Food solidarity
Subtitle: French farmers and the fight against industrial agriculture and genetically modified crops
By: Chaia Heller
Series: New ecologies for the twenty-first century; New ecologies for the twenty-first century
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822351184; 9780822351276
Subjects: Anti-globalization movement; Sustainable agriculture; Genetically modified foods; Farmers; Agriculture and state; Political activity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Creating a new rationality of agriculture in an age of GMOs, MacDo, and the WTO; title: The new paysan movements : French industrialized agriculture and the rise of the post-industrial paysan; title: The Confédération paysanne : philosophy, structure, and constituency; title: Union activism and programs : early campaigns and "agriculteur paysanne"; title: "We have always been modern" : toward a "progressive" anti-GMO campaign; title: The trial of the GMOs : deploying discourses from risk to anti-globalization; title: Caravans, GMOs, and MacDo : the campaign continues; title: Operation Roquefort, part one : traveling to Washington, D.C.; title: Operation Roquefort, part two : the battle of Seattle; title: Post-industrial paysans in a post-Seattle world; title: French lessons: what's to be learned?