War by other means: a genealogy of "improvement" from John Locke to genetically engineered food aid
| dc.contributor.author | Pasternak, Shiri | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Tully, James | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-12-03T17:32:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-12-03T17:32:33Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2005 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-12-03T17:32:33Z | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of English | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | How can we think of power in the form of a seed? This thesis will trace the discourse of "improvement" from its seventeenth century use by John Locke to justify the appropriation of Aboriginal lands in North America to the inter-locked languages of improvement and development in the twenty-first century in the context of genetically engineered food aid. This paper also explores the nature of sovereignty in a biopolitical age, arguing that the improvement discourse is operationalized on the ground through a diffuse power that trades on claims of improving the bios as whole. The paper concludes with a discussion of the food sovereignty movement as a possible practical and epistemological break for farmers in the Global North and South from the hegemony of this war by other means. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1936 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en |
| dc.subject | genetically modified foods | en |
| dc.subject | government policy | en |
| dc.subject | Africa | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences | en |
| dc.title | War by other means: a genealogy of "improvement" from John Locke to genetically engineered food aid | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |