Food, farms & solidarity : French farmers challenge industrial agriculture and genetically modified crops / Chaia Heller.
2013
338.1844 H477f 2013
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Title
Food, farms & solidarity : French farmers challenge industrial agriculture and genetically modified crops / Chaia Heller.
Author
ISBN
9780822351184 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822351188 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822351276 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822351277 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822351188 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822351276 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822351277 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 333 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
338.1844 H477f 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)782252377
(OCoLC)782252377
(OCoLC)782252377
Summary
The Confederation Paysanne, one of France's largest farmer's 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 post-industrial agricultural world. Heller also reveals how the language the union uses to argue against GMOs goes beyond 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-321) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Creating a new rationality of agriculture in a postindustrial world
I. Toward a new rationality of agriculture
The new paysan movements : French industrialized agriculture and the rise of the postindustrial paysan
The Confédération paysanne : philosophy, structure, and constituency
II. The Confédération paysonne's early anti-GMO campaign, from risk to globalization
Union activism and programs : early campaigns and paysan agriculture
"We have always been modern" : toward a "progressive" anti-GMO campaign
The trial of the GMOs : deploying discourses from risk to globalization
III. How France grew its own alter-globalization movement
Caravans, GMOs, and MacDo : the campaign continues
Operation Roquefort, part one : traveling to Washington, D.C.
Operation Roquefort, part two : the battle of Seattle
Postindustrial Paysans in a post-Seattle world : new movements, new possibilities
Conclusions-French lessons: what's to be learned?
I. Toward a new rationality of agriculture
The new paysan movements : French industrialized agriculture and the rise of the postindustrial paysan
The Confédération paysanne : philosophy, structure, and constituency
II. The Confédération paysonne's early anti-GMO campaign, from risk to globalization
Union activism and programs : early campaigns and paysan agriculture
"We have always been modern" : toward a "progressive" anti-GMO campaign
The trial of the GMOs : deploying discourses from risk to globalization
III. How France grew its own alter-globalization movement
Caravans, GMOs, and MacDo : the campaign continues
Operation Roquefort, part one : traveling to Washington, D.C.
Operation Roquefort, part two : the battle of Seattle
Postindustrial Paysans in a post-Seattle world : new movements, new possibilities
Conclusions-French lessons: what's to be learned?
Series
New ecologies for the twenty-first century.
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