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dc.contributor.authorGhose, Rana Janak
dc.coverage.spatialIndiaen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-24T11:36:53Z
dc.date.available2014-10-24T11:36:53Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationGhose, Rana Janak (2011) Regulating GMOs in India: pragmatism, politics, representation, and risk. Doctoral thesis, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4901
dc.description.abstractAt the core of any effort by a nation state to regulate new technologies for public release is an implicit navigation of uncertainty. The case of Bt cotton in India presents a very timely and pragmatic example of how nation states grapple with uncertainty in a regulatory context. While much attention has been given to how government actors form regulation, far less is given to how actors outside of the government spheres act as catalysts for regulatory reform. In practice, it is often these parties that drive regulation as a process. The question is how. This paper outlines the findings of fieldwork conducted in India between March 2007 and July 2009 in addressing this central question: what does regulation really mean in a context where new technologies burdened with uncertain consequences are introduced? How do preferences, decisions, and regulatory norms adapt to this introduction based on the interactions of a multitude of parties acting on multiple framings of understanding what risk means? The conclusion is that regulation – in the context of Bt cotton in India - is far from a set of government policies derived from scientific measures of risk assessment. Civil society, firms, and farmers themselves all have tremendous influence on how a nation state navigates uncertainty in a regulatory context. It is a process forged on risk interfaces, where constructions of risk both complement and oppose one another. The actors involved enter these spaces, invited or otherwise. What the government may have initially imagined as ‘regulation’ is subject to multiple technical, economic, and political framings of risk from each actor. As a result, regulation is a coevolutionary, co-constructed process. This process of negotiating these spaces is what regulation really means.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Sussexen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen_GB
dc.subjectAgricultureen_GB
dc.subjectDevelopment Policyen_GB
dc.subjectScience and Societyen_GB
dc.subjectTechnologyen_GB
dc.titleRegulating GMOs in India: pragmatism, politics, representation, and risken_GB
dc.typeThesisen_GB
dc.rights.holderThe authoren_GB
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://sro.sussex.ac.uk/7579/en_GB
dc.identifier.koha215818


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