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Globalisation, Sustainable Innovation and Alternatives

Sub-Theme Leader: Richard Twine

At Cesagen we:

• explore genomic innovation in the context of globalisations, suggested paths to sustainability and alternatives to genomic trajectories
• explore various cases of corporate agency, for example, looking at how livestock genetics companies play a role in the cultural transmission of Western meat/dairy centred diets with their associated sustainability concerns
• develop conceptual and methodological tools for capturing technological innovation as it pertains to multiple questions of sustainability
• analyse the dynamics of innovation, which has the potential to contribute to the current policy interest in maximizing the ‘impacts’ of research and its ‘translation’ into social, economic and environmental benefits
• critically analyse the techno-scientific promissory terrain as it pertains to the notion of an imagined sustainable future based upon the capitalisation of novel bio-materials

Animal Biotechnology as a liberatory imaginary
Richard Twine

Barcoding Nature: Shifting taxonomic practices in an age of biodiversity loss
Claire Waterton

Biodiversity
Paul Oldham, Oscar Forero

Biopiracy in Peru: Tracing Biopiracies, Theft, Loss & Traditional Knowledge (PhD Thesis)
Jodie Chapell

Bringing Standards to Life in Contemporary Biology
Adrian Mackenzie, Rebecca Ellis, Claire Waterton, Ruth McNally

Experimentality
Bronislaw Szerszynski

Next Generation Bio-fuels
Adrian Mackenzie

Re-imagining Sustainable Agro-food Futures: Alternative (Bio)-Economies in a Knowledge Society Era (PhD Thesis)
Katerina Psarikidou

Revealing the Animal-Industrial Complex – Shame, Method and Critical Animal Studies
Richard Twine

Standards: Recipes for Reality
Professor Lawrence Busch

Technolife
Adrian Mackenzie, Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir and Brian Wynne

The Protection of Traditional Knowledge in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Critical Ethnography of Capital Expansion (PhD Thesis)
Nina Moeller

Biodiversity
Paul Oldham; Oscar Forero

Facilitating Alternative Agro-food Networks: Stakeholders Perspectives on Research Needs (FAAN)
Katerina Psarikidou and Bronislaw Szerszynski

Genetic Fictions: Genes, Gender and Genre
Joan Haran

PROTEE: Evaluation of an STS approach to real-time, reflexive management and analysis of innovation projects
Ruth McNally

Synthetic Biology
Paul Oldham

The Imagined Transition to a Green Capitalism
Bronislaw Szerszynski and Larry Reynolds

The Publics of Bioscience
Joan Haran; Maureen McNeil