Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring

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ISBN: 9780415162524 | 0415162521
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Copyright: 12/10/1997

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Big Macs, chickens and cut flowers are commodities beginning to dominate the global agro-food system. Using case studies from the US, Britain, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America,Globalising Foodaddresses the key themes that are transforming the character of the traditional agricultural communities, ranging from multinational food corporations and World Bank policies, to regulation of pollution and labor relations.

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Notes on Contributors

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(3)

Acknowledgements

1 AGRARIAN QUESTIONS: GLOBAL APPETITE, LOCAL METABOLISM: NATURE, CULTURE, AND INDUSTRY IN FIN-DE-SIECLE AGRO-FOOD SYSTEMS

(34)

Michael Watts

David Goodman

Part I Institutions, embeddedness and agrarian trajectories

(84)

2 REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND THE FAMILY FARM IN THE MERCOSUL COUNTRIES: NEW THEORETICAL APPROACHES AS SUPPORTS FOR ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES

(21)

John Wilkinson

3 MULTIPLE TRAJECTORIES OF RURAL INDUSTRIALISATION: AN AGRARIAN CRITIQUE OF INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING AND THE NEW INSTITUTIONALISM

(23)

Gillian Hart

4 AGRARIAN QUESTIONS IN THE MAKING OF THE KNITWEAR INDUSTRY IN TIRUPUR, INDIA: A HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE INDUSTRIAL PRESENT

(27)

Sharad Chari

COMMENTARY ON PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS

106

(13)

Norman Long

Part II Restructuring, industry and regional dynamics

119

(50)

5 RESTRUCTURING NATIONAL AGRICULTURE, AGRO-FOOD TRADE, AND AGRARIAN LIVELIHOODS IN THE CARIBBEAN

119

(14)

Laura Raynolds

6 RESTRUCTURING PORK PRODUCTION, REMAKING RURAL IOWA

133

(25)

Brian Page

COMMENTARY ON PART II: REGIONS IN GLOBAL CONTEXT? RESTRUCTURING, INDUSTRY, AND REGIONAL DYNAMICS

158

(11)

Margaret FitzSimmons

Part III Globalisation, value and regulation in the commodity system

169

(66)

7 CREATING SPACE FOR FOOD: THE DISTINCTIVENESS OF RECENT AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT

169

(23)

Terry Marsden

8 AGRO-INDUSTRIAL JUST-IN-TIME: THE CHICKEN INDUSTRY AND POSTWAR AMERICAN CAPITALISM

192

(34)

William Boyd

Michael Watts

COMMENTARY ON PART III: `CREATING SPACE FOR FOOD' AND `AGRO-INDUSTRIAL JUST-IN-TIME'

226

(9)

William H. Friedland

Part IV Discourse and class, networks and accumulation

235

(52)

9 LEGAL DISCOURSE AND THE RESTRUCTURING OF CALIFORNIAN AGRICULTURE: CLASS RELATIONS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

235

(21)

Miriam J. Wells

10 FIELD-LEVEL BUREAUCRATS AND THE MAKING OF NEW MORAL DISCOURSES IN AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROVERSIES

256

(17)

Philip Lowe

Neil Ward

COMMENTARY ON PART IV: FIELDS OF DREAMS, OR THE BEST GAME IN TOWN

273

(14)

Richard A. Walker

Part V Transnational capital and local responses

287

(46)

11 NOURISHING NETWORKS: ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF FOOD

287

(18)

Sarah Whatmore

Lorraine Thorne

12 REOPENING TOTALITIES: VENEZUELA'S RESTRUCTURING AND THE GLOBALISATION DEBATE

305

(19)

Lourdes Gouveia

COMMENTARY ON PART V: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS: TRANSNATIONAL CAPITAL AND ITS ALTERNATIVES

324

(9)

Anthony Winson

Part VI Nature, sustainability and the agrarian question

333

(42)

13 SUSTAINABILITY AND THEORY: AN AGENDA FOR ACTION

333

(11)

Michael Redclift

14 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON AGRO-FOOD CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENTS

344

(22)

Frederick H. Buttel

COMMENTARY ON PART VI: SUSTAINABILITY AND INSTITUTION BUILDING: ISSUES AND PROSPECTS AS SEEN FROM NEW ZEALAND

366

(9)

Richard Le Heron

Michael Roche

Index

375

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