Genetic fallout in bio-cultural landscapes: Molecular imperialism and the cultural politics of (not) seeing transgenes in Mexico. Bonneuil, C., Foyer, J., & Wynne, B. Social Studies of Science, 44(6):901–929, December, 2014. ![Genetic fallout in bio-cultural landscapes: Molecular imperialism and the cultural politics of (not) seeing transgenes in Mexico [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex This article explores the trajectory of the global controversy over the introgression (or not) of transgenes from genetically modified maize into Mexican indigenous maize landraces. While a plurality of knowledge-making processes were deployed to render transgenes visible or invisible, we analyze how a particular in vitro based DNA-centered knowledge came to marginalize other forms of knowledge, thus obscuring other bio-cultural dimensions key to the understanding of gene flow and maize diversity. We show that dominant molecular norms of proof and standards of detection, which co-developed with the world of industrial monocropping and gene patenting, discarded and externalized non-compliant actors (i.e. complex maize genomes, human dimensions of gene flow). Operating in the name of high science, they hence obscured the complex biological and cultural processes that maintain crop diversity and enacted a cultural–political domination over the world of Mexican landraces and indigenous communities.
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title = {Genetic fallout in bio-cultural landscapes: {Molecular} imperialism and the cultural politics of (not) seeing transgenes in {Mexico}},
volume = {44},
issn = {0306-3127},
shorttitle = {Genetic fallout in bio-cultural landscapes},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312714548258},
doi = {10.1177/0306312714548258},
abstract = {This article explores the trajectory of the global controversy over the introgression (or not) of transgenes from genetically modified maize into Mexican indigenous maize landraces. While a plurality of knowledge-making processes were deployed to render transgenes visible or invisible, we analyze how a particular in vitro based DNA-centered knowledge came to marginalize other forms of knowledge, thus obscuring other bio-cultural dimensions key to the understanding of gene flow and maize diversity. We show that dominant molecular norms of proof and standards of detection, which co-developed with the world of industrial monocropping and gene patenting, discarded and externalized non-compliant actors (i.e. complex maize genomes, human dimensions of gene flow). Operating in the name of high science, they hence obscured the complex biological and cultural processes that maintain crop diversity and enacted a cultural–political domination over the world of Mexican landraces and indigenous communities.},
language = {en},
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urldate = {2017-10-10},
journal = {Social Studies of Science},
author = {Bonneuil, Christophe and Foyer, Jean and Wynne, Brian},
month = dec,
year = {2014},
keywords = {1 Learned ignorance, Ignorance savante, PRINTED (Fonds papier)},
pages = {901--929},
}
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