Biological Economies

Name: Biological Economies
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138843011
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Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers

Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

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Biological Economies explores innovative approaches in agri-food studies by addressing challenges such as 'more than human' economic perspectives, post-structural political economy of food and agriculture, and enactive research methodologies. This volume traces the development of these ideas through extensive international research and proposes the Biological Economies approach, which reconceptualises economic assemblages as biological and emphasises performative research methods, urging a rethink of theory and methods in food, agriculture, rural development, and economic geography.
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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.

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.

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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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INFORMATION

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

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

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.

Biological Economies