The Bio Politic: Markets in Biology, Bodies and Information

“After 200 years of bees, let’s have 200 years of honey.” So proposed a T-shirt issued by the Haitian government

“We did not come here to invite you to die or to kill; instead we came here to invite you

As the tri-colored presidential sash was draped over the shoulder of Evo Morales on January 22, tears welled up in

Bioprospecting is a relatively new name for a well-established practice. The term was coined by sustainable development advocates in the

Economic historian Karl Polanyi had a name for things not originally produced for sale on the market: he called them

Every June 30, the Guatemalan military parades down the streets of Guatemala City in full pomp and splendor to commemorate

In “Cuba: New Partners and Old Limits” [September/October 2005, “Empire and Dissent”] Daniela Spenser calls for Cuba to devolve into

International Zapatismo: The Construction of Solidarity in the Age of Globalization by Thomas Olesen, 2005. Zed Books, 256 pages, $27.50

Just as automakers and apparel manufacturers have fled the stringent labor and environmental laws of developed countries to set up

More than a decade ago, the authors of the once-groundbreaking book Biodiversity Prospecting argued that lifesaving drugs from genetic and

On January 3, after years of an openly hostile relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Argentina cleared its entire

Stephen Frears’ film Dirty Pretty Things treats the traffic in human frailty and vulnerability in the shadowy underworld of immigrant