UID:
edoccha_9959677548202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (349 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-9480-4
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1-283-92505-2
Serie:
New ecologies for the twenty-first century
Inhalt:
Chaia Heller follows one of France's largest farmers' unions as it joins with peasants internationally to contest the hegemony of genetically modified foods, free trade, and industrial agriculture.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; About the series; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World; Part I: Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture; 2. The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan; 3. The Confédération Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency; Part II: The Confédération Paysanne's Early Anti-GMO Campaign, from Risk to Globalization; 4. Union Activism and Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture; 5. We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti-GMO Campaign
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6. The Trial of the GMOS: Deploying Discourses from Risk to GlobalizationPart III: How France Grew Its Own Alter-globalization Movement; 7. Caravans, GMOS, and McDo: The Campaign Continues; 8. Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, D.C.; 9. Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle; 10. Postindustrial Paysans in a Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities; 11. Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned?; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8223-5127-7
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9780822394808
