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OverviewThis study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere--capital, the state, and the environment. Employing the increasingly popular framework of political ecology, which highlights the dynamic linkages between political-economic forces and human-environment relationships, Lawrence Grossman provides a new perspective on the history and contemporary trajectory of the Windward Islands banana industry. He reveals in rich detail the myriad impacts of banana production on the peasant laborers of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Grossman challenges the conventional wisdom on three interrelated issues central to contract farming and political ecology. First, he analyzes the process of deskilling and the associated significance of control by capital and the state over peasant labor. Second, he investigates the impacts of contract farming for export on domestic food production and food import dependency. And third, he examines the often misunderstood problem of pesticide misuse. Grossman's findings lead to a reconsideration of broader debates concerning the relevance of research on industrial restructuring and globalization for the analysis of agrarian change. Most important, his work emphasizes that we must pay greater attention to the fundamental significance of the ""environmental rootedness"" of agriculture in studies of political ecology and contract farming. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lawrence S. GrossmanPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.495kg ISBN: 9780807847183ISBN 10: 0807847186 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 31 July 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews[A] major contribution to the research on the application of regulation theory and Fordist and post-Fordist practices in agriculture. Janet Momsen, University of California, Davis [A] tour de force in demonstrating the virtue of detailed local knowledge and of bringing ecology back into political ecology. Economic Geography This careful, insightful, frequently brilliant analysis of contract farming reveals the constraints and opportunities of the contemporary global system. Journal of Political Ecology A major contribution to the research on the application of regulation theory and Fordist and post-Fordist practices in agriculture. Janet Momsen, University of California, Davis A tour de force in demonstrating the virtue of detailed local knowledge and of bringing ecology back into political ecology. Economic Geography A detailed, scholarly contribution combining judicious use of data and penetrating analysis. Highly recommended. Choice A relatively rare outcome in which a highly theoretical work has clear human applications. Geographical Review This careful, insightful, frequently brilliant analysis of contract farming reveals the constraints and opportunities of the contemporary global system. Journal of Political Ecology [A] major contribution to the research on the application of regulation theory and Fordist and post-Fordist practices in agriculture. Janet Momsen, University of California, Davis [A] tour de force in demonstrating the virtue of detailed local knowledge and of bringing ecology back into political ecology. Economic Geography A detailed, scholarly contribution combining judicious use of data and penetrating analysis. Highly recommended. Choice [A] relatively rare outcome in which a highly theoretical work has clear human applications. Geographical Review [A] major contribution to the research on the application of regulation theory and Fordist and post-Fordist practices in agriculture. Janet Momsen, University of California, Davis [A] tour de force in demonstrating the virtue of detailed local knowledge and of bringing ecology back into political ecology. Economic Geography This careful, insightful, frequently brilliant analysis of contract farming reveals the constraints and opportunities of the contemporary global system. Journal of Political Ecology A major contribution to the research on the application of regulation theory and Fordist and post-Fordist practices in agriculture. Janet Momsen, University of California, Davis A detailed, scholarly contribution combining judicious use of data and penetrating analysis. Highly recommended. Choice A tour de force in demonstrating the virtue of detailed local knowledge and of bringing ecology back into political ecology. Economic Geography A relatively rare outcome in which a highly theoretical work has clear human applications. Geographical Review [A] tour de force in demonstrating the virtue of detailed local knowledge and of bringing ecology back into political ecology. Economic Geography [A] relatively rare outcome in which a highly theoretical work has clear human applications. Geographical Review This careful, insightful, frequently brilliant analysis of contract farming reveals the constraints and opportunities of the contemporary global system. Journal of Political Ecology [A] major contribution to the research on the application of regulation theory and Fordist and post-Fordist practices in agriculture. Janet Momsen, University of California, Davis A detailed, scholarly contribution combining judicious use of data and penetrating analysis. Highly recommended. Choice [A] major contribution to the research on the application of regulation theory and Fordist and post-Fordist practices in agriculture. <p>Janet Momsen, University of California, Davis [A] major contribution to the research on the application of regulation theory and Fordist and post-Fordist practices in agriculture. Janet Momsen, University of California, Davis [A] tour de force in demonstrating the virtue of detailed local knowledge and of bringing ecology back into political ecology. Economic Geography This careful, insightful, frequently brilliant analysis of contract farming reveals the constraints and opportunities of the contemporary global system. Journal of Political Ecology YA major contribution to the research on the application of regulation theory and Fordist and post-Fordist practices in agriculture. Janet Momsen, University of California, Davis YA tour de force in demonstrating the virtue of detailed local knowledge and of bringing ecology back into political ecology. Economic Geography A detailed, scholarly contribution combining judicious use of data and penetrating analysis. Highly recommended. Choice YA relatively rare outcome in which a highly theoretical work has clear human applications. Geographical Review This careful, insightful, frequently brilliant analysis of contract farming reveals the constraints and opportunities of the contemporary global system. Journal of Political Ecology [A] major contribution to the research on the application of regulation theory and Fordist and post-Fordist practices in agriculture. Janet Momsen, University of California, Davis [A] tour de force in demonstrating the virtue of detailed local knowledge and of bringing ecology back into political ecology. Economic Geography A detailed, scholarly contribution combining judicious use of data and penetrating analysis. Highly recommended. Choice [A] relatively rare outcome in which a highly theoretical work has clear human applications. Geographical Review Author InformationLawrence S. Grossman is professor of geography at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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