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Transgenics in Dispute - Political conflicts in the commercial liberation of GMOs in Brazil (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Transgenics in Dispute - Political conflicts in the commercial liberation of GMOs in Brazil (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book analyses the conflict over the release of transgenic
soybean in Brazil based on a narrative analysis of political
conflict. At the end of the 1990s, the commercial release of
Roundup Ready (RR) soybean triggered a heated debate over the
introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Brazilian
agriculture, which developed into an open political conflict
opposing pro- and anti-GMOs groups in Brazilian society. This
volume examines some of the structuring axes of this conflict by
applying a narrative analysis of political conflict. In this
approach, politics is perceived as a process of interpretive
conflict in which participants in the political game seek to
establish the lines that delimit the very definition of public
issues under debate. The issue of GMOs is understood, from this
perspective, as a public controversy whose dynamics are shaped by
the discourses that emerge from the dispute itself. To analyze
these controversies, the book focuses on three axes of narrative
analyses: the conflict over distributives issues associated with
the commercial release of RR soy; the conflict over scientific
uncertainty associated with the environmental risks of GMOs; and
the conflict over labeling policies. Transgenics in Dispute:
Political Conflicts in the Commercial Liberation of GMOs in Brazil
will be of interest to both social and environmental scientists
concerned with the risks produced by the newest technologies that
mediate our relationship with the environment and with the public
debate that their use tends to provoke. This book is a translation
of the original Portuguese edition "Transgenicos em disputa: Os
conflitos politicos na liberacao comercial dos OGMs no Brasil" by
Cristiano Luis Lenzi, published in Brazil by Appris Editora in
2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial
intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The
author has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to
refine the work stylistically. Springer Nature works continuously
to further the development of tools for the production of books and
on the related technologies to support the authors.
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