05015oam 2200697I 450 991081400570332120240405045148.01-134-71606-01-134-71607-90-203-27455-51-280-05721-10-203-44489-210.4324/9780203444894 (CKB)1000000000250368(EBL)178636(OCoLC)277579719(SSID)ssj0000163701(PQKBManifestationID)11167116(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000163701(PQKBWorkID)10118240(PQKB)10382904(MiAaPQ)EBC178636(Au-PeEL)EBL178636(CaPaEBR)ebr10164983(CaONFJC)MIL5721(OCoLC)648152867(EXLCZ)99100000000025036820180706d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGlobalising food agrarian questions and global restructuring /edited by David Goodman and Michael Watts1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,1997.1 online resource (297 p.)"This book emerged from a workshop on 'Agrarian questions and the restructuring of the agro-food system' held on the Berkeley campus of the University of California, on 28-30 September 1995"--Ackn.0-415-16253-X 0-415-16252-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.GLOBALISING FOOD Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Agrarian Questions: Global Appetite, Local Metabolism: Nature, Culture, and Industry in Fin-de-Siecle Agro-Food Systems; Part I: Institutions, Embeddedness and Agrarian Trajectories; 2 Regional Integration and The Family Farm in The Mercosul Countries: New Theoretical Approaches as Supports for Alternative Strategies; 3 Multiple Trajectories of Rural Industrialisation: An Agrarian Critique of Industrial Restructuring and The New Institutionalism4 Agrarian Questions in The Making of The Knitwear Industry in Tirupur, India: A Historical Geography of The Industrial PresentCommentary on Part I: Theoretical Reflections; Part II: Restructuring, Industry and Regional Dynamics; 5 Restructuring National Agriculture, Agro-Food Trade, and Agrarian Livelihoods in The Caribbean; 6 Restructuring Pork Production, Remaking Rural Iowa; Commentary on Part II: Regions in Global Context? Restructuring, Industry, and Regional Dynamics; Part III: Globalisation, Value and Regulation in the Commodity System7 Creating Space for Food: The Distinctiveness of Recent Agrarian Development8 Agro-Industrial Just-in-Time: The Chicken Industry and Postwar American Capitalism; Commentary on Part III: 'Creating Space for Food' and 'Agroindustrial Just-in-Time'; Part IV: Discourse and Class, Networks and Accumulation; 9 Legal Discourse and The Restructuring of Californian Agriculture: Class Relations at The Local Level; 10 Field-Level Bureaucrats and The Making of New Moral Discourses in Agri-Environmental Controversies; Commentary on Part IV: Fields of Dreams, or The Best Game in TownPart V: Transnational Capital and Local Responses11 Nourishing Networks: Alternative Geographies of Food; 12 Reopening Totalities: Venezuela's Restructuring and The Globalisation Debate; Commentary on Part V: Theoretical Reflections: Transnational Capital and Its Alternatives; Part VI: Nature, Sustainability and The Agrarian Question; 13 Sustainability and Theory: An Agenda for Action; 14 Some Observations on Agro-Food Change and The Future of Agricultural Sustainability Movements; Commentary on Part VI: Sustainability and Institution Building: Issues and Prospects as Seen From New ZealandIndexIn an increasingly global world, societies are being provisioned from a bewildering array of sources as new countries and new food commodities are drawn into international markets. Globalising Food provides an innovative contribution to the area of political economy of agriculture, food and consumption through a revealing investigation of the globalisation and restructuring of localised agricultural sectors and food systems.The book draws on new theoretical perspectives and wide-ranging case studies from Britain, the USA, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Latin America. The keyFood industry and tradeCongressesAgricultural industriesCongressesFood industry and tradeAgricultural industries338.1Goodman David1938-888242Watts Michael152766MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814005703321Globalising food4013518UNINA