Review ID: CBB567797128

Review of "Seeds of power: Environmental injustice and genetically modified soybeans in Argentina" (2022)

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This paper aims to review three books that inform us about the diverse relations of power and power asymmetries in the entry of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) in countries like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Canada. From a political economy and an agrarian and peasant studies perspective, the authors show that not only the set of rules of national institutions, global corporations, and the global market establish the basis that favor the entry of GEOs. Instead, the conjugation of power asymmetries performed by different actors in power, historical processes, and gender and race inequalities are the ones that trace the path for a realignment of the agrarian system supported by science and based on the stigmatization of social movements.

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Authors & Contributors
Hess, David J.
Levidow, Les
Boschert, Karin
Darling, Katherine Weatherford
Jauho, Mikko
Klintman, Mikael
Journals
Science as Culture
Food, Culture and Society
Social Studies of Science
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Journal of Food Science
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
MIT Press
University of California Press
University California, Davis
Concepts
Genetically modified foods (GMO)
Food and foods
Science and technology studies (STS)
Science and society
Social movements
Food safety
People
Luud Schimmelpennink
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Brazil
Finland
Mexico
Taiwan
Denmark
Europe
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