Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology

Awards:   Winner of Fighting for the Future of Food 2011
Author:   Rachel Schurman ,  William A. Munro
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9780816647620


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   05 August 2010
Format:   Paperback
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Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology


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  • Winner of Fighting for the Future of Food 2011

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Fighting for the Future of Food tells the story of how a small group of social activists, working together across tables, continents, and the Internet, took on the biotech industry and achieved stunning success. Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro detail how the anti-biotech movement managed to alter public perceptions about GMOs and close markets to such products. The book ultimately addresses society's understanding and trust (or mistrust) of technological innovation and the complexities of the global agricultural system that provides our food.

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Author:   Rachel Schurman ,  William A. Munro
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780816647620


ISBN 10:   0816647623
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   05 August 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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


<p> 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 of Food Politics and Safe Food


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


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


Author Information

Rachel Schurman is associate professor of sociology and global studies at the University of Minnesota. She is coeditor of Engineering Trouble: Biotechnology and Its Discontents. William A. Munro is professor of political science and director of the international studies program at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is author of The Moral Economy of the State: Conservation, Community Development, and State-Making in Zimbabwe. William A. Munro is professor of political science and director of international studies at Illinois Wesleyan University.

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