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Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds
An Inquiry into Agrobiodiversity Conservation Through the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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Franziska von Verschuer
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
How has the world lost three quarters of its crop diversity in less than a century? How does a collection of seeds frozen in the Arctic help face this loss and ensure future food security? And how can Indigenous knowledges and artistic interventions inspire modes of dealing with agrobiodiversity loss that respond to contemporary socio-ecological transformations with care rather than techno-salvationism? Franziska von Verschuer traces these questions from the world's stronghold against agrobiodiversity loss, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, to divergent worlds and modes of world-making it assembles along with seeds. This study shows that the future is more open than the popular story of the ›doomsday vault‹ suggests.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
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1. A Short History of Agrobiodiversity Loss and Conservation
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2. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Agrobiodiversity Conservation in Social- Scientific Research
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3. Exploring the Naturalcultural History and Politics of Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault
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4. Assembling World(ing)s of Conservation
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5. Conserving (Hi)Stories, Cultivating Futures
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6. Coda
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Acknowledgments
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Index of Abbreviations
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References
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 9, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783839412596
Edition:
Auflage - Neueauflage
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
300
Illustrations:
1
Coloured Illustrations:
2
