Sakari Tamminen is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, coauthor of Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical, and coeditor of Bio-Objects: Life in the Twenty-First Century.

List of Abbreviations  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. The New Biopolitics of Nature and the Nature of (Mis)Stakes  1
1. Finncattle: Biowealth as National Life  38
2. Alexander and the (Re)Birth of Nation: Apple Trees' Genetic Fingerprinting and the Making of a Molecular Nationhood  84
3. Stilled Life: Animal Gene Banks and New Infrastructures of Life  127
4. Experimental Administration: Genetic Sovereignty and the Institutional (Bio)Politics of Nonhuman Nationhood  173
Conclusion. Biogenetic Paradoxes of the Nation  210
Notes  223
References  237
Index  259

Sakari Tamminen is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, coauthor of Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical, and coeditor of Bio-Objects: Life in the Twenty-First Century.