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Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction
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- ISBN
- 9780520307681
- Book Title
- Endangered Maize : Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Nature, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Latin America / Mexico, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Agriculture / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 20.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity. Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what this transition means for the future of food, scientists, farmers, and eaters have sought to protect fruits, grains, and vegetables they consider endangered. They have organized high-tech genebanks and heritage seed swaps. They have combed fields for ancient landraces and sought farmers growing Indigenous varieties. Behind this widespread concern for the loss of plant diversity lies another extinction narrative that concerns the survival of farmers themselves, a story that is often obscured by urgent calls to collect and preserve. Endangered Maize draws on the rich history of corn in Mexico and the United States to uncover this hidden narrative and show how it shaped the conservation strategies adopted by scientists, states, and citizens. In Endangered Maize , historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more than a hundred years of agriculture and conservation practices to understand the tasks that farmers and researchers have considered essential to maintaining crop diversity. Through the contours of efforts to preserve diversity in one of the world's most important crops, Curry reveals how those who sought to protect native, traditional, and heritage crops forged their methods around the expectation that social, political, and economic transformations would eliminate diverse communities and cultures. In this fascinating study of how cultural narratives shape science, Curry argues for new understandings of endangerment and alternative strategies to protect and preserve crop diversity.
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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520307682
ISBN-13
9780520307681
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21050078942
Product Key Features
Book Title
Endangered Maize : Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Latin America / Mexico, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Agriculture / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Sb191.M2c867 2022
Reviews
Maize diversity is threatened by many factors, as science historian Helen Curry expertly discusses with specialists., An excellent, captivating description of the origins, ideas, and motivations behind the narratives of maize as an endangered genetic resource and how these narratives have shaped the methods and tools of conservation adopted by scientists and states. . . . As a historian, Curry skillfully recounts the origins and evolution of narratives of extinction of indigenous landraces and conservation strategies, highlighting the complexity of preservation initiatives and the multiple actors involved and suggesting pathways for the future. A key merit of her account is a sound understanding of underlying aspects of the biology and genetics of maize and its conservation.", Endangered Maize ... is a provocative contribution to analysis of the endangerment sensibility that continues to shape our responses to the very real threats our planet faces., What Curry analyzes through deft and accessible writing is not so much the danger maize faces, but the ways we understand it, and the narratives we use to tell its stories, which shape conservation efforts.
Table of Content
Contents List of Figures Acronyms Introduction 1 * Collect 2 * Classify 3 * Preserve 4 * Copy 5 * Negotiate 6 * Evaluate 7 * Grow Coda Acknowledgments Notes Archives and Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2022
Lccn
2021-016955
Dewey Decimal
633.15
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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