The power of food

被引:76
作者
McMichael P. [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
[2] Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University
[3] Research Committee on Agriculture and Food, International Sociological Association
[4] Department of Rural Sociology, 119 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca
关键词
Biotechnology; Corporate regime; Development; Food security; Globalization; Market rule; Organic agriculture;
D O I
10.1023/A:1007684827140
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摘要
In the developmentalist era, industrialization has simultaneously transformed agriculture and degraded its natural and cultural base. Food production and consumption embodies the contradictory aspects of this transformation. This paper argues that the crisis of development has generated two basic responses: (1) the attempt to redefine development as a global project, including harnessing biotechnology to resolve the food security question, and (2) a series of countermovements attempting to simultaneously reassert the value of local, organic foods, and challenge the attempt on the part of food corporations and national and global institutions to subject the food question to market solutions. It is proposed that the power of food lies in its material and symbolic functions of linking nature, human survival, health, culture and livelihood as a focus of resistance to corporate takeover of life itself. © 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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