Publication: From land enclosures to lab enclosures: digital sequence information, cultivated biodiversity and the movement for open-source seed systems
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2022-10-17
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Taylor and Francis Group
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4th Industrial Revolution technologies that blur the lines across physical, digital and biological domains have entered seed systems. The digitalisation of seeds' DNA is generating the unstoppable growth of big data on digital sequence information (DSI). The paper analyses the legal vacuum for DSI, which aggravates the dematerialisation and fragmentation of seed, rendering it easier to control under legal, technological, social, financial and logistical enclosures. Open-source seed is explored as a governance mechanism across physical and digital spheres. DSI emerges as a critical juncture for seed movements, revealing how the construction of seed and food sovereignty is a digital and technological affair.
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The registered version of this article, first published in The Journal of Peasant Studies, is available online at the publisher's website: Taylor and Francis Group, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2121648
La versiĂłn registrada de este artĂculo, publicado por primera vez en The Journal of Peasant Studies, está disponible en lĂnea en el sitio web del editor: Taylor and Francis Group, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2121648
La versiĂłn registrada de este artĂculo, publicado por primera vez en The Journal of Peasant Studies, está disponible en lĂnea en el sitio web del editor: Taylor and Francis Group, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2121648
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open-source seed, seed systems, 4th Industrial Revolution, digital commons, digital sequence information, seed sovereignty, enclosures, big open data, dematerialisation, digital feudalism, in situ, exsitu, in silico, res communis
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Ajates, R. (2022). From land enclosures to lab enclosures: digital sequence information, cultivated biodiversity and the movement for open source seed systems. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(3), 1056–1084. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2121648
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Facultades y escuelas::Facultad de Ciencias PolĂticas y SociologĂa
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SociologĂa II (Estructura Social)