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Rhetorics Of Species Revivalism And Biotechnology – A Roundtable Dialogue, Eva Kasprzycka, Charlotte Wrigley, Adam Searle, Richard Twine Jan 2023

Rhetorics Of Species Revivalism And Biotechnology – A Roundtable Dialogue, Eva Kasprzycka, Charlotte Wrigley, Adam Searle, Richard Twine

Animal Studies Journal

This informal dialogue contextualises and explores contemporary practices of nonhuman animal gene-modification in de-extinction projects. Looking at recent developments in biotechnology’s role in de-extinction sciences and industries, these interdisciplinary scholars scrutinise the neoliberal impetus driving ‘species revivalism’ in the wake of the Capitalocene. Critical examinations of species integrity, cryo-preservation, techno-optimism, rewilding initiatives and projects aimed at restoring extinct animals such as the woolly mammoth and bucardo are used to map some of the necessary restructuring of conservation policies and enterprises that could secure viably sustainable – and just – futures for nonhuman animals at risk of extinction. The authors question …


Food For Thought On Cognitive Scripts And Genetically Engineered Food, Ibpp Editor Mar 2000

Food For Thought On Cognitive Scripts And Genetically Engineered Food, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies some of the common thought sequences seemingly harbored by members of the sociopolitical opposition to the production and sale of genetically engineered food.


Trends. Evolutionary Theories, Iceland, And An Opportunity It Can't Refuse, Ibpp Editor Jan 1999

Trends. Evolutionary Theories, Iceland, And An Opportunity It Can't Refuse, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses a major Swiss pharmaceutical company that plans on investing in Icelandic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).


Biotechnology : Exposing The Myths & Realities, Sue Sutherland, Alan Lymbery Jan 1995

Biotechnology : Exposing The Myths & Realities, Sue Sutherland, Alan Lymbery

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Biotechnology has become one of the buzz words of the 1990s. Sounds impressive but what's it all about? Sue Sutherland and Alan Lymbery unravel some of the jargon and explore its potential for Western Australian agriculture.


Gene Therapy And Genetic Engineering: Frankenstein Is Still A Myth, But It Should Be Reread Periodically, George A. Hudock Jul 1973

Gene Therapy And Genetic Engineering: Frankenstein Is Still A Myth, But It Should Be Reread Periodically, George A. Hudock

Indiana Law Journal

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