Molecular life

A Companion to Social Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 257-274

  Davies, Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Identification of links between social geographies and biological agencies not being new; Intersections, between biology, society and space social geography's engagement with questions of molecular life; Matters and meaning molecular life; Matters of more than social life between social geography and molecular life; Mobilization of molecular life genealogy of molecular life, enquiry within social sciences; Molecular life, shift in contradictory dimensions complexity and reductionism, hope and fear; Motivation for research role of space, relation in development of post genomics; Sitting in an overly air conditioned room at a geography conference; Social life, achievement nonhuman practices and agencies, place and a value in imaginative negotiation of collective life; Three research tactics, early empirical experiments tracing social geographies of molecular life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870656919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395211.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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