1st Edition
The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector Crisis, Resilience, and Restructuring
Introduction
Steven A. Wolf and Alessandro Bonanno
Part 1: Theoretical Analyses and Key Concepts
1. The Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberal Globalization: Instances from Agriculture and Food
Alessandro Bonanno
2. How Neoliberal Myths Endanger Democracy and Open New Avenues for Democratic Action
Lawrence Busch
3. Policing the New Enclosures: On Violence, Primitive Accumulation, and Crisis in the Neoliberal Food System
Morgan Buck
Part 2: Case Studies
4. The Rise and Fall of a Prairie Giant: the Canadian Wheat Board in Food Regime History
André Magnan
5. Navigating the Neoliberal-Nativist Interface: Farmer Survival and the Construction of Racially Segregated Workplaces
Jill Harrison
6. Creating Rupture through Policy: Considering the Importance of Ideas in Agrifood Change
Rebecca L. Som Castellano
7. Beyond Farming: Cases of Revitalization of Rural Communities through Multi-Role Community Farming Enterprise as Social Service Provider
Haruhiko Iba and Kiyohiko Sakamoto
Part 3: Research Opportunities
8. To Bt or not to Bt? State, Civil Society, and Firms Debate GM Seeds in Democratic India
Devparna Roy
9. Turning of the Tide: Rising Discontent over Transgenic Crops in Brazil
Karine Peschard
10. U.S. Agrienvironmental Policy: Neoliberalization of Nature Meets Old Public Management
Steven A. Wolf
11. For Competitiveness Sake?: Material Competition vs. Competitiveness as a National Project
Anouk Patel-Campillo
12. The Neoliberal Food Regime in Latin America: State, Agribusiness Transnational Corporations and Biotechnology
Gerardo Otero
13. ‘Just Another Asset Class’?: Neoliberalism, Finance, and the Construction of Farmland Investment
Madeleine Fairbairn
14. Neoliberalism in the Antipodes: Understanding the Influence and Limits of the Neoliberal Political Project
Geoffrey Lawrence Hugh Campbell
15. Conclusion: The Plasticity and Contested Terrain of Neoliberalism
Steven A. Wolf and Alessandro Bonanno
Biography
Steven A. Wolf is Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University, New York, USA. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, University of London, UK.
Alessandro Bonanno is Texas State University System Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA.
