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Book SynopsisHow activists changed the trajectory of the new agricultural biotechnologies.
Trade Review"Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro take a fresh and carefully balanced look at the social movement spawned by this technology. Anyone who wants to understand why groups across the globe oppose genetically modified foods will find this book revelatory." —Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics and Safe Food
"Fighting for the Future of Food provides a new and compelling account of the contemporary struggles over agricultural biotechnology. This superb depiction of the cultural and social lifeworlds of both the agro-industries and of the activists, simultaneously reveals the hubris and market ambition of agro-genetic engineering and of the formation of an oppositional ideology. A brave and unflinching account of the world of contemporary agribusiness and its opponents." —Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley
"Compelling and eminently readable account." —Global Environmental Politics
"This volume provides an excellent account of many of the complex twists and turns of the GMO debates in the United States, Europe, and Africa over the last thirty years." —Contemporary Sociology
"With Fighting for the Future of Food, Schurman and Munro deliver an empirically and theoretically revealing, politically dedicated and very readable account of one of the biggest protest movements of today." —Social Movement Studies
"All scholars will admire the breathtaking methodology of the book, a fine example of conjunctural analysiswoven together by a coherent argument and clear architecture. . . . It must be read." —Economic Geography
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: The Contending Worlds of Biotechnology
1. Precursors to Protest
2. Creating an Industry Actor
3. Forging a Global Movement
4. The Struggle over Biotechnology in Western Europe
5. Creating Controversy in the United States
6. Biotech Battles and Agricultural Development in Africa
Conclusion: A Different Future for Biotechnology?
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Data Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
