Making Post/Anthropocentric Futures in Agrobiodiversity Conservation
| Autor: | Franziska von Verschuer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Nature and Culture. 16:47-64 |
| ISSN: | 1558-5468 1558-6073 |
| DOI: | 10.3167/nc.2021.160104 |
| Popis: | Since the mid-twentieth century global modernization of agriculture, seed banking has become a core technoscientific strategy to counteract agrobiodiversity loss and ensure future food security. This article develops a post-anthropocentric reading of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as a nodal point of global ex situ conservation efforts. Based on qualitative expert interviews, I explore the rationality of crisis and salvation that underlies these efforts and discuss its roots in an anthropocentric relation to nature as a resource. By arguing that the latter produces the crises that conservation measures intend to counteract, I show how the Seed Vault conserves this resource-orientation. I then illustrate a concurrent unruliness of more-than-human worldly becoming the embracing of which, I argue, is a way for conservationism to cultivate different, non-crisic futures. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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