Resisting and accepting: Farmers' hybrid epistemologies in the GMO controversy in Chile

Manuel Tironi, Maite Salazar and Daniel Valenzuela

Technology in Society, 2013, vol. 35, issue 2, 93-104

Abstract: There is a growing interest in understanding how different actors involved in debates regarding GMOs produce, justify and mobilize evidence in the face of the ‘unknown unknowns’ put forward by this technology. Moreover, and in line with the STS literature on the role of non-expert knowledge and concerned groups in the shaping of GMO regulations, there is an ever-increasing interest in understanding how non-scientific actors – for example anti-GMO or groups or non-industrial farmers – create and legitimize an ‘evidential culture’.

Keywords: GMO controversy; Farmers; Hybrid epistemology; Chile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2013.01.004

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