Biological Economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment)

Synopsis

Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be summarized as: ‘more than human’ approaches to economic life; a ‘post-structural political economy’ of food and agriculture; and calls for more ‘enactive’, performative research approaches. This volume describes the genealogy of such approaches, drawing on the reflective insights of more than five years of international engagement and research. It demonstrates the kinds of new work being generated under these approaches and provides a means for exploring how they should be all understood as part of the same broader need to review theory and methods in the study of food, agriculture, rural development and economic geography. This radical collective approach is elaborated as the Biological Economies approach. The authors break out from traditional categories of analysis, reconceptualising materialities, and reframing economic assemblages as biological economies, based on the notion of all research being enactive or performative.

Copyright:

2016

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

274 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317551034

Related ISBNs:

9781138588936, 9781138843011, 9781315731124

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

08/27/23

Copyrighted By:

Richard Le Heron, Hugh Campbell, Nick Lewis and Michael Carolan

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature

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Edited by:

Richard Le Heron

Edited by:

Hugh Campbell

Edited by:

Nick Lewis

Edited by:

Michael Carolan