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Unpacking the discursive construction of heirloom seeds: Discourses, contests, connections

dc.contributor.authorPandır, Müzeyyen
dc.contributor.authorErol, Maral
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-11T06:47:56Z
dc.date.available2024-10-11T06:47:56Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-28
dc.description.abstractThe 2006 Turkish Seed Law prohibited the selling of uncertified heirloom seeds, triggering heated debates on and around seeds. This paper examines the construction of discourses on heirloom seeds in Türkiye, focusing on the arguments of the key social actors in the field with a view to understand how knowledge production is taking place on seed. Conducting interviews with key state and non-state actors and analyzing their published documents related to heirloom seed through discourse-historical approach, we examined the argumentative perspectives shaping the discourse on seed. The results revealed a discursive dichotomy constructed between "heirloom seed" and "certified hybrid seeds." In particular, built on commercial and food security concerns, the state discourse frames heirloom seeds as low-yield and unable to feed the nation in comparison to certified hybrid seeds, whereas non-state discourse using the perspectives of agrobiodiversity and farmers’ sovereignty construct heirloom seeds with superior features, qualifying them as compatible with biodiversity and the current global and regional economic, environmental and climate problems. The study concludes that different perspectives and interests produced contradictory knowledge about seed (hence food) and caused different realities to exist simultaneously within this knowledge.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.37093/ijsi.1481119
dc.identifier.endpage231
dc.identifier.issn1307-9999
dc.identifier.issn1307-8364
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage215
dc.identifier.urihttps://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/3917373
dc.identifier.urihttps://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijsi/issue/86648/1481119
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11452/46261
dc.identifier.volume17
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBursa Uludağ Üniversitesi
dc.relation.journalInternational Journal of Social Inquiry
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectSeed
dc.subjectHeirloom seed
dc.subjectKnowledge production
dc.subjectDiscursive construction
dc.subjectDiscourse-historical approach
dc.titleUnpacking the discursive construction of heirloom seeds: Discourses, contests, connections
dc.typeArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication

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