Disrupting Maize: Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico

Disrupting Maize: Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico

Author
Gabriela Méndez Cota
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language
English
Year
2016
Page
218
ISBN
1783486066,9781783486069
File Type
pdf
File Size
1.0 MiB

Disrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of the symbol and the staple food of the Mexican nation. As the centre of origin and genetic diversification of maize, the Mexican territory is regarded today as being under threat of irreversible ‘contamination’ by genetically engineered maize, an imported biotechnological product. When the first evidences of such ‘contamination’ were found in 2001, an anti-GM movement was born that quickly became articulated as a defence of cultural identity and national sovereignty.

Disrupting Maize mobilizes contemporary theoretical resources in a critical examination of the cultural politics at work in the Mexican defence of maize. From such an examination ‘biotechnological disruption’ emerges provocatively as constitutive of Mexican nationalism rather than externally imposed to it by corporate players. Furthermore, it is conceptualized as a gift, a promise of a more democratic Mexico.

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