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Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime: A Critical Analysis book cover

1st Edition

Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime A Critical Analysis

Edited By Alessandro Bonanno, Steven A. Wolf Copyright 2018
248 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to generate a coherent, informed and updated analysis of resistance in agri-food, empirical and theoretical contributions analyze the relationship between expressions of the neoliberal corporate system and various projects of opposition. Contributions... Read more

Introduction

Alessandro Bonanno and Steven Wolf

Part I: The Corporate Domination of Agri-Food

  1. Is Resistance Futile? How Global Agri-Food Attempts to Co-opt the Alternatives

    2. Lawrence Busch

  2. Best Practices: The Artificial Negativity of Agri-Food

    3. Alessandro Bonanno

  3. Accountability, Rationality, and Politics: Critical Analysis of Agri-environmental Policy Reform in USA

    4. Steven Wolf

  4. Market Civilization’ and Global Agri-Food: Understanding their Dynamics and (In)Coherence through Multiple Resistances

    5. Mark Tilzey

  5. Resistance to the Neoliberal Food Regime in the Sphere of Consumption: Considering the Importance of Mental Labor in Food Provisioning　　　　

    6. Rebecca Som-Castellano

    Part II: Resistance and/through the State

  6. Reflecting on Counter-Hegemonic Strategies of Food and Nutritional Security: Notes on the Brazilian Case

    7. Márcio Carneiro dos Reis

  7. Geographical Indication and Resistance in Global Agri-Food: The Case of Miso in Japan

    8. Kae Sekine and Alessandro Bonanno 

    Community Action, Government Support and Historical Distance: Enabling Transformation or Neoliberal Inclusions?

    Kristie O’Neil

    Part III: The diversity of Resistance

  8. Peasant Resistance to the Transnationalization of Agriculture in Mexico’s South Frontier

    9. Hector B. Fletes Ocón and Guadalupe Ocampo Guzmán

  9. Communities Against Capital? The Politics of Palm Oil Expansion in Colombia’s Middle Magdalena

    10. Kyla Sankey

  10. Resisting Monsanto: Monarch Butterflies and Cyber-Actors

    11. Columba Gonzalez-Duarte

  11. Haiti – Open for Business’: New Perspectives on Inclusive and Sustainable Development

    12. Jennifer Vansteenkiste

  12. Imperfect, Partial, and Interstitial: Gradations of Resistance in a Failed Food Hub

Lilian Brislen

Conclusions: The Contradictions of Resistance to Neoliberal Agri-Food

Alessandro Bonanno and Steven Wolf

Biography

Alessandro Bonanno is Texas State University System Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA. 

Steven A. Wolf is Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University, New York, USA. 

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