Globalising food : agrarian questions and global restructuring

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"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

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 Institutionalism

4 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 System

7 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 Town

Part 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 Zealand

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