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<p>Amid rapid developments in gene editing and ongoing debates over food, animal, and environmental governance, gene-editing technologies are increasingly framed as solutions to sustainability, food security, and climate challenges. Existing studies, however, have tended either to focus on risk-based regulation or to treat discursive visions of technological futures as shaping governance from a distance, leaving insufficient attention to how technological futures become stabilized through everyday practices of governance and implementation. This introduction develops the concept of alteration as an analytical lens for examining how sociotechnical imaginaries are enacted, negotiated, and selectively stabilized through regulatory routines, evidentiary standards, and material interventions. Alteration directs attention to the incremental processes through which governance practices render certain futures actionable and legitimate while constraining others, often without explicit political resolution. Drawing on contributions across food, animal, and environmental domains, the symposium demonstrates how the governance of gene editing unfolds through accumulation, negotiation, and partial stabilization rather than moments of closure. By linking sociotechnical imaginaries to practices of implementation, the introduction provides a framework for analyzing how technological futures become institutionally embedded and politically consequential over time.</p>

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Altering food, animals, and environment: comparing competing sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing - introduction to the symposium

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    2026年4月23日

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  • Tomiko Yamaguchi,
  • Theresa Selfa

摘要

Amid rapid developments in gene editing and ongoing debates over food, animal, and environmental governance, gene-editing technologies are increasingly framed as solutions to sustainability, food security, and climate challenges. Existing studies, however, have tended either to focus on risk-based regulation or to treat discursive visions of technological futures as shaping governance from a distance, leaving insufficient attention to how technological futures become stabilized through everyday practices of governance and implementation. This introduction develops the concept of alteration as an analytical lens for examining how sociotechnical imaginaries are enacted, negotiated, and selectively stabilized through regulatory routines, evidentiary standards, and material interventions. Alteration directs attention to the incremental processes through which governance practices render certain futures actionable and legitimate while constraining others, often without explicit political resolution. Drawing on contributions across food, animal, and environmental domains, the symposium demonstrates how the governance of gene editing unfolds through accumulation, negotiation, and partial stabilization rather than moments of closure. By linking sociotechnical imaginaries to practices of implementation, the introduction provides a framework for analyzing how technological futures become institutionally embedded and politically consequential over time.