Unpacking the discursive construction of heirloom seeds: discourses, contests, connections

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dc.authorid0000-0003-1590-4689
dc.authorid0000-0002-1648-2492
dc.contributor.authorPandır, Müzeyyenen_US
dc.contributor.authorErol, Maralen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-08T13:08:38Z
dc.date.available2025-07-08T13:08:38Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-31
dc.departmentIşık Üniversitesi, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Bölümüen_US
dc.departmentIşık University, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.description.abstractThe 2006 Turkish Seed Law prohibited the selling of uncertified heirloom seeds, triggering heated debates on and around seeds. This paper examines the construction of discourses on heirloom seeds in Türkiye, focusing on the arguments of the key social actors in the field with a view to understand how knowledge production is taking place on seed. Conducting interviews with key state and non-state actors and analyzing their published documents related to heirloom seed through discourse-historical approach, we examined the argumentative perspectives shaping the discourse on seed. The results revealed a discursive dichotomy constructed between "heirloom seed" and "certified hybrid seeds." In particular, built on commercial and food security concerns, the state discourse frames heirloom seeds as low-yield and unable to feed the nation in comparison to certified hybrid seeds, whereas non-state discourse using the perspectives of agrobiodiversity and farmers’ sovereignty construct heirloom seeds with superior features, qualifying them as compatible with biodiversity and the current global and regional economic, environmental and climate problems. The study concludes that different perspectives and interests produced contradictory knowledge about seed (hence food) and caused different realities to exist simultaneously within this knowledge.en_US
dc.description.versionPublisher's Versionen_US
dc.identifier.citationPandır, M. & Erol, M. (2024). Unpacking the discursive construction of heirloom seeds: discourses, contests, connections. International Journal of Social Inquiry, 17(2), 215-231. doi:https://doi.org/10.37093/ijsi.1481119en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.37093/ijsi.1481119
dc.identifier.endpage231
dc.identifier.issn1307-8364
dc.identifier.issn1307-9999
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage215
dc.identifier.trdizinid1260169
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11729/6540
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.37093/ijsi.1481119
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1260169
dc.identifier.volume17
dc.indekslendigikaynakSobiaden_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizinen_US
dc.institutionauthorPandır, Müzeyyenen_US
dc.institutionauthorErol, Maralen_US
dc.institutionauthorid0000-0003-1590-4689
dc.institutionauthorid0000-0002-1648-2492
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.publisherBursa Uludağ Universityen_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Social Inquiryen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectSeeden_US
dc.subjectHeirloom seeden_US
dc.subjectKnowledge productionen_US
dc.subjectDiscursive constructionen_US
dc.subjectDiscourse-historical approachen_US
dc.titleUnpacking the discursive construction of heirloom seeds: discourses, contests, connectionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dspace.entity.typePublicationen_US

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