Organizing Organic
Subtitle: Conflict and Compromise in an Emerging Market
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: May 18, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780804795906
Description: Stakeholders in the organic food movement agree that it has the potential to transform our food system, and yet there is little consensus about what this transformation should look like. Tracing the history of the organic food sector, Michael Haedicke charts the development of two narratives that do more than simply polarise the organic debate, they give way to competing institutional logics. On the one hand, social activists contend that organics can break up the concentration of power that rests in the hands of a big, traditional agribusiness. Alternatively, professionals who are steeped in the culture of business emphasise the potential for market growth, for fostering better behemoths.
Notes: Source title: Organizing Organic: Conflict and Compromise in an Emerging Market