Alessandro Bonanno - Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime

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Names: Bonanno, Alessandro, editor. | Wolf, Steven A., editor.

Title: Resistance to the neoliberal agri-food regime : a critical analysis /

edited by Alessandro Bonanno and Steven A. Wolf.

Description: New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Earthscan food and

agriculture | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017020947 | ISBN 9781138723375 (hardback) |

ISBN 9781315192437 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Agricultural industries. | Food industry and trade. |

International business enterprises. | NeoliberalismEconomic aspects.

Classification: LCC HD9000.5 .R36695 2018 | DDC 338.1dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017020947

ISBN: 978-1-138-72337-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-19243-7 (ebk)

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Throughout the various steps necessary for the completion of this volume we had the privilege to be assisted by a number of people that facilitated our work and made the realization of this book possible. Among them, we acknowledge the leadership and membership of RC-40, Research Committee on Sociology of Agriculture and food of the International Sociological Association, who were instrumental in the organization of the mini-conference The New Frontier of Resistance in Global Agri-Food . We would like to thank the organizers of the 2016 XIV World Congress of Rural Sociology, August 2016. In particular, we are grateful for the assistance of the other members of the Congress Program Committee, and we gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Mustafa Koc and others on the local organizing committee in Toronto. Maki Hatanakas efforts in organizing an RC-40 dinner and party deserves special mention. The chapters contained in this volume were generated from papers presented at the Toronto mini-conference. We would like to thank those who participated in the sessions of the mini conference and provided comments to the paper presenters. These comments importantly contributed to the shaping of the ideas contained in this volume. We are grateful to Shannon Hovencamp for her skillful assistance in the maintenance of the mini-conference web-page. Her prompt and accurate work made a difference. Many thanks go to Tim Hardwick, Ashley Wright and Amy Johnston at Routledge for their support in the genesis and production of the book. Last but not least, we would like to acknowledge Geoffrey Lawrence the 20122016 President of the International Rural Sociological Association for his assistance in the diffusion of information about the mini-conference and book project.