Project

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

Code
01CD16923
Duration
16 December 2023 → 15 December 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
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.