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Project

Tracing the Roots of Resistance: Critical Communities and the Protest against Genetically Modified Organisms in Belgium, The Netherlands and France

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01CD16923

Duration

16 December 2023 → 15 December 2024

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Christophe Verbruggen

Fellow

Ishka Desmedt

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Socio-economic history

Keywords

protest social network analysis social movements environmental activism Genetically modified organisms

Project description

The aim of this project is to uncover the historical roots of the anti-GMO movement in Belgium, The Netherlands and France. By using archival sources and oral history, this research explains how in the eighties, a critical community of activists succeeded in mobilizing a vast network opposed to the genetic modification of crops.

English

Dutch

English

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