Keywords:
Life sciences -- Social aspects.
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Life sciences -- Political aspects.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Drawn from disciplines within science and technology studies and from geography, ecology, and developmental biology, the contributors offer a close look at how the mutable forms and concepts of life link the processes of science to those of information, finance, and commodities.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (237 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780816688463
Series Statement:
Cultural Politics
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=310403
DDC:
570/.1
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Changing Life in the New World Dis/Order -- The Terminator Meets Commander Data: Cyborg Identity in the New World Order -- Bodies of Knowledge: Biology and the Intercultural University -- Genetic Engineering, Discourses of Deficiency, and the New Politics of Population -- Contradictions along the Commodity Road to Environmental Stabilization: Foresting Gambian Gardens -- Discipline or Solidarity? Ecology as Politics -- Overpopulating the World: Notes toward a Discursive Reading -- How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Undifferentiated Science-Politics and Its Potential Reconstruction -- Do Androids Pulverize Tiger Bones to Use as Aphrodisiacs? -- Bubbles in the Cosmic Saucepan -- Afterword: Shifting Positions for Knowing and Intervening in the Cultural Politics of the Life Sciences -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.
