Elizabeth Fitting

The Struggle for Maize

Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth Fitting is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349389
• ISBN-10: 0822349388
• Artikelnr.: 32471054

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Fitting

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xv
Introduction: The Struggle for Mexican Maize 1
Part I: Debates 33
1. Transgenic Maize and Its Experts 35
2. Corn and the Hybrid Nation 75
Part II: Livelihoods 117
3. Community and Conflict 120
4. Remaking the Countryside 155
5. From Campesinos to Migrant and Maquila Workers? 197
Conclusion 230
Appendix: Producer Interviews, 2001¿2002 239
Notes 249
Glossary 265
Bibliography 271
Index 293