unwanted forms of neoliberal globalisation in three countries (India, Brazil and Mexico). This article likewise situates the European GM controversy within a long-standing European political agenda of neoliberal policymaking. A biotechnological vision of further industrialising European agriculture was promoted as an overall solution to the problem of European competitiveness. Through various policy and legislative frameworks, these institutional commitments foreclosed European futures, thus provoking conflicts over democratic accountability. As a main lesson to be drawn, political-economic contexts always define the nature of a technology, in turn as the basis for contextualising public responses
Crop science, the Heisenberg Principle and resistance to Genetically Modified Organisms
Get PDFThis commentary, by theologian and ethicist Michael Northcott, contextualizes the findings of the GMFuturos study within a broader narrative of the disconnect between agricultural science and everyday food practices. What crop scientists commonly miss, he argues, is the relationality that exists between people and land, and between culture and agriculture. Using the TV series Breaking Bad as a metaphor for GM crops, and the ancient Greek idea of poïesis as a resource, Northcott points to practices involved in the making of food as a source of goodness, truth, beauty and freedom, and as a response to the gradual neoliberal collectivization of agriculture by private corporation
Crop science, the Heisenberg Principle and resistance to Genetically Modified Organisms
Get PDFThis commentary, by theologian and ethicist Michael Northcott, contextualizes the findings of the GMFuturos study within a broader narrative of the disconnect between agricultural science and everyday food practices. What crop scientists commonly miss, he argues, is the relationality that exists between people and land, and between culture and agriculture. Using the TV series Breaking Bad as a metaphor for GM crops, and the ancient Greek idea of poïesis as a resource, Northcott points to practices involved in the making of food as a source of goodness, truth, beauty and freedom, and as a response to the gradual neoliberal collectivization of agriculture by private corporation
Las posibilidades de la práctica. Apuntes teóricos, metodológicos y éticos para una colaboración entre la Antropología y la Salud Pública en el Reino Unido
Get PDFThis article aims to suggest ideas for a more dynamic anthropological practice in Spain, through the examination of and comparison with anthropological practice in UK. Using an ethnographic evaluation of a public health programme in UK as a departing point, the author explores the positive aspects which could be extracted and extrapolated form the anthropological practice in that country. This article reviews the ways in which British anthropology connects with other disciplines, agencies and institutions in order to offer reflexive commentaries which have an impact both on public health interventions and on anthropological theory. These theoretical and practical dimensions are possible thanks to British anthropology’s grounding on theoretical tradition (a tradition which is constantly renewed through interdisciplinary dialogue), thanks to the use of collaborative methodologies (which demand the implication of institutions and researchers alike) and thanks to the concern with the ethical questions arisingfrom the anthropological enterpriseEl presente artículo pretende, a través de una visión de la práctica antropológica en el Reino Unido, sugerir ideas para abrir el camino a una antropología peninsular más dinámica ydialogante. A través de la consideración de una evaluación etnográfica de un programa de salud pública en el Reino Unido, se exploran los puntos positivos que pudieran extraerse de la práctica antropológica en ese país. El artículo explora cómo la antropología académica británica conecta con otras disciplinas, agencias e instituciones para ofrecer reflexiones que revierten tanto en la evaluación de acciones sociales como en la producción de nueva teoría antropológica. Esta labor a la vez teórica y práctica es posible gracias al anclaje en una tradición teórica renovada constantemente a través del diálogo interdisciplinario, la utilización de metodologías colaborativas que requieren del compromiso de instituciones e investigadores y la preocupación por las cuestiones éticas que rodean a la labor antropológica
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Get PDFGoverning agricultural sustainability : Global lessons from GM crops
No full textAlthough GM crops are seen by their advocates as a key component of the future of world agriculture and as part of the solution for world poverty and hunger, their uptake has not been smooth nor universal: they have been marred by controversy and all too commonly their regulation has been challenged as inadequate, even biased. This book aims to understand these dynamics, examining the impacts of GM crops in diverse contexts and their potentials to contribute to sustainable agricultural futures. Part 1 draws on research from three global 'rising powers' - Brazil, India and Mexico - exploring the views of scientists, farmers and publics. Using a diverse array of ethnographic and qualitative methodologies, the book examines the dynamics that have underpinned the controversy in three diverse geo-political contexts, the manner in which dominant institutional framings have been closely aligned with the interests of powerful elites, and the multiple ways in which these have been resisted through local, symbolic and material practices. Part 2 comprises a series of short comment pieces from 11 leading social and natural scientists responding to the question of how to develop a policy framework for the responsible innovation of sustainable, culturally appropriate and socially just agricultural GM technologies. This innovative book offers new insights for researchers and postgraduates in Science and technology studies, Agro-ecology and Environmental Studies, Development studies, Anthropology, Human Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Public Administration, Latin American studies, and Asian studies.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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