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Food, Farms, and Solidarity (eBook, PDF)

French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops

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Produktbeschreibung

The Confederation Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller analyzes the group's complex strategies and campaigns, including a call for a Europe-wide ban on GM crops and hormone-treated beef, and a protest staged at a McDonald's. Her study of the Confederation Paysanne shows the challenges small farms face in a postindustrial agricultural world. Heller also reveals how the language the union uses to argue against GMOs encompasses more than the risks they pose; emphasizing solidarity has allowed farmers to focus on food as a cultural practice and align themselves with other workers. Heller's examination of the Confederation Paysanne's commitment to a vision of alter-globalization, the idea of substantive alternatives to neoliberal globalization, demonstrates how ecological and social justice can be restored in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394808
• Artikelnr.: 54784333

Autorenporträt

Chaia Heller

Inhaltsangabe

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