Cultivation and Comprehension: How Genetic Modification Irreversibly Alters the Human Engagement with Nature

Mark Harvey

Sociological Research Online, 1999, vol. 4, issue 3, 24-31

Abstract: Genetic engineering is placed in the context of a history of transformations of the relations between ‘cultivated nature’ and ‘naturally occurring nature’. It is argued that genetic modification is a bio-socio-economic process, producing new diversity within cultivated nature. Viewing bio- science and technology as ‘socially embedded’, it argues that different trajectories of their development have both the much trumpeted negative possibilities of ecological disaster and a positive potential of revolutionising both the culture of food and eco-sustainability.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Culture/nature; Genetic Modification; Nature Fundamentalism; New Foods; Techno-scientific Trajectories (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.310

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