TY - BOOK ID - 78639878 TI - Resistance is fertile PY - 2013 SN - 077481134X 0774823127 9780774823128 9780774823104 0774823100 9780774823135 0774823135 PB - Vancouver UBC Press DB - UniCat KW - Agricultural biotechnology KW - Agro-biotechnology KW - Biotechnology KW - Government policy KW - Economic aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78639878 AB - For decades, government, industry, and the mainstream media have extolled the virtues of biotechnology, downplaying its negative side effects and claiming that it can improve everything from our health and diet to our environment and economy. Focusing on agricultural biotechnology, Resistance Is Fertile challenges this dominant rhetoric by offering a critical analysis of the role of capital and the state in the development of this technoscience. Wilhelm Peekhaus analyzes the major issues around which opponents of agricultural biotechnology in Canada are mobilizing resistance � namely, the enclosure of the biological commons and the knowledge commons, which together form the BioCommons. What emerges is an empirically and theoretically informed analysis of topics such as Canada's regulatory regime, the corporate control of seeds, the intellectual property system, and attempts to construct and control public discussions about agricultural biotechnology. ER -