The past shall not begin: Frozen seeds, extended presents and the politics of reversibility
The article analyzes the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) as a specific security technology created to deal with the ecological threat of biodiversity loss. Built in 2008 inside the Arctic Circle, the SGSV serves as a backup for 1,700 agricultural gene banks around the world. If seed collections ar...
| Published in: | Security Dialogue |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2020
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010620912961 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0967010620912961 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0967010620912961 |