Agricultural Governance (eBook, ePUB)

Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation
Redaktion: Higgins, Vaughan; Lawrence, Geoffrey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Globalization has reshaped the nature of regulation within developed nations. This book draws upon the expertise of some of the most prominent names in rural sociology, geography, and anthropology to show how globalization has opened up a new regulatory politics in which increasingly, non-political sites, spaces, and agents play an increasingly influential role in shaping agricultural production and consumption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134262816
• Artikelnr.: 38264789

Autorenporträt

Vaughan Higgins is a lecturer in Sociology at Monash University, Australia. His areas of research include agricultural regulation and the role of new technologies in rural governing. Geoffrey Lawrence is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. His work spans the areas of rural and regional development, globalization and localization, and social aspects of natural resource management.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Globalization and Agricultural Governance Part 1:
(Re)Regulating Spaces 2. Globalization and Global Governance 3. Reshaping
the State: Global/Local Networks of Association and the Governing of
Agricultural Production 4. Rural Development and Agri-Food Governing in
Europe: Tracing the Development of Alternatives Part 2: (De)Politicizing
Practices 5. Reshaping the Agrifood System: The Role of Standards, Standard
Makers, and Third-Party Certifiers 6. Disciplining the Organic Commodity 7.
Governing Conflicts over Sustainability: Agricultural Biotechnology in
Europe 8. Governing Agriculture through the Managerial Capacities of
Farmers: The Role of Calculation Part 3: (Re)Configuring Objects And
Subjects Of Governing 9. Sustainability and Agri-Environmental Governance
10. Governing Consumption: Mobilizing 'the Consumer' within
Genetically-Modified and Organic Food Networks 11. Animals and Ambivalence:
Governing Farm Animal Welfare in the European Food Sector 12. Expertise and
the Calculability of Agri-Food Risks