Globalising food : agrarian questions and global restructuring

Contributor(s): Goodman, David | Watts, MichaelMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997Description: xv, 383 p. : illustrationsISBN: 9780415162531; 041516253X (pbk.); 0415162521 (cloth)ISSN: 9780415162524 Subject(s): Food industry and trade | Agricultural industriesDDC classification: 338.1 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Agrarian questions : global appetite, local metabolism : nature, culture, and industry in fin-de-siècle agro-food systems / Michael Watts and David Goodman -- Regional integration and the family farm in the mercosul countries : new theoretical approaches as supports for alternative strategies / John Wilkinson -- Multiple trajectories of rural industrialisation : an agrarian critique of industrial restructuring and the new institutionalism / Gillian Hart -- Agrarian questions in the making of the knitwear industry in Tirupur, India : a historical geography of the industrial present / Sharad Chari --Restructuring national agriculture, agro-food trade and agrarian livelihoods in the Caribbean / Laura Raynolds -- Restructuring pork production, remaking rural Iowa / Brian Page -- Creating space for food : the distintiveness of recent agrarian development / Terry Marsden -- Agro-industrial just-in-time : the chicken industry and postwar American capitalism / William Boyd and Michael Watts -- Legal discourse and restructuring of Californian agriculture : class relations at the local level / Miriam J. Wells -- Field-level bureaucrats and the making of new moral discourses in agri-environmental controversies / Philip Lowe and Neil Ward -- Nourishing networks : alternative geographies of food / Sarah Whatmore and Lorraine Thorne -- Reopening totalities : Venezuela's restructuring and the globalisation debate / Lourdes Gouveia -- Sustainability and theory : an agenda for action / Michael Redclift -- Some observations on agro-food change and the future of agricultural sustainability movements / Frederick H. Buttel.
Summary: Using case studies from Britain, the USA, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America, this text explores the increasing industrializiation of agriculture throughout the world and the changing international divisions of labour that result, as new commodities and new suppliers emerge.
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"This book emerged from a workshop on 'Agrarian questions and the restructuring of the agro-food system' held on the Berkeley campus of the University of California, on 28-30 September 1995"--Ackn.

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Agrarian questions : global appetite, local metabolism : nature, culture, and industry in fin-de-siècle agro-food systems / Michael Watts and David Goodman --
Regional integration and the family farm in the mercosul countries : new theoretical approaches as supports for alternative strategies / John Wilkinson --
Multiple trajectories of rural industrialisation : an agrarian critique of industrial restructuring and the new institutionalism / Gillian Hart --
Agrarian questions in the making of the knitwear industry in Tirupur, India : a historical geography of the industrial present / Sharad Chari --Restructuring national agriculture, agro-food trade and agrarian livelihoods in the Caribbean / Laura Raynolds --
Restructuring pork production, remaking rural Iowa / Brian Page --
Creating space for food : the distintiveness of recent agrarian development / Terry Marsden --
Agro-industrial just-in-time : the chicken industry and postwar American capitalism / William Boyd and Michael Watts --
Legal discourse and restructuring of Californian agriculture : class relations at the local level / Miriam J. Wells --
Field-level bureaucrats and the making of new moral discourses in agri-environmental controversies / Philip Lowe and Neil Ward --
Nourishing networks : alternative geographies of food / Sarah Whatmore and Lorraine Thorne --
Reopening totalities : Venezuela's restructuring and the globalisation debate / Lourdes Gouveia --
Sustainability and theory : an agenda for action / Michael Redclift --
Some observations on agro-food change and the future of agricultural sustainability movements / Frederick H. Buttel.

Using case studies from Britain, the USA, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America, this text explores the increasing industrializiation of agriculture throughout the world and the changing international divisions of labour that result, as new commodities and new suppliers emerge.

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