| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Series |
Radical natures |
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Radical natures.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Contested Futures -- The Agrochemical-Seed-Biotech Oligopoly -- Science and Regulation in Service of Capital -- "GMO Ground Zero" -- Imperialism and the Making of a Plantation Economy -- From Sugar to Monsanto -- The State's Redistribution of Collective Wealth -- Resistance Is Fertile -- Battling Monsanto in an Era of Neoliberal Cynicism -- Seeds of Possibility |
| Summary |
"How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry's power. Hawaiʻi is a primary site for development of herbicide-resistant corn seed and, until recently, was host to more experimental field trials of genetically engineered crops than anywhere else in the world. It is also a node of powerful resistance. While documentaries and popular news stories have profiled the biotech seed industry in Hawaiʻi, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility is the first book to detail the social and historical conditions by which the chemical-seed oligopoly came to occupy the most geographically isolated islands in the world and made the soils of Hawaiʻi the epicenter of agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology testing. Andrea Brower, an activist-scholar from Hawaiʻi, examines the consequences related to genetically engineered seed development for Hawaiʻi's people and the social movement that has risen in response. With insights beyond the islands, Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility illuminates why visions for a radically better world must be expanded by intersectional and systemically oriented movements. "-- Provided by publisher |
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""Details the social and historical conditions by which Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry's power"--Provided by the publisher"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Agricultural chemicals industry -- Hawaii
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Transgenic plants -- Hawaii
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Seed industry and trade -- Hawaii
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SCIENCE / Biotechnology.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness.
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Transgenic plants
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Seed industry and trade
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Agricultural chemicals industry
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Hawaii
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Project Muse. distributor.
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| LC no. |
2022017937 |
| ISBN |
9781952271694 |
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9781952271700 |
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1952271703 |
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195227169X |
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