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Overview"In an era of escalating food politics, many believe organic farming to be the agrarian answer. In this first comprehensive study of organic farming in California, Julie Guthman casts doubt on the current wisdom about organic food and agriculture, at least as it has evolved in the Golden State. Refuting popular portrayals of organic agriculture as a small-scale family farm endeavor in opposition to ""industrial"" agriculture, Guthman explains how organic farming has replicated what it set out to oppose." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julie GuthmanPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 11 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9780520240940ISBN 10: 0520240944 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 04 August 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsContents List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Maps 1. Agrarian Dreams 2. Finding the Way: Roads to Organic Production 3. Organic Farming: Ideal Practices and Practical Ideals 4. California Dreaming: California's Agro-Industrial Legacy 5. Organic Sediment: A Geography of Organic Production 6. Conventionalizing Organic: From Social Movement to Industry via Regulation 7. Organic Regulation Ramified 8. The Agrarian Answer? Appendix Notes Glossary of Key Terms References IndexReviewsAgrarian Dreams throws a cold shower of reality over the dream of organic agriculture in California, demonstrating all that is lost when organic farming goes industrial. This is a challenging book, and until we can answer the hard questions Julie Guthman poses, a genuinely sustainable agriculture will elude us. - Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire; Agrarian Dreams puts organic agriculture in a broad intellectual, social, and theoretical context in a readable way. Nobody has written at this scale and scope about organics. This is an outstanding work. - Sally K. Fairfax, University of California, Berkeley """Agrarian Dreams throws a cold shower of reality over the dream of organic agriculture in California, demonstrating all that is lost when organic farming goes industrial. This is a challenging book, and until we can answer the hard questions Julie Guthman poses, a genuinely sustainable agriculture will elude us."" - Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire; ""Agrarian Dreams puts organic agriculture in a broad intellectual, social, and theoretical context in a readable way. Nobody has written at this scale and scope about organics. This is an outstanding work."" - Sally K. Fairfax, University of California, Berkeley""" Author InformationJulie Guthman is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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