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Remaking Nature: The Politics of the Biotechnology

  • ARTS3243
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Subject Area: Environmental Humanities<br/><br/>This course examines what many have called the ‘century of the gene’ and its implications for contemporary environmental thinking. Biotechnology might therefore be understood as a social, political and cultural project inasmuch they are a technical and technological one. This course considers these issues through the prism of contemporary environmental thinking, drawing on a multidisciplinary set of insights from science and technology studies (STS), cultural and political theory, cultural anthropology and sociology. Focusing on the scientific and cultural history of molecular biology and biotechnology, and covering a range of contemporary... -- Course Website

Prerequisites: 24 uoc in the Environmental Studies Stream



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