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Science, Agricultural and the Politics of Polity examines the intersections of globalisation, intersections of globalisation, technology and politics through a detailed, empirically-based examination of agricultural biotechnology in India. The focus is on Banglore and Karnataka, a part of India which has seen a massive growth in biotech enterprise, experimentation with GM cotton and a contested policy debate about the role biotechnology should play in economic ...
Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences--such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas--pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This book brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around issues of science, citizenship and globalisation. It reflects on the nature ...