Project

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

Code

01D27819

Duration

16 December 2019 → 15 November 2024

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Christophe Verbruggen

Fellow

Ishka Desmedt

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Landscape and ecological history
- Modern and contemporary history
- Socio-economic history

Keywords

Genetically modified organisms social movements protest social network analysis

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 hopes to explain how in the eighties, a “critical community” of thinkers and activists succeeded in mobilizing a vast network of NGO’s opposed to the genetic modification of crops.