Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds: An Inquiry into Agrobiodiversity Conservation Through the Svalbard...

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Franziska von Verschuer

Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds

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An Inquiry into Agrobiodiversity Conservation Through the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Franziska von Verschuer

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Transcript Verlag
21 April 2026

Environmental economics; Business & management; Impact of science & technology on society

Series: Science Studies

How has the world lost three quarters of its crop diversity in less than a century? How does a collection of seeds frozen in the Arctic help face this loss and the growing threat of food insecurity? And how can Indigenous knowledges and artistic interventions inspire modes of dealing with agrobiodiversity loss that respond to contemporary socio-ecological transformations with care rather than techno-salvationism? Franziska von Verschuer traces these questions from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the world's stronghold against agrobiodiversity loss, to divergent worlds and modes of world-making that it assembles along with seeds - showing that the future is more open than the popular story of the ›doomsday vault‹ suggests.

By: Franziska von Verschuer
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm,
ISBN: 9783837678116
ISBN 10: 3837678113
Series: Science Studies
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 21 April 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Franziska von Verschuer is a sociologist in the Biotechnology, Nature and Society Research Group at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, where she received her PhD in 2024. She studied sociology and psychology in Freiburg, Frankfurt, and Berlin. Her research and teaching focus on environmental and post-anthropocentric sociology, science and technology studies, as well as feminist and decolonial theory and epistemology.