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Book SynopsisExplores the political dimensions of North American agriculture.
Trade Review"The chapters do an excellent job of showing the intersection of structure and agency, including both powerful actors who alter structures in their own interests and grassroots movements that set up alternative structures and different interpretations of reality. . . . The authors of this volume analyze actors who are struggling to construct alternative food systems in harmony with humanity and nature." *
Contemporary Sociology *
Table of Contents1. Introduction - Jane Adams
I. NORTH AMERICAN AGRICULTURE IN THE WORLD SYSTEM: OVERVIEW AND CASE STUDIES
2. The Social Economy of Development: The State of/and the Imperial Valley - Alan P. Rudy
3. From the National Policy to Continentalism and Globalization: The Shifting Context of Canadian Agricultural Policies - K. Murray Knuttila
4. The Contested Terrain of Swine Production: Deregulation and Reregulation of Corporate Farming Laws in Missouri - Douglas H. Constance, Anna M. Kleiner, and J. Sanford Rikoon
5. The Contingent Creation of Rural Interest Groups - Miriam J. Wells
II. FOUNDATIONS OF TWENTIETH CENTURY U.S. POLICY
6. The Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act: Issue Emergence and Agenda-Setting in the Progressive Era Print Press - Stuart W. Shulman
7. Low Modernism and the Agrarian New Deal: A Different Kind of State - Jess Gilbert
8. The New Deal Farm Programs: Looking for Reconstruction in American Agriculture - Mary Summers
9. The U.S. Farm Financial Crisis of the 1980s - Barry J. Barnett
III. THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF DAILY LIFE
10. The Entrepreneurial Self: Identity and Morality in a Midwestern Farming Community - Kathryn Marie Dudley
11. Considerably More Than Vegetables, a Lot Less Than Community: The Dilemma of Community Supported Agriculture - Laura B. DeLind
THE POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
12. Canadian Agricultural Policy: Liberal, Global, and Sustainable - Alan Hall
13. Constructing Genetic Engineering in the Food and Fiber System as a Problem: Urban Social Movement Organizations as Players in Agricultural Discourse - Ann Reisner
14. Eating in the Gardens of Gaia: Envisioning Polycultural Communities - Harriet Friedmann
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
