LEADER 04879oam 2200577I 450 001 9910812459703321 005 20230207213750.0 010 $a1-136-53186-6 010 $a1-136-53187-4 010 $a1-282-78983-X 010 $a9786612789830 010 $a1-84977-647-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000051911 035 $a(EBL)585503 035 $a(OCoLC)669493454 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC585503 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL585503 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10420041 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL278983 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000051911 100 $a20180727d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRebels for the soil $ethe rise of the global organic food and farming movement /$fby Matthew Reed 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBoca Raton, FL :$cRoutledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (179 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-98469-8 311 $a1-84407-597-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Rebels for the Soil; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Tables and Boxes; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Organic farming 101; Key arguments; Organization of the book; Identifying organics; Note; Chapter 2 Social Movements; Introduction; Why social movements?; Defining a social movement; Critical communities and discourse; Phases of the movement; Discourse and diffusion; Roles in the movement; Working utopias; Commerce and the movement; Mobilization, protest and framing; A planetary movement?; Those who walked with Martin; Notes; Chapter 3 Saving the Soil 327 $aOutside the empireFood, empire and reform; The doctors; The Peckham Experiment; Agricultural scientists; The agrarian far right; Eve Balfour; Notes; Chapter 4 Poisonous Elixirs; The war years; The Kinship in Husbandry; Balfour and the book; Forming the Soil Association; Foundation; The green revolution; Advancing via Haughley; The Soil and Health Foundation; Pesticides and engagement; Harassment; Barren years?; Notes; Chapter 5 Small, Beautiful and Reorganized, 1960s and 1970s; Introduction; Rise of environmentalism; Counterculture; The Soil Association; Emergence; Swiss developments; IFOAM 327 $aA new discourseNotes; Chapter 6 The Rise of Organic Food Retailing, 1980s; Introduction; The first standards; Legislation; Legislation in the US; Market growth; Converting farmers; Is it local?; Multiple retailers - a Faustian pact?; Past its shelf life?; Knowing the market/movement; Notes; Chapter 7 Fighting the future - against GM crops; Context; Roots of the opposition; The Monsanto Files; Action against the trials; The French connection; The battle for Seattle; GM on trial; Learning from the mobilization; Notes; Chapter 8 Peak Organics?; Summiting the peaks; Cuba; Transition Towns 327 $aThe ends of natureFrom pukka to policy; New definitions; Stalled by the critics?; The fourth phase and three directions; Come so far, still so far to go; Bibliography; Index 330 3 $aThis book investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as a social movement. Using the tools of political sociology it analyzes and explains how both people and ideas have shaped a movement that from its inception aimed to change global agriculture. Starting from the British Empire in the 1930's, where the first trans-national roots of organic farming took hold, through to the internet-mediated social protests against genetically modified crops at the end of the twentieth century, the author traces the rise to prominence of the movement. As well as providing a historical account, the book explains the movement's on-going role in fostering and organising alternatives to the dominant intensive and industrial forms of agriculture, such as promoting local food produce and animal welfare. By considering it as a trans-national movement from its inception, aiming at cultural and social change, the book highlights what is unique about the organic movement and why it has risen only relatively recently to public attention. The author reports original research findings, focusing largely on the English-speaking world. The work is grounded in academic enquiry and theory, but also provides a narrative through which the movement can be understood by the more general interested reader. 606 $aOrganic farming$xSocial aspects 606 $aSocial movements 615 0$aOrganic farming$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSocial movements. 676 $a363.19/2 700 $aReed$b Matthew$0876170 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812459703321 996 $aRebels for the soil$94073724 997 $aUNINA