Sakari Tamminen

Biogenetic Paradoxes of the Nation

Finncattle, Apples, and Other Genetic-Resource Puzzles

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Produktbeschreibung

Sakari Tamminen is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, coauthor of Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical, and coeditor of Bio-Objects: Life in the Twenty-First Century .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001959
• ISBN-10: 147800195X
• Artikelnr.: 55392404

Autorenporträt

Sakari Tamminen is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, coauthor of Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical, and coeditor of Bio-Objects: Life in the Twenty-First Century .

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. The New Biopolitics of Nature and the Nature of (Mis)Stakes 
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1. Finncattle: Biowealth as National Life  38
2. Alexander and the (Re)Birth of Nation: Apple Trees' Genetic
Fingerprinting and the Making of a Molecular Nationhood  84
3. Stilled Life: Animal Gene Banks and New Infrastructures of Life  127
4. Experimental Administration: Genetic Sovereignty and the Institutional
(Bio)Politics of Nonhuman Nationhood  173
Conclusion. Biogenetic Paradoxes of the Nation  210
Notes  223
References  237
Index  259