Mahony, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6377-413X and Pallett, Helen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5014-6356
(2013)
Boundaries, territory and public controversy: the GM debate re-materialised.
Area, 45 (2).
249–251.
ISSN 0004-0894
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Abstract
In the UK, public debate about the science and applications of plant genetic modification (GM) recently re-surfaced in a conflict between researchers and protesters over a field of experimental wheat crop. Protesters threatened to destroy the crop in a mass action, while researchers and pro-GM campaigners rallied to the defence of this corner of the countryside in a bid to ‘defend science’ itself.1 Yet on the day of the proposed action the protesters were kept at a distance from the heavily policed field. In this short essay we consider the spatiality of this debate – its boundaries, territories, transgressions – and explore the significance of this particular controversy for the wider public debate and for geographers' engagement with knowledge controversies.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia > Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science |
Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2015 08:24 |
Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2022 11:31 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/55466 |
DOI: | 10.1111/area.12014 |
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