The genetic contamination of Mexican nationalism : biotechnology and cultural politics

摘要: This thesis interrogates the relationship between Mexican nationalism, maize agriculture and contemporary technoscience. My aim is to unlock a phenomenon that can at times take shape of reactive while positioning itself as defense agriculture. Since 1999, growing coalition international activists has denounced transgenic "contamination" In process, have identified instrument foreign assault on sovereign entity, namely nation – which "native maize" symbolizes in very tangible way. Rather than being positioned mere instrument powers, my argument agricultural biotechnology seen non-deterministic event calls for critical assessment national narratives around agriculture, science, technology addition developing such assessment, I set out explore ethical political promises refiguring activist use term so latter understood pertain genetically identity itself, including maize-based some Mexicans invoke their nationalistic opposition maize. Drawing specific contributions from post-Marxist theory, media cultural studies feminist technoscience, position "genetic contamination" creative alternative reproduction nationalist identifications. An acknowledgment ineradicability antagonism, rigorous attention contextual specificities materialist commitment pursuit democracy technoscientific world all inform engagement with context here "a form life, generative matrix" (Haraway, Modest_Witness 50).