Globalising Food : Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring

ISBN-13: 9780415162524 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 400 str.

David Goodman; Michael J. Watts

Opis

Uses a series of wide-ranging case studies from Britain, the United States, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America to show how the agro food system - how we are all provisioned in food and agricultural products - is global in scope, but also how it differs from manufacturing. This book reveals the importance of new forces at work which are reshaping how agriculture is being industrialized and what some of its consequences and limits are around the world. The industrialization of nature often runs up against problems thrown up by its biological characteristics - health, consumer needs, the limits of genetic manipulation or environmental sustainablity. The case studies also show how the place of agriculture in the international division of labour is changing as new agricultural countries are emerging, and as new commodities (such as fresh fruits and vegetables) and actors (the fast food chains and retailers) begin to dominate the global agro-food system.

Recenzje

'Globalising Food is a significant contribution to a new radical critique of globalization.' - Tim Lang, Times Higher Education Supplement

'This book is an important and valuable contribution to the study of food and agriculture.' - Environment and Planning

'Presenting rich empirical accounts of so many geographic regions and extending theoretical debate ... this is a wonderful edited collection which will undoubtedly prove invaluable to researchers working in the areas of critical geography, political economy and international development.' - Economic Geography Research Group

Spis treści

1: Agrarian Questions; I: Institutions, Embeddedness and Agrarian Trajectories; 2: Regional Integration and the Family Farm in the Mercosul Countries; 3: Multiple Trajectories of Rural Industrialisation; 4: Agrarian Questions in the Making of the Knitwear Industry in Tirupur, India; I: Commentary On Part I; II: Restructuring, Industry and Regional Dynamics; 5: Restructuring National Agriculture, Agro-Food Trade, and Agrarian Livelihoods in the Caribbean; 6: Restructuring Pork Production, Remaking Rural Iowa; II: Commentary On Part II; III: Globalisation, Value and Regulation in the Commodity System; 7: Creating Space For Food; 8: Agro-Industrial Just-In-Time; III: Commentary On Part III; IV: Discourse and Class, Networks and Accumulation; 9: Legal Discourse and the Restructuring of Californian Agriculture; 10: Field-Level Bureaucrats And The Making Of New Moral Discourses In Agri-Environmental Controversies; IV: Commentary On Part IV; V: Transnational Capital and Local Responses; 11: Nourishing Networks; 12: Reopening Totalities; V: Commentary On Part V; VI: Nature, Sustainability and the Agrarian Question; 13: Sustainability And Theory; 14: Some Observations on Agro-Food Change and the Future of Agricultural Sustainability Movements; VI: Commentary On Part VI

O autorze

David Goodman, Michael Watts