全球化与转基因问题的政治想象

Globalization and the Political Imagination of GM Issues

伴随着全球化的进程,转基因农作物及其商业性种植流布越来越广,在世界各地引起广泛争议。这说明,全球化不仅是经济的全球化,同时也是问题的全球化。转基因作物是否危害人类健康和环境,目前在国际上无法从科学权威角度证明,对其持否定和批评态度的群体往往出于某种意识形态的诉求,这点在中国表现得尤其深刻。中国已进入风险社会,有关转基因之争在中国被政治化,反转基因成为表达不满的"猎巫"运动,并与怀旧和阴谋论交织在一起,构成当下中国社会对现行体制和政策进行"每日抗争"的一种社会景观与政治想象。之所以如此,政府公信力下降和腐败的盛行是重要原因。

Accompanied by globalization, GM crops and their commercial cultivation have been spread to a broader extent, resulting in widespread controversy around the world. This indicates that globalization is not only economic globalization, but also globalization of problems. Whether GM crops are harmful to human health and the environment is cuirenfly unable to prove from the perspective of scientific authority in today＇s world. The groups of people who criticize GM crops tend to show certain ideological demands, which is particularly apparent in China. China has entered the stage of ＂risk society＂, and the fight about genetically modified food in China has been politicized, and the anti-GM campaign has been turned into a ＂witch-hunt＂ campaign to express discontent, intertwined with nostalgia and conspiracy theory to constitute a kind of social landscape and political imagination in the contemporary Chinese society in the form of ＂day-to-day fight＂ against the current policies and system. The causes can be found with the undermined credibility of government and prevalence of corruption.