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Saving more than seeds: Natures, technology, and politics with/in seed saving

机译：比种子节省更多：通过种子保存/在种子保存方面的自然，技术和政治

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This dissertation is a study of contemporary seed saving practices and contexts, particularly within Canada. Canada's current seed system is increasingly characterised by industrialisation, commodification, and privatisation. Part of the domination of agro-food networks by multinational corporations, facilitated by governments, relies upon (and advances) the control of seeds and a drive to limit (or eliminate) seed saving practices through legislative and technological measures. Different seed networks offer differing possibilities for seeds, growers, eaters, and their relations. Which possibilities emerge and which are eliminated by particular seed networks, and whether these are possibilities that should be supported and expanded, are important questions not only for seed savers but also for society at large.;Why do people (in Canada) continue to save seeds and what meanings do they attach to their practices? How is seed saving in Canada related to broader agro-food networks? What ideas and concepts help explain seed saving relations? These are the questions that orient this research. Methodologically, this research involved gathering first-hand accounts of seed savers in Canada through interviews and focus groups, participating in various seed saving practices and events, and reviewing relevant secondary literatures. Based on the research results, I use three inter-related themes (natures, technology, and politics) to structure the dissertation.;Seed saving is valued in multiple and related ways, including (among other things) as a means to conserve biodiversity, re/embed technologies and economies in societal norms, ensure future food resources, re/value seeds (and other nonhumans) as living beings, build alternative networks and institutions, and allow emergence of different ethico-political relations. Seed saving is about more than whether a particular seed will survive another year. Seed saving offers ways of living that those who practice it (and/or benefit from it) value for reasons other those options presented in dominating agro-food networks. Through their stubborn insistences, their creativity, and their sensate inhabitations seed savers work with other humans and nonhumans to challenge dominating agro-food relations. Dis/engagements with the questions, challenges, and manifestations emerging with/in seed saving reflect and re/configure future possibilities of living well with/in our shared worlds.
机译：本文是对当代种子保存实践和背景的研究，尤其是在加拿大内部。加拿大当前的种子系统越来越具有工业化，商品化和私有化的特征。在政府的推动下，跨国公司对农业食品网络的部分控制依赖（并推动）种子的控制，并通过立法和技术措施来限制（或消除）种子的保存方式。不同的种子网络为种子，种植者，食用者及其关系提供了不同的可能性。特定种子网络出现了哪些可能性，哪些种子消除了这些可能性，以及这些可能性是否应得到支持和扩展，这不仅是种子保存者的重要问题，也是整个社会的重要问题。;为什么人们（加拿大）继续保存种子，它们对实践有何意义？加拿大的种子保存与广泛的农业食品网络有何关系？哪些想法和概念有助于解释种子保存的关系？这些是定位本研究的问题。从方法上讲，这项研究包括通过访谈和焦点小组收集加拿大种子保护者的第一手资料，参加各种种子保护实践和活动，并回顾相关的二手文献。根据研究结果，我使用三个相互关联的主题（自然，技术和政治）来构建论文。种子保存受到多种相关方式的重视，包括（除其他外）作为保护生物多样性的手段，将技术和经济重新/嵌入社会规范中，确保未来的粮食资源，将种子（和其他非人类）重新/珍视为生物，建立替代网络和制度，并允许出现不同的民族政治关系。节省种子的意义不仅仅在于某种种子能否再生存一年。节省种子为那些实践（和/或从中受益）的人们提供了一种生活方式，这些原因是在主导农业食品网络中提出的其他选择之外的原因。通过他们顽固的坚持，他们的创造力以及他们敏感的居住地，种子保护者与其他人类和非人类一起挑战主要的农业食品关系。节约种子过程中出现的问题，挑战和表现形式导致的不参与/交往反映并重新/配置了与我们共享世界相处融洽的未来可能性。

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    Phillips, Catherine.;

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    York University (Canada).;

  • 授予单位 York University (Canada).;
  • 学科 Environmental science.;Natural resource management.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2008
  • 页码 326 p.
  • 总页数 326
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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