This study examines the rise of organic agriculture from a social movement perspective, comparing it with other environmental movements. It shows how the movement reflected social and political ideologies of the times, including the far-right in the 1940s and resistance to GM crops more recently.
This study examines the rise of organic agriculture from a social movement perspective, comparing it with other environmental movements. It shows how ...
This book investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as a social movement. Using the tools of political sociology it analyzes and explains how both people and ideas have shaped a movement that from its inception aimed to change global agriculture. Starting from the British Empire in the 1930's, where the first trans-national roots of organic farming took hold, through to the internet-mediated social protests against genetically modified crops at the end of the twentieth century, the author traces the rise to prominence of the movement. As well as providing a historical account,...
This book investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as a social movement. Using the tools of political sociology it analyzes and expla...
