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OverviewFighting 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rachel Schurman , William A. MunroPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9780816647613ISBN 10: 0816647615 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 05 August 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsContents Introduction: The Contending Worlds of Biotechnology 1. Precursors to Protest 2. Creating an Industry Actor 3. Forging a Global Movement 4. The Struggle over Biotechnology in Western Europe 5. Creating Controversy in the United States 6. Biotech Battles and Agricultural Development in Africa Conclusion: A Different Future for Biotechnology? Acknowledgments Appendix: Data Sources Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsCompelling 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> Fighting for the Future of Food provides 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 Fighting for the Future of Food provides 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 Author InformationRachel 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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