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The neoliberal regime in the agri-food sector : crisis, resilience and restructuring /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Wolf, Steven A. (Editor), Bonanno, Alessandro
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2014.
Series:Earthscan food and agriculture.
Subjects:
Produce trade > Government policy.
Neoliberalism.
Globalization.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • About the contributors
  • Introduction / Steven A. Wolf and Alessandro Bonanno
  • Theoretical analyses and key concepts
  • The legitimation crisis of neoliberal globalization : instances from agriculture and food / Alessandro Bonanno
  • How neoliberal myths endanger democracy and open new avenues for democratic action / Lawrence Busch
  • Policing the new enclosures : on violence, primitive accumulation, and crisis in the neoliberal food system / Morgan Buck
  • Case studies
  • The rise and fall of a prairie giant : the Canadian wheat board in food regime history / AndrĂ© Magnan
  • Navigating the neoliberal-nativist interface : farmer survival and the construction of racially segregated workplaces / Jill Harrison
  • Creating rupture through policy : considering the importance of ideas in agrifood change / Rebecca L. Som Castellano
  • Beyond farming : cases of revitalization of rural communities through multi-role community farming enterprise as social service provider / Haruhiko Iba and Kiyohiko Sakamoto
  • Research opportunities
  • To BT or not to BT? : state, civil society, and firms debate gm seeds in democratic India / Devparna Roy
  • Turning of the tide : rising discontent over transgenic crops in Brazil / Karine Peschard
  • U.S. agrienvironmental policy : neoliberalization of nature meets old public management / Steven A. Wolf
  • For competitiveness sake? : material competition vs. competitiveness as a national project / Anouk Patel-Campillo
  • The neoliberal food regime in Latin America : state, agribusiness transnational corporations and biotechnology / Gerardo Otero
  • "Just another asset class"? : neoliberalism, finance, and the construction of farmland investment / Madeleine Fairbairn
  • Neoliberalism in the antipodes : understanding the influence and limits of the neoliberal political project / Geoffrey Lawrence and Hugh Campbell
  • Conclusion: the plasticity and contested terrain of neoliberalism / Steven A. Wolf and Alessandro Bonanno
  • Index.