The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector

Crisis, Resilience, and Restructuring
Herausgeber: Wolf, Steven; Bonanno, Alessandro

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Produktbeschreibung

For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, market integration, expansion of the private sector, and contraction of the welfare state has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food. These institutional arrangements emerged from and advanced academic and popular beliefs about the virtues of private, market-based coordination relative to public, state-based problem solving. This book presents an informed, constructive dialogue around the thesis that the Neoliberal mode of governance has reached some institutional and material limits. Is Neoliberalism exhausted? How should we understand crisis applied to Neoliberalism? What are the opportunities and risks linked to the construction of alternatives? The book advances a critical evaluation of the evidence supporting claims of rupture of, or incursions into, the Neoliberal model. It also analyzes pragmatic responses to these critiques including policy initiatives, social mobilization and experimentation at various scales and points of entry. The book surveys and synthesizes a range of sociological frames designed to grapple with the concepts of regimes, systemic crisis and transitions. Contributions include historical analysis, comparative analysis and case studies of food and agriculture from around the globe. These highlight particular aspects of crisis and responses, including the potential for continued resilience, a neo-productivist return, as well as the emergence and scaling up of alternative models.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780415817905
• ISBN-10: 0415817900
• Artikelnr.: 44461497

Autorenporträt

Steven A. Wolf is Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University, New York, USA. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College, University of London, UK. Alessandro Bonanno is Texas State University System Regents' Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Theoretical Analyses and Key Concepts 1. The
Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberal Globalization: Instances from Agriculture
and Food 2. How Neoliberal Myths Endanger Democracy and Open New Avenues
for Democratic Action 3. Policing the New Enclosures: On Violence,
Primitive Accumulation, and Crisis in the Neoliberal Food System Part 2:
Case Studies 4. The Rise and Fall of a Prairie Giant: the Canadian Wheat
Board in Food Regime History 5. Navigating the Neoliberal-Nativist
Interface: Farmer Survival and the Construction of Racially Segregated
Workplaces 6. Creating Rupture through Policy: Considering the Importance
of Ideas in Agrifood Change 7. Beyond Farming: Cases of Revitalization of
Rural Communities through Multi-Role Community Farming Enterprise as Social
Service Provider Part 3: Research Opportunities 8. To Bt or not to Bt?
State, Civil Society, and Firms Debate GM Seeds in Democratic India 9.
Turning of the Tide: Rising Discontent over Transgenic Crops in Brazil 10.
U.S. Agrienvironmental Policy: Neoliberalization of Nature Meets Old Public
Management 11. For Competitiveness Sake?: Material Competition vs.
Competitiveness as a National Project 12. The Neoliberal Food Regime in
Latin America: State, Agribusiness Transnational Corporations and
Biotechnology 13. 'Just Another Asset Class'?: Neoliberalism, Finance, and
the Construction of Farmland Investment 14. Neoliberalism in the Antipodes:
Understanding the Influence and Limits of the Neoliberal Political Project
15. Conclusion: The Plasticity and Contested Terrain of Neoliberalism