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Food, Farms, and Solidarity – French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

Autor Chaia Heller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 ian 2013
The Confédération Paysanne, one of France’s largest farmer’s unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs); but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller analyzes the group’s complex strategies and campaigns, including a call for a Europe-wide ban on GM crops and hormone-treated beef, and a protest staged at a McDonald’s. Her study of the Confédération Paysanne shows the challenges small farms face in a post-industrial agricultural world. Heller also reveals how the language the union uses to argue against GMOs goes beyond the risks they pose; emphasizing solidarity has allowed farmers to focus on food as a cultural practice and align themselves with other workers. Heller’s examination of the Confédération Paysanne’s commitment to a vision of alter-globalization, the idea of substantive alternatives to neoliberal globalization, demonstrates how ecological and social justice can be restored in the world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822351276
ISBN-10: 0822351277
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century


Recenzii

"Chaia Heller makes a compelling argument about a set of very important topics in the food/environment arena. Given the continued relevance of those topics, the prominence of the main protagonists of the story in the international scene, and the engaging writing style, the book should be of interest to a broad audience of students, academics, NGO people, and activists.” Arturo Escobar, author of Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes

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Cuprins

About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World 1
Part I. Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture
2. The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan 39
3. The Confédération Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency 69
Part II. The Confédération Paysanne's Early Anti-GMO Campaign, from Risk to Globalization
4. Union Activism and Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture 89
5. We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti-GMO Campaign 112
6. The Trial of the GMOs: Deploying Discourses from Risk to Globalization 137
Part III. How France Grew Its Own Antiglobalization Movement
7. Caravans, GMOs, and McDo: The Campaign Continues 163
8. Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, DC 198
9. Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle 221
10. Postindustrial Paysans in a Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities 248
11. Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned 291
Notes 307
Works Cited 311
Index 323

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Demonstrates how ecological and social justice can be restored in the world