Modernity Contextualises New Zealand's Royal Commission on Genetic Modification: A Discourse Analysis

Tee Rogers-Hayden; Richard Hindmarsh

doi:10.26686/jnzs.v0i1.79

Modernity Contextualises New Zealand's Royal Commission on Genetic Modification: A Discourse Analysis

Authors

Tee Rogers-Hayden
Richard Hindmarsh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.v0i1.79

Abstract

The New Zealand's Royal Commission on Genetic Modification (RCGM)'s report was released in the year 2001. RCGM's findings supports the ongoing development of genetic engineering in New Zealand and recommends the recommencement of genetic modification field trials.

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Author Biographies

Tee Rogers-Hayden

currently studying for a doctorate in geography at the University of Waikato. She has been the recipient of a University of Waikato Scholarship and was in 2001 a New Zealand Graduate Women Fellow. Her co-authored paper draws from her doctoral study ‘A Taste of Things to Come? Deconstructing the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification’.

Richard Hindmarsh

teaches Nature and Technoscience in the Contemporary Studies Programme at the University of Queensland, Ipswich. Concentrating on the issue of genetic engineering or modification (GM) since the late 1980s, he has written numerous articles and book chapters on the topic. The senior editor and co-author of Altered Genes II: The Future (2000), he has recently submitted for publication a social history of the genetic engineering debate in Australia.

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2002-01-01

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No. 1 (2002): Journal of New Zealand Studies

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