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Freezing Seeds and Making Futures: Endangerment, Hope, Security, and Time in Agrobiodiversity Conservation Practices
Author(s) -
Harrison Rodney
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
culture, agriculture, food and environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2153-9561
pISSN - 2153-9553
DOI - 10.1111/cuag.12096
Subject(s) - agricultural biodiversity , endangered species , futures contract , biodiversity , normative , in situ conservation , value (mathematics) , ex situ conservation , work (physics) , environmental resource management , geography , sociology , agroforestry , political science , ecology , biology , business , economics , genetic diversity , computer science , engineering , law , population , mechanical engineering , demography , finance , machine learning , habitat
This paper considers the temporal practices inherent in the work of global agrobiodiversity conservation, drawing on ongoing research with the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It contrasts the distinctive, future‐making practices inherent in the work of ex situ cold seed storage, with the normative, entropic view of the relationship of species diversity with time that arises from the field of biodiversity conservation more generally. These differences point to the value of comparative studies of natural and cultural heritage conservation practices that focus on their politics and ontologies to reveal the heterogeneity of approaches across these fields, and the different worlds they each produce in conserving their endangered objects for the future.