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Autore: |
Heller Chaia
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Titolo: |
Food, Farms, and Solidarity : French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops
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Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
Disciplina: | 338.1/844 |
338.1844 | |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities; 11. Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned?; Notes; Works Cited; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Food, Farms, and Solidarity ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8223-9480-4 |
1-283-92505-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910555235403321 |
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