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Yayın Anthropologies of men, masculinities, and reproduction(Wiley, 2023-09-21) Wentzell, Emily; Erol, Maral; Açıksöz, Salih CanIn this chapter, the authors give an overview of key findings from the English language research on men, masculinities and reproduction in sociocultural anthropology and allied fields. This research spans the globe and the range of men's reproduction-related experience. Yet, it coheres around a set of three key theoretical approaches that are also fundamental to contemporary anthropological thinking more broadly. The authors review the ways that researchers have used these shared theoretical approaches to elucidate certain topics within the arena of men and reproduction: men's gendered experiences as fathers and parents (with a subsection that focuses on the burgeoning literature on gay and trans experiences); of infertility and artificial reproduction technologies (including intersections with the literature on disability); with birth control (specifically vasectomy, condoms, and abortion); and of male sexual/reproductive aging.Yayın Unpacking the discursive construction of heirloom seeds: discourses, contests, connections(Bursa Uludağ University, 2024-08-31) Pandır, Müzeyyen; Erol, MaralThe 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.Yayın “Wanted! Ottoman Strawberry”: discursive practices of heirloom seeds in Turkey(Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), 2021-10-10) Erol, Maral; Pandır, MüzeyyenHeirloom seeds have been an oft-discussed subject in Turkey recently, especially since the introduction of a law that forbid selling of non-certified seeds in 2006, and a new by-law that passed in 2018. As material-semiotic actors, heirloom seeds are cherished both by proponents of ecological diversity who are mostly considered on the left of the political spectrum, and by nationalists and purists who are opposed to importing hybrid seeds from Israeli companies for reasons of purity and national self-sufficiency. Both parties agree on their interest in non-GMO, organic agriculture practices, yet they have different motivations for desirability of the seeds themselves, and what they represent. As such, heirloom seeds stand in the discursive junction of nationalism, ecological diversity, sustainable agriculture, and food security. This research is an analysis of the discourses of the main actors involved in agricultural policies (e.g. Ministry of Agriculture, Chamber of Agricultural Engineers, Turkey Seed Growers Association, Farmers Union, and environmental organizations). These actors engage in different kinds of knowledge production about heirloom seeds through their discursive practices, affecting the growing, purchasing, and exchange of the seeds in question. With an aim to reveal the continuities and conflicts in the discourse on heirloom seeds, we argue that heirloom seed is a site for resistance for good relations between human and more-than-human worlds, even though there is a strong tendency to co-opt it for industrial agriculture controlled with certification and patents.
