Introduction: The Collection and Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources, Past and Present

Curry, Helen Anne

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“… 3 See Sarah Curry’s (2019) introduction to the latest edition of the journal Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment which is devoted to seed preservation movements in Britain, Norway, and elsewhere.…”

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Hope in the ruins: Seeds, plants, and possibilities of regeneration

Meneley

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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As space in the West Bank is increasingly threatened, Palestinians are turning to agro-activism to reclaim it. Alongside the established olive activism, there has been a flourishing of generative projects by which my interlocutors attempt to reclaim their space from the environmental damages of the ongoing occupation. I situate these regenerative practices in anthropological discourses about imperial ruins and the blasted landscapes of capitalist ruins. In Palestine, the debris of Israeli military incursions and the ruination of the environment with “security” infrastructures like the Wall produce ongoing occupation ruins. However, as in Tsing’s work—where ruins are presented as productive of new possibilities—here, too, hope underpins my interlocutors’ projects of planting, saving, and regenerating seeds. Their projects involve reclaiming nature through heritage seeds, eco-farming initiatives, farming cooperatives, and food circulation initiatives, thereby encouraging Palestinian food reclamation. Through their activism, Palestinians regenerate a sense of value in themselves and their futures as they attempt to reclaim their landscapes in an embodied way, rather than giving in to ruination.

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Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The Pig Community and Their Reference Genome

García-Sancho

Lowe²

2023

Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History

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This chapter introduces the story of pig genome mapping and sequencing. It presents the heterogeneous interests and activities of a small and tight-knit community, in which maps, sequencing data, resources and tools were developed for—and immediately linked to—the problems of pig breeding and transplantation biology. A community of pig genomicists converged in mapping projects that took place from the early-1990s onwards. In these initiatives, they characterised the positions of genes and genetic markers on chromosomes with a view to this information being deployed in agriculture and biomedicine. This community was intimately involved in most aspects of the creation of a reference genome, either directly or by guiding the focus of the Sanger Institute, the institution that was contracted to undertake the sequence determination. The Sanger Institute therefore had a different role in pig genomics than in yeast and human genomics. This distinct role was deeply conditioned by the historical trajectory of the pig genetics community.

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Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future

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Landström

2025

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Introduction: The Collection and Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources, Past and Present

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Hope in the ruins: Seeds, plants, and possibilities of regeneration

Hope in the ruins: Seeds, plants, and possibilities of regeneration

The Pig Community and Their Reference Genome

Studying long-term storage as material visions of the future

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