Format:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415162524
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9780203444894
Content:
Explores the increasing industrializiation of agri culture throughout the world and the changing inte rnational divisions of labour that result as new commodities and new suppliers emerge
Note:
Intro -- GLOBALISING FOOD Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Agrarian Questions: Global Appetite, Local Metabolism: Nature, Culture, and Industry in Fin-de-Siecle Agro-Food Systems -- Part I: Institutions, Embeddedness and Agrarian Trajectories -- 2 Regional Integration and The Family Farm in The Mercosul Countries: New Theoretical Approaches as Supports for Alternative Strategies -- 3 Multiple Trajectories of Rural Industrialisation: An Agrarian Critique of Industrial Restructuring and The New Institutionalism -- 4 Agrarian Questions in The Making of The Knitwear Industry in Tirupur, India: A Historical Geography of The Industrial Present -- Commentary on Part I: Theoretical Reflections -- Part 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 -- Commentary on Part II: Regions in Global Context? Restructuring, Industry, and Regional Dynamics -- Part III: Globalisation, Value and Regulation in the Commodity System -- 7 Creating Space for Food: The Distinctiveness of Recent Agrarian Development -- 8 Agro-Industrial Just-in-Time: The Chicken Industry and Postwar American Capitalism -- Commentary on Part III: 'Creating Space for Food' and 'Agroindustrial Just-in-Time' -- Part IV: Discourse and Class, Networks and Accumulation -- 9 Legal Discourse and The Restructuring of Californian Agriculture: Class Relations at The Local Level -- 10 Field-Level Bureaucrats and The Making of New Moral Discourses in Agri-Environmental Controversies -- Commentary on Part IV: Fields of Dreams, or The Best Game in Town -- Part V: Transnational Capital and Local Responses
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11 Nourishing Networks: Alternative Geographies of Food -- 12 Reopening Totalities: Venezuela's Restructuring and The Globalisation Debate -- Commentary on Part V: Theoretical Reflections: Transnational Capital and Its Alternatives -- Part VI: Nature, Sustainability and The Agrarian Question -- 13 Sustainability and Theory: An Agenda for Action -- 14 Some Observations on Agro-Food Change and The Future of Agricultural Sustainability Movements -- Commentary on Part VI: Sustainability and Institution Building: Issues and Prospects as Seen From New Zealand -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Goodman, David Globalising Food Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1997 ISBN 9780415162524
Language:
English
Keywords:
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