环境及其知识形式：印度转基因作物的监管

IF 1.1 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.1177/0169796X211001235

Aniket Aga

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关于转基因作物的激烈争论已经在印度肆虐了20多年。本文分析了印度对转基因作物的监管制度，重点介绍了国家官僚机构了解环境的模式。它认为，两种认识论——科学和法律行政——是环境保护的基础。通过揭示监管纠纷的过程，我证明了官僚机构不仅有等级划分，而且还被横向的职能专业划分。因此，环境作为一种技术话语和治国方略之间存在着固有的模糊性。这种模糊性既促进又限制了民主参与政策决策，甚至可能以意想不到的方式部分破坏权力关系。

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Environment and its Forms of Knowledge: The Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops in India

A fierce controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops has been raging in India for over two decades. Analyzing India’s regulatory regime for GM crops, this article focuses on the modes through which state bureaucracies know the environment. It argues that two epistemologies - scientific and legal-administrative – underpin environment protection. By unraveling the course of regulatory disputes, I demonstrate that bureaucracies are not just hierarchically divided but are also segmented by horizontal, functional specializations. There is thus an inherent ambiguity lodged between environment as a technical discourse and as statecraft. This ambiguity both fosters and constrains democratic participation in policy decisions and can even partially disrupt power relations in unanticipated ways.

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Journal of Developing Societies DEVELOPMENT STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Developing Societies is a refereed international journal on development and social change in all societies. JDS provides an interdisciplinary forum for the publication of theoretical perspectives, research findings, case studies, policy analyses and normative critiques on the issues, problems and policies associated with both mainstream and alternative approaches to development. The scope of the journal is not limited to articles on the Third World or the Global South, rather it encompasses articles on development and change in the "developed" as well as "developing" societies of the world. The journal seeks to represent the full range of diverse theoretical and ideological viewpoints on development that exist in the contemporary international community.