Towards a Geography of Bodily Biotechnologies

• DOI: 10.1068/a38514
• Publication Date: 2006-03-06T10:43:25Z
• Authors: Beth Greenhough; Emma Roe
• Keywords: 13. Climate action; 05 social sciences; 0507 social and economic geography; 300; 301

Guest Editorial. Since Katz and Kirby (1991) noted the challenge biotechnology presented to existing understandings of relationship between an externalised nature human individual, geographers have increasingly begun venture into complex fascinating spaces mapped out by advances in life sciences. The political, economic, cultural, theoretical implications hybrid entities, such as genetically modified (GM) foods, transgenetic organisms, genetic medicine, attracted much critical attention from geographers, not least because they question perceived boundaries culture, self world, nonhuman that are echoed ^ physical divide within geographical discipline itself. This has led calls for a new kind biogeography would put `life back discipline' which be `proactive rather than reactive' (Castree, 1999) when faced with opportunities shape political social context newly emerging biotechnologies. As Bridge et al (2003, page 165) noted, ``doing biotechnology'' ``raise[s] questions analytical opportuniti es geography require creation modes inquiry, [the] development alter native frameworks, or experimentation creative practice''.