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Author Allaire, Gilles

Title Ecology, Capitalism and the New Agricultural Economy : the Second Great Transformation
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages)
Series Critical Food Studies
Critical food studies.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: industrialisation and socialisation of agriculture, towards new regimes; Two great transformations in the political economies of food and agriculture; Origin and content of the book; Novel approaches and theories of global agri-economies in the Second Great Transformation; Ongoing transformations of the agri-economy; Cases studies: competition in markets and policies; Conclusion; Notes; References
PART I: Novel approaches and theories of global agri-economies in the second Great Transformation2. The ambivalence of the capitalist socialisation of agriculture; Introduction; The two sides or ambivalence of intangible property; Intellectual property; Common property; Social property; Socialisation and agricultural policies, new stakes for the European agricultural policy; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. Regulation Theory and transformation of agriculture: a literature review; Introduction; Regulation Theory's historical contribution to the analysis of agricultural regimes
Comparisons and combinations of Regulation Theory with other research programmes analysing transformations of agricultural regimStrengthening Regulation Theory's contribution to international research on ecological transitions; Strengthening the contribution of Regulation Theory to the analysis of the transformation of agri-food models and food regimes; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4. Convention Theory in Anglophone agri-food studies: French legacies, circulation and new perspectives; Introduction; The French school of Convention Theory: origins and early diffusion
Convention Theory in the Anglophone agri-food literatureConvergence and originality of the Anglophone literature; Regimes of engagement; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5. The new autocracy in food and agriculture; Introduction; The tripartite standards regime; The new assembly lines; The New Taylorism; Agri-food in an information age; Markets and bureaucracies; Conclusions: can democracy survive?; Notes; References; PART II: Ongoing transformations of the agri-economy; 6. Energy, biomass and hegemony: a long history of transformations of agricultures
Introduction: three temporalities for analysing contemporary transformations in agricultureThe general economy: the 'accursed share' and the dissipation of energy; Ecological economics and socio-ecological metabolism; Hegemonies; Post-hegemony ... and post-oil?; and post-oil?; Conclusion; Notes; References; 7. Food Regime Analysis: a reassessment; Introduction; The 'first food regime'; The 'second food regime'; FRA and current global agri-food transformations; Conclusion; Notes; References
Notes 8. The Holstein cow as an institution of the agricultural modernisation project: commodity or common good?
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Subject Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects.
Economics -- France
Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects.
Economics.
France.
Form Electronic book
Author Daviron, Benoit
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