Food, Farms, and Solidarity : French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops /
Chaia Heller follows one of France's largest farmers' unions as it joins with peasants internationally to contest the hegemony of genetically modified foods, free trade, and industrial agriculture.
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London :
Duke University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World
- Part I: Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture
- The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan
- The Confederation Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency
- Part II: The Confederation Paysanne's Early Anti-GMO Campaign, from Risk to Globalization
- Union Activism and Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture
- We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti-GMO Campaign
- The Trial of the GMOS: Deploying Discourses from Risk to Globalization
- Part III: How France Grew Its Own Alter-globalization Movement
- Caravans, GMOS, and McDo: The Campaign Continues
- Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, D.C.
- Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle
- Postindustrial Paysans in a Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities
- Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned?