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UNINA9910555235403321 |
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Autore |
Heller Chaia |
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Food, Farms, and Solidarity : French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2012 |
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0-8223-9480-4 |
1-283-92505-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (349 p.) |
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Collana |
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New ecologies for the twenty-first century |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Agriculture and state - History - Political activity - 20th century - France |
Farmers - Political aspects - France |
Genetically modified foods - France |
Sustainable agriculture - France |
Anti-globalization movement - France |
Business & Economics |
Agricultural Economics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; About the series; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World; Part I: Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture; 2. The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan; 3. The Confédération Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency; Part II: The Confédération Paysanne's Early Anti-GMO Campaign, from Risk to Globalization; 4. Union Activism and Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture; 5. We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti-GMO Campaign |
6. The Trial of the GMOS: Deploying Discourses from Risk to GlobalizationPart III: How France Grew Its Own Alter-globalization Movement; 7. Caravans, GMOS, and McDo: The Campaign Continues; 8. Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, D.C.; 9. Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle; 10. Postindustrial Paysans in a |
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Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities; 11. Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned?; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Chaia Heller follows one of France's largest farmers' unions as it joins with peasants internationally to contest the hegemony of genetically modified foods, free trade, and industrial agriculture. |
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