Neoliberalism on the molecular scale. Economic and genetic reductionism in biotechnology battles

By K. Mcafee. 2003

177 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Les Levidow
2. J. Calvert
3. Kean Birch
4. M. Robertson
5. W. Pengue
6. K. McCormick
7. T. Heimann
8. R. Meyer

In Molecular Biology

1. Les Levidow
2. I. Monterroso
3. J. Calvert
4. R. Binimelis
5. Kean Birch
6. M. Robertson
7. W. Pengue
8. K. McCormick

In Plant Science

1. I. Monterroso
2. Les Levidow
3. J. Calvert
4. R. Binimelis
5. M. Robertson
6. W. Pengue

Citations in the corpus

• Sustainable Capital? The Neoliberalization of Nature and Knowledge in the European “Knowledge-based Bio-economy” (2010, background): “Extraordinary powers are attributed to natural resources, especially at the molecular level in reference to (bio-)technoscientific developments and applications [41].”
• EU criteria for sustainable biofuels: accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunder (2013, background): “This diversifies the earlier agri-food biotech project, which has sought intellectual property for novel inputs to produce standard commodity outputs (McAfee, 2003).”
• Discovering Price in All the Wrong Places: The Work of Commodity Definition and Price under Neoliberal Environmental Policy (2007, background): “Work documenting the on-the-ground overcoming (or not) of the contradictions of capitalism will lead to finer-grained understandings, and can provide a tonic against the depressing tendency to see capital as unitary and omnipotent (Gibson-Graham 1993; McAfee 2003).”
• Framing GM Crops as a Food Security Solution. (2013, unknown): “A striking feature of these debates was the way public opinion became pitted against science, with the media and NGOs blamed for whipping up consumer concerns (although this was disputed by Mayer and Stirling, 2004).”
• The Commodification of Emergence: Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology and Intellectual Property (2008, background): “We also saw above that commodification requires ‘unitary objects with stable, predictable properties’ (McAfee, 2003: 204, emphasis added).”
• ''Transgenic treadmill": Responses to the emergence and spread of glyphosate-resistant johnsongrass in Argentina (2009, background): “This blind spot has also been discussed in the context of herbicide-resistant GMOs (Altieri, 2005; Altieri and Rosset, 1999; Appleby, 2005; McAfee, 2003; Mueller-Schaerer, 2002).”