Decentering Biotechnology: Assemblages Built and Assemblages Masked
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A theoretically sophisticated analysis of the nature of objects and the role of technology as a form of life which shapes the social landscape, Decentering Biotechnology engages with questions of power, globalization, development, resistance, exclusion, and participation that arise from treating biological objects differently from conventional property forms. As such, it will appeal to social theorists, sociologists and philosophers, as well as scholars of law, science and technology studies.
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- Full title :Decentering Biotechnology : Assemblages Built and Assemblages Masked.
Summary
A theoretically sophisticated analysis of the nature of objects and the role of technology as a form of life which shapes the social landscape, Decentering Biotechnology engages with questions of power, globalization, development, resistance, exclusion, and participation that arise from treating biological objects differently from conventional property forms. As such, it will appeal to social theorists, sociologists and philosophers, as well as scholars of law, science and technology studies.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate Gower
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (200)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1282774069, 9781282774063, 9781409410065, 1409410064
- oclc:ocn728835534
- LC Classification:TP248.175
- Dewey Decimal:660.6
Table of Contents
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Frequently Used Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Thinking Through Some Blackboxes -- 2 Subjectivities Gained 8230; Subjectivities Lost -- 3 The Production of Biological 8220;Objects8221; -- Part II The Emerging Political Bioeconomy -- 4 Drawing 8220;Objects8221; Together -- 5 The Skein of the Information Age Looks Very Familiar -- Part III Futures -- 6 Glocalization and Resistance -- 7 Doing Biotechnology Differently -- References -- Index.
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