Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0367589362 ISBN 13: 9780367589363

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2020

Riassunto

The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions. This book documents and engages competing visions and contested discourses of agrifood sustainability.

Using an incremental/reformist to transformation/radical continuum framework for alternative agrifood movements, this book identifies tensions between competing discourses that stress food sovereignty, social justice, and fair trade and those that emphasize food security, efficiency and free trade. In particular, it highlights the role that governance processes play in sustainability transitions and the ways that power and politics affect sustainability visions and discourses.

The book includes chapters that review sustainability discourses at the macro and meso levels, as well as case studies from Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe, South America and the USA.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Douglas H. Constance is Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA.

Jason T. Konefal is Associate Professor of Sociology, at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA.

Maki Hatanaka is Associate Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0367589362
• ISBN 13: 9780367589363
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 316
• Redattore: Constance Douglas H., Konefal Jason T., Hatanaka Maki
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania