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Disrupting Maize: Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico
Contributor(s): Méndez Cota, Gabriela (Author)

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 ISBN: 1783486066     ISBN-13: 9781783486069
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
OUR PRICE: $184.80  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Agronomy - Crop Science
- Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism
Dewey: 633.150
LCCN: 2015047389
Series: Disruptions
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" L (0.95 lbs) 218 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Disrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of the symbol and the staple food of the Mexican nation. As the centre of origin and genetic diversification of maize, the Mexican territory is regarded today as being under threat of irreversible 'contamination' by genetically engineered maize, an imported biotechnological product. When the first evidences of such 'contamination' were found in 2001, an anti-GM movement was born that quickly became articulated as a defence of cultural identity and national sovereignty. Disrupting Maize mobilizes contemporary theoretical resources in a critical examination of the cultural politics at work in the Mexican defence of maize. From such an examination 'biotechnological disruption' emerges provocatively as constitutive of Mexican nationalism rather than externally imposed to it by corporate players. Furthermore, it is conceptualized as a gift, a promise of a more democratic Mexico.
 
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