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What is agriculture for? : archetypes for future food systems /

'What Is Agriculture For?' describes four contrasting rationales for technical and policy change in agriculture and food systems. Technological Modernization applies an ethic common to every sector in the industrial economy: production should seek greater efficiencies in order to lower con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Paul B., 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Agricultural innovations.
Comparative agriculture.
Agriculture and state.
Agriculture > Innovations.
Agriculture comparée.
Politique agricole.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY.
Ecology.
Life Sciences.
SCIENCE.
Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Agricultural innovations
Agriculture and state
Comparative agriculture
Industry & industrial studies.
Farming and Country Life.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Purpose of This Book
  • What Is Agriculture For?
  • Some Brief Terminological Remarks
  • How Philosophers Do Ethics
  • Ethical Theory
  • The Plan of the Book
  • 1 Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems
  • Food Infrastructure
  • Food Infrastructure and the Philosophy of Technology
  • The Archetypes: A Preliminary Overview
  • Technological Modernization
  • Sustainable Intensification
  • Rural Resilience
  • Urban Agriculture
  • Infrastructure, Ethics, and Archetypes
  • The Future of Food
  • Technology, Archetypes, and Future Food Infrastructure
  • 2 Archetypes, Imaginaries, and the Philosophy of Technology
  • Methods? We Don't Need No Stinking Methods!
  • Archetypes
  • Social Theory and Its Discontents
  • The Imaginary
  • The Social Imaginary
  • Sociotechnical Imaginaries
  • The Philosophy of Technology
  • Postphenomenology and Philosophy of Technology
  • Media, Infrastructure, and the Philosophy of Technology
  • But What Does It All Mean?
  • 3 Technological Modernization and Industrial Agriculture
  • Technological Modernization: A Recap
  • Modernity and the Rationalization of Society: A Perfunctory Telling
  • Modernization as Narrative
  • Modernity, Industrialization, and the Rationalization of Food and Agriculture
  • Industrializing Food Systems in the Twentieth Century
  • Technological Modernization and Its Ideological Forms
  • A Dominant Imaginary
  • Seeing Like a Philosopher
  • 4 Science and Sustainable Intensification
  • Agricultural Science and the Farm Crisis
  • Sustainable Intensification: Some Basics
  • Sustainable Intensification: The Birth of an Archetype
  • Sustainable Intensification: A Memoir
  • The Ethics of Sustainable Intensification
  • Sustainable Intensification as the Top Priority for Innovation
  • Expanding the Idea, Creating an Imaginary
  • The Sustainability in Sustainable Intensification
  • Productionism and Intensification
  • Sustainable Intensification and Climate Ethics
  • Sustainable Intensification and the Philosophy of Technology
  • Coda: A Contested Vision of the Future
  • 5 Rural Resilience and the Food Movement
  • The Food Movement
  • Constructing a Movement: Organic Food and Health
  • Constructing a Movement: Agricultural Fundamentalism
  • Constructing a Movement: Agriculture and Environment
  • Constructing a Movement: Farming and Social Justice
  • Rural Resilience Takes Shape, the Food Movement Gathers Steam
  • Smallholders in Less Industrialized Regions
  • But Is There Really a Food Movement?
  • Battling Archetypes
  • A Vague and Ambivalent Archetype?
  • 6 Urban Agriculture: The Food Movement Moves On
  • A Unified Archetype?
  • Feeding Cities in the Twenty-first Century
  • Urban Food Policy and the Narrative of Food Security
  • Urban Agriculture as Food Security
  • Food Security Goes Vertical