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GMOs, consumerism and the global politics of biotechnology : rethinking food, bodies and identities in Africa's 21st century

Mawere, Munyaradzi, editor, Nhemachena, Artwell, editor

Overview

Situating the debates in the contemporary discourses on decoloniality, global consumerism, global food apartheid and the challenges and prospects of the emergent sharing economies, this collection of essays critically examines the importation, use and implications of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other such non-food products on African bodies, institutions and cultures. Contributors pose questions about how Africa can be decolonised both politically and in terms of global food apartheid and the dehumanising importation and use of \"foreign\" non-food products, some of which militate against the ethos of [African] identity, Renaissance and indigeneity. On note, the book urges the African continent to ensure the safety of imports ensuing from the global flows and circulations that are mired in the resilient invisible global matrices of power. --From publisher description.

• Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG,Distributed in and outside North America by African Books Collective
• Subject: 2000-2099 / Food Biotechnology. / Genetically modified foods. / Food supply Africa. / Food habits Africa. / Food Social aspects. / Globalization Moral and ethical aspects. / Biotechnology Social aspects. / Africa.
• ISBN: 9789956762354, 9956762350

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
TP248.195.A35 G56 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE