Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime: A Critical Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781138723375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 238 str.

Alessandro Bonanno; Steven A. Wolf

Opis

Through a set of thematic and case study chapters, this volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: The Corporate Domination of Agri-Food  1. Is Resistance Futile? How Global Agri-Food Attempts to Co-opt the Alternatives  2. Best Practices: The Artificial Negativity of Agri-Food  3. Accountability, Rationality, and Politics: Critical Analysis of Agri-environmental Policy Reform in USA  4. Market Civilization’ and Global Agri-Food: Understanding their Dynamics and (In)Coherence through Multiple Resistances  5. Resistance to the Neoliberal Food Regime in the Sphere of Consumption: Considering the Importance of Mental Labor in Food Provisioning  Part II: Resistance and/through the State  6. Reflecting on Counter-Hegemonic Strategies of Food and Nutritional Security: Notes on the Brazilian Case  7.Geographical Indication and Resistance in Global Agri-Food: The Case of Miso in Japan  8. Community Action, Government Support and Historical Distance: Enabling Transformation or Neoliberal Inclusions?  Part III: The diversity of Resistance  9. Peasant Resistance to the Transnationalization of Agriculture in Mexico’s South Frontier  10. Communities Against Capital? The Politics of Palm Oil Expansion in Colombia’s Middle Magdalena  11. Resisting Monsanto: Monarch Butterflies and Cyber-Actors  12. Haiti – Open for Business’: New Perspectives on Inclusive and Sustainable Development  13. Imperfect, Partial, and Interstitial: Gradations of Resistance in a Failed Food Hub  Conclusions: The Contradictions of Resistance to Neoliberal Agri-Food