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Biological Economies
Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers
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This book is ideal for academics, researchers, and students in fields such as agri-food studies, economic geography, rural development, and sociology, as well as policymakers and practitioners interested in sustainable food systems and innovative economic approaches.
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In this innovative volume the authors break out from traditional categories of analysis in agri-food studies, reconceptualising materialities and reframing economic assemblages as biological economies, based on the notion of all research being enactive or performative.
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Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be summarised as: ‘more than human’ approaches to economic life; a ‘post-structural political economy’ of food and agriculture; and calls for more ‘enactive’, performative research approaches.
This volume describes the genealogy of such approaches, drawing on the reflective insights of more than five years of international engagement and research. It demonstrates the kinds of new work being generated under these approaches and provides a means for exploring how they should be all understood as part of the same broader need to review theory and methods in the study of food, agriculture, rural development, and economic geography. This radical collective approach is elaborated as the Biological Economies approach. The authors break out from traditional categories of analysis, reconceptualising materialities, and reframing economic assemblages as biological economies, based on the notion of all research being enactive or performative.
Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
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Biological Economies
Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be summarised as: ‘more than human’ approaches to economic life; a ‘post-structural political economy’ of food and agriculture; and calls for more ‘enactive’, performative research approaches....Hardback$35300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Food Literacy
Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system continue to change and grow in complexity. Eating is an everyday event that is part of everyone’s lives. There are many commentaries on the nature of these changes to what, where and how we eat and their socio-cultural, environmental, educational, economic, and health consequences. Among this discussion,...Hardback$37600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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"In Biological Economies, Le Heron and colleagues offer a path-breaking analysis at the nexus of key agri-food studies issues and help readers imagine transformative possibilities in agri-food systems." – Alison Blay-Palmer, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada.
"This brilliant book goes beyond common critiques of food systems and presents inspiring arguments for embedding food more deeply in our material and moral lives." – Noel Castree, University of Manchester, UK, and University of Wollongong, Australia.
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ISBN: 9781138843011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 February 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Illustration: 6 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 17 Halftones, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white
Contributors:
- Edited by Michael Carolan
- Edited by Hugh Campbell
- Edited by Richard Le Heron
- Edited by Nick Lewis
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 544g
Pages: 286
About the Author
Richard Le Heron is Professor of Geography, School of Environment, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Hugh Campbell is Chair of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Nick Lewis is Associate Professor in Geography, School of Environment, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Michael Carolan is Chair of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA.
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