Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Constance, Douglas H.; Hatanaka, Maki; Konefal, Jason T.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book documents and engages competing visions and contested discourses of agrifood sustainability, from the incremental/reformist to transformation/radical continuum for alternative agrifood movements, particularly agroecology and sustainable intensification, with case studies from around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351664929
• Artikelnr.: 56840489

Autorenporträt

Douglas H. Constance is Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA. Jason T. Konefal is Associate Professor of Sociology, at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA. Maki Hatanaka is Associate Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Introduction 1. Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood
System: An Overview PART II: Framing the Contested Discourse 2. Sustainable
Intensification: Agroecological Appropriation or Contestation? 3.
Sustainable Intensification as a Sociotechnical Imaginary 4. Agrifood
Discourses and Feeding the World: Unpacking Sustainable Intensification 5.
Sustainability as the Civil Commons: Laying the Groundwork for Sustainable
Agriculture Part III: Contested Discourses in Theory and Practice 6. Zero
Hunger Discourse: Neoliberal, Progressive, Reformist or Radical? 7.
Greenwashing the Animal-industrial Complex: Sustainable Intensification and
the Livestock Revolution 8. Are Food Quality Schemes an Alternative to the
Conventional Food System? Reflections on the EU Metaphors on Agrifood
Quality Regulation 9. Discourses on Sustainability in the French Farming
Sector: The Redefinition of a Consensual and Knowledge-intensive
"Agroecology" 10. Dueling Discourses of Sustainability: Neo-Conventional
and Organic Farming on the Canadian Prairies 11. Contested Sustainability
Discourses as Lived Experience: Conflicted Feelings Towards Meat in
Consumers' Narratives and Life Stories Part IV: Contested Agrifood
Governance 12. Shifting Visions of Sustainability in the United States
Agriculture: A Case Study of the Role of Multi-Stakeholder Governance 13.
Understanding the Challenge of Problem Definition in Multistakeholder
Initiatives: Lessons from Sustainability Policy Frames in Canadian
Non-State Food Strategies 14. Standardizing "Unused" Land: The Politics of
Indicators in Land Classification 15. Justifying the Standardization of
Sustainability Impact Part V: Conclusion 16. Fault Lines in Sustainability:
Contestation, Cooptation, Reform, and Transformation