Heller Food, Farms, and Solidarity

French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9480-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

Chaia Heller follows one of France's largest farmers' unions as it joins with peasants internationally to contest the hegemony of genetically modified foods, free trade, and industrial agriculture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heller, Chaia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Chaia Heller is Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of The Ecology of Everyday Life: Rethinking the Desire for Nature.