Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology (Social Movements, Protest and Contention)
"Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro take a fresh and carefully balanced look at the social movement spawned by this technology. Anyone who wants to understand why groups across the globe oppose genetically modified foods will find this book revelatory." —Marion Nestle, author ofFood PoliticsandSafe Food"Fighting for the Future of Foodprovides a new and compelling account of the contemporary struggles over agricultural biotechnology. This superb depiction of the cultural and social lifeworlds of both the agro-industries and of the activists, simultaneously reveals the hubris and market ambition of agro-genetic engineering and of the formation of an oppositional ideology.  A brave and unflinching account of the world of contemporary agribusiness and its opponents." —Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley"Compelling and eminently readable account." —Global Environmental Politics "This  volume provides an excellent account of many of the complex twists and  turns of the GMO debates in the United States, Europe, and Africa over  the last thirty years." —Contemporary Sociology "With  Fighting for the Future of Food, Schurman and Munro deliver an  empirically and theoretically revealing, politically dedicated and very  readable account of one of the biggest protest movements of today." —Social Movement Studies "All  scholars will admire the breathtaking methodology of the book, a fine  example of conjunctural analysiswoven together by a coherent argument  and clear architecture. . . . It must be read." —Economic Geography