Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty : Crisis, Resistance, and Resilience

This book asks how we are to understand the relationship between capitalism and the environment, capitalism and food, and capitalism and social resistance. These questions come together to form a study of food regimes and the means by which capitalism organises both the environment and people to provision its distinctive system of ever-expanding consumption with food.__Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty__ explores whether there are environmental limits to capitalism and its economic growth by addressing the ongoing and inter-linked crises of food, fossil fuels, and finance. It also considers its political limits, as the globally burgeoning ‘precariat’, peasants and indigenous people resist the further commodification of their livelihoods.This book draws from the field of Political Ecology to approach new ways of analysing capitalism, the environment and resistance, and also to propose new solutions to the current agro-ecological-economic crisis. It will be of particular interest to students and academics of Environmental Sociology, Human Geography, and Environmental Geography. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 1-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 Political Ecology and Social Systems: An Integrated, but Differentiated, Theory of Socio-natural Dynamics (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 17-43 Political Ecology, Capitalism, and Food Regimes (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 45-85 The ‘First’ or British ‘Liberal’ Food Regime 1840–1870: The ‘Second’ or ‘Imperial’ Food Regime 1870–1930 (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 87-126 The Rise and Demise of the ‘Third’ or ‘Political Productivist’ Food Regime (1930s–1980s) (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 127-143 The Neoliberal Food Regime, the New Imperialism, and the Emergence of Food Sovereignty (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 145-194 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 The Neoliberal Food Regime in Crisis? (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 197-223 Crisis and Resistance: Reform or Revolution? (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 225-247 Front Matter ....Pages 249-249 Prelude to the Case Studies: The Agrarian Question and Food Sovereignty Movements (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 251-262 Bolivia (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 263-273 Ecuador (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 275-288 Nepal (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 289-299 China (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 301-312 Front Matter ....Pages 313-313 ‘Understanding the World in Order to Change It’: What Might Food Sovereignty Look Like? Or, a Normative Political Ecology as Livelihood Sovereignty (Mark Tilzey)....Pages 315-350 Back Matter ....Pages 351-394 "This book asks how we are to understand the relationship between capitalism and the environment, capitalism and food, and capitalism and social resistance. These questions come together to form a study of food regimes and the means by which capitalism organises both the environment and people to provision its distinctive system of ever-expanding consumption with food. 'Political ecology, food regimes, and food sovereignty' explores whether there are environmental limits to capitalism and its economic growth by addressing the ongoing and inter-linked crises of food, fossil fuels, and finance. It also considers its political limits, as the globally burgeoning 'precariat', peasants and indigenous people resist the further commodification of their livelihoods. This book draws from the field of Political Ecology to approach new ways of analysing capitalism, the environment and resistance, and also to propose new solutions to the current agro-ecological-economic crisis. It will be of particular interest to students and academics of Environmental Sociology, Human Geography, and Environmental Geography."--Page [4] of cover 4ème de couv. : "This book asks how we are to understand the relationship between capitalism and the environment, capitalism and food, and capitalism and social resistance. These questions come together to form a study of food regimes and the means by which capitalism organises both the environment and people to provision its distinctive system of ever-expanding consumption with food. Political ecology, food regimes, and food sovereignty explores whether there are environmental limits to capitalism and its economic growth by addressing the ongoing and inter-linked crises of food, fossil fuels, and finance. It also considers its political limits, as the globally burgeoning "precariat", peasants and indigenous people resist the further commodification of their livelihoods. This book draws from the field of Political Ecology to approach new ways of analysing capitalism, the environment and resistance, and also to propose new solutions to the current agro-ecological-economic crisis. It will be of particular interest to students and academics of Environmental Sociology, Human Geography, and Environmental Geography." "This book asks how we are to understand the relationship between capitalism and the environment, capitalism and food, and capitalism and social resistance. These questions come together to form a study of food regimes and the means by which capitalism organises both the environment and people to provision its distinctive system of ever-expanding consumption with food.0'Political ecology, food regimes, and food sovereignty' explores whether there are environmental limits to capitalism and its economic growth by addressing the ongoing and inter-linked crises of food, fossil fuels, and finance. It also considers its political limits, as the globally burgeoning ?precariat?, peasants and indigenous people resist the further commodification of their livelihoods.0This book draws from the field of Political Ecology to approach new ways of analysing capitalism, the environment and resistance, and also to propose new solutions to the current agro-ecological-economic crisis. It will be of particular interest to students and academics of Environmental Sociology, Human Geography, and Environmental Geography."--Back cover. Annotation This text asks how we are to understand the relationship between capitalism and the environment, capitalism and food, and capitalism and social resistance. These questions come together to form a study of food regimes and the means by which capitalism organises both the environment and people to provision its distinctive system of ever-expanding consumption with food. 'Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty' explores whether there are environmental limits to capitalism and its economic growth by addressing the ongoing and inter-linked crises of food, fossil fuels, and finance. It also considers its political limits, as the globally burgeoning 'precariat', peasants and indigenous people resist the further commodification of their livelihoods