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Is HACCP Nothing? A Disjoint Constitution between Inspectors, Processors, and Consumers and the Cider Industry in Michigan 总被引:1,自引:2,他引:1
Toby A. Ten Eyck Donna Thede Gerd Bode Leslie Bourquin 《Agriculture and Human Values》2006,23(2):205-214
The transmission of a product or idea from one culture or point of origin to another and the maintenance of control outside
the new locality has been referred to as the distribution and maintenance of “nothing.” This perspective has been used to
describe the global marketplace and the influence of large multinational corporations on the politics and cultures of host
countries. This paper uses this concept, but within a much smaller context. Using the sensitizing concept of a “disjoint constitution,”
we interviewed health inspectors and apple cider producers in Michigan to determine if the implementation of the Hazard Analysis
and Critical Control Points (HACCP) program designed to ensure food safety was characterized by a power differential that
would favor the inspectors. In addition, a larger survey of processors and an internet survey of apple cider consumers was
conducted to supplement this data. It was found that HACCP had characteristics of both “nothing” and “something” and that
better communication is needed between these groups to move it further along toward the something end of the continuum.
Toby A. Ten Eyck is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and affiliated with the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center
at Michigan State University. His work focuses on the development, dissemination, and interpretation of mass media risk messages.
Donna J. Thede completed her Ph.D in Food Science partially through this research project and is now a Senior Scientist in Nutrition & Regulatory
Affairs with the Kellogg Company.
Gerd Bobe conducts research on nutrition and cancer as a fellow in the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, Division of Cancer Prevention,
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland). Previously, he evaluated food safety policies
for the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center at Michigan State
University.
Leslie D. Bourquin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and is affiliated with the National Food Safety
and Toxicology Center and Food Safety Policy Center at Michigan State University. His research examines factors influencing
the effective implementation of food safety standards and the ultimate impacts of these standards on public health. 相似文献
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Hanne Kirstine Adriansen 《Agriculture and Human Values》2006,23(2):215-229
Based on fieldwork in northern Senegal, this paper shows how some pastoralists in Ferlo have managed to use market opportunities
as a means to maintain their “pastoral way of life” Increased market involvement has enlarged the field of opportunities for
pastoral activities as well as the vulnerability of these activities. This has given rise to a dialectic process of diversification
and specialization. The paper is concerned with the portfolio of livelihood activities pastoralists use in order to respond
to adverse socio-economic and environmental conditions. Depending on the possibilities and values of a household, a certain
combination of activities is chosen and this may change from one year to another. Hence, the activities are used in a dynamic
way within households. On the basis of pastoral livelihood activities, four ideal types of pastoral livelihood strategies
can be constructed: “agro-pastoralism,” “Tabaski pastoralism,” “commercial pastoralism,” and “non-herding pastoralism.” These
four types illustrate how pastoralists re-invent their livelihoods in order to continue a pastoral way of life.
Hanne Kirstine Adriansen is a post doctoral fellow of development studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies. Her training is in human
geography and she has fieldwork experience from West Africa and the Middle East. Her research interests include pastoral populations,
dryland management, community development, and the philosophy of science and the role of values in research. 相似文献
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Keiko Tanaka 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(4):567-580
Using the case of food safety governance reform in Japan between 2001 and 2003, this paper examines the relationship between
science and trust. The paper explains how the discovery of the first BSE positive cow and consequent food safety scandals
in 2001 politicized the role of science in protecting the safety of the food supply. The analysis of the Parliamentary debate
focuses on the contestation among legislators and other participants over three dimensions of risk science, including “knowledge,”
“objects,” and “beneficiaries.” The metaphor of “seven samurai” and the relationally situated roles of “samurai,” “bandits,”
and “beneficiaries” are used to show that in the process of policy making certain moral and ethical expectations on a new
expert institution for food safety were contested and negotiated to frame responsibilities and commitments of social actors for creating the food
system based on trust.
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应用扩展的贸易引力模型,分析了欧盟水产品安全标准(氯霉素残留限量)对我国罗非鱼出口的影响.结果表明,严格的欧盟水产品残留物限量对我国罗非鱼的出口起到明显的促进作用,我国应建立与欧盟接轨的法律法规体系,提高罗非鱼的质量安全标准. 相似文献
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Consumers are bombarded with labels and claims that are intended to address their concerns about how food products are produced,
processed, and regulated. Among those are the natural or all-natural claims and the certified organic label. In this study,
two focus groups were conducted to explore consumers’ attitudes toward all-natural and organic pork and to gather their reactions
to the USDA organic standards for meat, and the policy for natural claims. Results indicated that participants had positive
associations with the terms “organic” and “all-natural” with exceptions regarding the trustworthiness of all-natural claims.
Participants perceived the “no” labeling theme (no antibiotics, no hormones, no chemicals, etc.) often coupled with the all-natural
label on pork products as identifying potential health and animal welfare risks. In response to the USDA standards and policies
for labeling pork products as organic or all-natural, participants expressed confusion and had many unanswered questions. 相似文献
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This paper focuses on the environmental and ethical attributes of food products and their production processes. These two aspects have been recently recognized and are becoming increasingly important in terms of signaling and of consumer perception. There are two relevant thematic domains: environmental and social. Within each domain there are two movements. Hence the paper first presents the four movements that have brought to the fore new aspects of food product quality, to wit: (1) aspects of environmental ethics (organic agriculture and integrated agriculture), and (2) social ethics (fair trade and ethical trade). Next, it describes how the actors in the movements (producers, retailers, NGOs, and governments) are organized and how consumers perceive each of the movements. From the perspective of the actors in the movements themselves, the movements are grouped into two “actors’ philosophies.” The first is a “radical” philosophy (the organic production and fair trade movements that arose in radical opposition to conventional agriculture or unfair trade relations), and the second is a “reformist” philosophy (the integrated agriculture and ethical trade movements that arose as efforts to modify but not radically change conventional agriculture). From the point of view of consumers, the classification of the movements is based on perceptions of the “domain” of the movements. That is, consumers tend to perceive the organic production movement and the integrated agricultural movement as a single group because they both deal with the environment. By contrast, consumers tend to group the fair trade movement and the ethical trade movement together because they both deal essentially with social ethics. Recently, key players such as large retailers and agribusinesses have adopted as part of their overall quality assurance programs both environmental and ethical attributes. Their involvement in and adoption of the goals of the movements have, however, generated tensions and conflicts. This is particularly true within the radical movements, because of concerns of cooptation. Finally, the paper identifies challenges faced by those promoting food products with environmental and social/ethical attributes as they attempt to communicate coherent signals to consumers at this crucial moment in the emergence of a mass market for these products.
Jean
-Marie Codron
is a Senior Researcher at INRA and co-director of MOISA, a public joint research laboratory involved in the social sciences. His research interests focus on three main lines of research: economics of contracts, economics of the firm, and economics of market institutions, with applications to “complex” food sectors, where product quality is difficult to measure and/or to signal to the consumer.
Lucie Sirieix
is Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour at SupAgro Montpellier, France, a national higher education establishment under the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Within the MOISA research unit, her main research topics are variety seeking, risk and trust, environmental and ethical consumer concerns, and sustainable consumption. Her specific research areas include organic products, fair trade, and regional products.
Thomas Reardon
is Professor of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. His work focuses on globalization, consolidation in the retail and processing sectors, and their effects on agrifood systems and trade as well as on the economics of private quality and safety standards. 相似文献
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Lena Partzsch 《Agriculture and Human Values》2011,28(3):413-425
The biofuel boom is placing enormous demands on existing cropping systems, with the most crucial consequences in the agri-food
sector. The biofuel industry is responding by initiating private governance and certification. The Roundtable on Sustainable
Palm Oil (RSPO) and the Cramer Commission, among others, have formulated criteria on “sustainable” biofuel production and
processing. This article explores the legitimacy of private governance and certification by the biofuel industry, highlighting
opportunities and challenges. It argues that the concept of output based legitimacy is problematic in the case of biofuel
as long as no consensus or commonly agreed “best” solution has been established on what sustainable biofuel production is.
Furthermore, it shows that the private governance initiatives analyzed fail to adequately include actors from developing countries.
Finally, the article argues that we need mechanisms for control and accountability in order to guarantee that the political
output of biofuel certification serves the common welfare. 相似文献
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Scaling up: Bringing public institutions and food service corporations
into the project for a local,sustainable food system in Ontario 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Harriet Friedmann 《Agriculture and Human Values》2007,24(3):389-398
This paper reports on a relationship between the University of Toronto and a non-profit, non-governmental (“third party”)
certifying organization called Local Flavour Plus (LFP). The University as of August 2006 requires its corporate caterers
to use local and sustainable farm products for a small but increasing portion of meals for most of its 60,000 students. LFP
is the certifying body, whose officers and consultants have strong relations of trust with sustainable farmers. It redefines
standards and verification to create ladders for farmers, Aramark and Chartwells (the corporations that won the bid), and
the University, to continuously raise standards of sustainability. After years of frustrated efforts, other Ontario institutions
are expressing interest, opening the possibility that a virtuous circle could lead to rapid growth in local, sustainable supply
chains. The paper examines the specificities of the LFP approach and of the Toronto and Canadian context. Individuals in LFP
acquired crucial skills, insights, experience, resources, and relationships of trust over 20 years within the Toronto “community
of food practice,” located in a supportive municipal, NGO and social movement context.
Harriet Friedman
PhD, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga and at the Centre for International Studies University
of Toronto. Her research is in international and local politics of food and agriculture, focusing on contested transitions
between food regimes. Her current research is on politics of standards and certification.
Thanks to Lori Stahlbrand, Mike Schreiner, and Rod MacRae of LFP and Debbie Field and Zahra Parvinian of FoodShare for sharing
time and insights at length, and to Wayne Roberts of TFPC, David Clandfield of New College, Josee Johnston, and Amber McNair
for helpful conversations about our “community of practice.” Thanks to Yossi Cadam for the ladder metaphor. 相似文献
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Driven by population pressures on natural resources, peri-urban pastoralists in the Far North Province of Cameroon have recently
intensified livestock production in their traditional pastoral system by feeding their cattle cottonseed cakes and other agricultural
byproducts to cope with the disappearance of rangelands typically available through the dry season. Although the crop–livestock
interactions in this altered intensive pastoral system seem similar to alterations recently named in mixed-farming systems
in West Africa, they are distinctly different and would require a different type of agricultural development support. I use
Bourdieu’s theoretical constructs of “habitus” and “capital” to explain those differences. 相似文献
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Governance in the Global Agro-food System: Backlighting the Role of Transnational Supermarket Chains
With the proliferation of private standards many significant decisions regarding public health risks, food safety, and environmental
impacts are increasingly taking place in the backstage of the global agro-food system. Using an analytical framework grounded
in political economy, we explain the rise of private standards and specific actors – notably supermarkets – in the restructuring
of agro-food networks. We argue that the global, political-economic, capitalist transformation – globalization – is a transition
from a Fordist regime to a regime of flexible accumulation (Harvey, 1989). We also argue that the standard making process
of this new regulatory regime is increasingly moving from the front stage – where it is open to public debate and democratic
decision-making bodies – to the backstage – where it is dominated by large supermarket procurement offices. We assert that
transnational supermarket chains are increasingly controlling what food is grown where, how, and by whom. We also contend
that the decision-making processes of transnational supermarket chains are typically “black-boxed.” The Euro-Retailer Produce
Working Group (EUREP) is presented as a case of private governance by transnational supermarket chains. We conclude by examining
the limitations and long-term efficacy of a system of private governance in the global agro-food system.
Jason Konefal is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His interests include environmental sociology,
food and agriculture, social movements, and science and technology studies. His dissertation research examines the political
economic restructuring of the global agrifood system and the implications for social and environmental movements.
Michael Mascarenhas is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His interests include political economy,
the sociology of science and technology, environmental and rural sociology, and globalization and development. His current
research involves a critical analysis of neoliberal water policy reform and indigenous inequalities. As of September 2005,
Michael has taken a position in the Department of Sociology at Kwantlen University College in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
Maki Hatanaka is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Her interests include food and agriculture,
development, and gender. Much of her recent research focuses on standards and thirdparty certification and their social and
environmental implications. 相似文献
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Jennifer Dawson Judy Sheeshka Donald C. Cole David Kraft Amy Waugh 《Agriculture and Human Values》2008,25(3):349-364
Three decades of concern over consumption of potentially contaminated Great Lakes fish has led government agencies and public
health proponents to implement risk assessment and management programs as a means of protecting the health of fishers and
their families. While well-meaning in their intent, these programs––and much of the research conducted to support and evaluate
them––were not designed to accommodate the understandings and concerns of the fish consumer. Results from a qualitative component
of a multi-disciplinary, multi-year research project on frequent (average 108 meals per year) consumers of Great Lakes fish
tell the fishers’ side of the story. We present data from 87 tape recorded interviews conducted with Vietnamese, Chinese,
and English-speaking participants that underscore the quality of freshly caught Great Lakes fish and the important social
and cultural benefits of fish and fishing to the consumer. We also outline the participants’ understandings of risk from eating
Great Lakes fish and the way in which fishers and their families manage this risk. The paper concludes with a discussion of
these benefits, risks, and risk management strategies as ways that Great Lakes fish consumers “construct” rather than “perceive”
risk. We advocate for risk assessment and management protocols that involve those who will be affected the most, such as frequent
consumers of Great Lakes fish, from the initial “risk characterization” stage through to any necessary risk communication.
Jennifer Dawson has a MA in Anthropology. In addition to her five years as Qualitative Research Director for the Fish and Wildlife Project, she has conducted research for the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Ontario College of Nurses, McMaster University, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (Ontario Division), and Hamilton-based NGOs. Judy Sheeshka is a Registered Dietitian and an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on food and nutrition policy, food security, risk communication, and the social and environmental determinants of eating behaviors. Donald C. Cole is a physician-epidemiologist with over two decades of experience in applied environmental health. He currently teaches, mentors, does research, and contributes research evidence to public health practice both in Canada and internationally. David Kraft is a Senior Consulting Associate with Strategic Communications Inc. In this capacity he designs advocacy campaigns, communication strategy and opinion research for many of Canada’s most important not-for-profit organizations. Recent clients have included Greenpeace, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (Ontario Division) and UNICEF Canada. David has an MA in Sociology. Amy Waugh is a Registered Dietitian and works for a Family Health Team, an Ontario provincial approach to primary health care that brings together different allied health care providers to work with family physicians to coordinate the highest possible quality of care for patients. 相似文献
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Jennifer Dawson has a MA in Anthropology. In addition to her five years as Qualitative Research Director for the Fish and Wildlife Project, she has conducted research for the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Ontario College of Nurses, McMaster University, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (Ontario Division), and Hamilton-based NGOs. Judy Sheeshka is a Registered Dietitian and an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on food and nutrition policy, food security, risk communication, and the social and environmental determinants of eating behaviors. Donald C. Cole is a physician-epidemiologist with over two decades of experience in applied environmental health. He currently teaches, mentors, does research, and contributes research evidence to public health practice both in Canada and internationally. David Kraft is a Senior Consulting Associate with Strategic Communications Inc. In this capacity he designs advocacy campaigns, communication strategy and opinion research for many of Canada’s most important not-for-profit organizations. Recent clients have included Greenpeace, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (Ontario Division) and UNICEF Canada. David has an MA in Sociology. Amy Waugh is a Registered Dietitian and works for a Family Health Team, an Ontario provincial approach to primary health care that brings together different allied health care providers to work with family physicians to coordinate the highest possible quality of care for patients. 相似文献
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Formation causes and recovery of the “Black Soil Type” degraded alpine grassland in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The formation causes and ecological rebuilding of the “Black Soil Type” degraded alpine grassland are summarized. The formation
of the “Black Soil Type” degraded grassland was caused mainly by climate warming, decreasing glaciers, overgrazing, and damage
by rats. The ecological restoration of the “Black Soil Type” degraded alpine grassland relies not only on grassland building,
but also on reasonable management and planning of grassland resources. Guaranty measures for developing the alpine grassland
animal husbandry in a healthy way include intensifying the educational investment in pasture regions, practicing long-term
contracts for grassland, and strengthening the grassland legislation. The authors believe that the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
ecosystem has a special characteristic intertia or “inert gases”, which weaken the self-renewing capability of the ecosystem
and makes its structure frail. The inertia characteristic may be the important reason that makes ecological rebuilding so
difficult; in addition, other problems need to be studied deeply to provide scientific bases for the ecological building in
the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
Translated from Chinese Journal of Ecology, 2005, 24(6): 652–656 [译自: 生态学杂志] 相似文献
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A major reason for the low adoption of modern varieties of seed among small-scale farmers in developing countries is the inability of formal, centralized seed production systems to meet their complex and diverse seed requirements. Drawing on experiences in Uganda with the common bean, the paper proposes seed production by farmer seed enterprises (FSEs) as a strategy for meeting dual objectives: to sustainably distribute and promote modern crop varieties and to establish a regular source of clean seed of either local or modern varieties. It reports on lessons learned from the Ugandan experience and offers a conceptual framework and guidelines for establishing economically and institutionally sustainable FSEs. While FSEs offer a potentially sustainable solution to the problem of seed supply, the challenge of implementing and scaling up this approach in eastern and southern Africa remains formidable. Collaborative linkages need to be fostered between farmers, researchers, agro-enterprise specialists, NGOs, and the formal seed industry. Seed policy reforms need to be implemented and more client-oriented research systems must be institutionalized. 相似文献
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Dayton M. Lambert Christopher D. Clark Michael D. Wilcox Seong-Hoon Cho 《Agriculture and Human Values》2011,28(4):519-532
Changing land-use patterns and amenity-driven migration have brought agriculture back into people’s lives, but there is a
disconnection between the realities of production agriculture and romantic images attached to farming. To the extent that
“rurality” is attached to farming, people may desire to live in rural places, but they may be unprepared for the realities
of living near a working farm. Greater numbers of communities are facing “either/or” outcomes regarding the conversion of
“open space” land to residential or commercial uses versus landscape preservation. This study explored the perceptions and
preferences of a community regarding the conversion of a hypothetical parcel of open space to a working dairy or to a residential
subdivision. Results suggest that the opportunity costs of foregoing open space for residential development are high, with
implications for valuing the conservation of traditions that are tied to the land versus conversion of land solely for development
purposes. 相似文献
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Stewart Lockie 《Agriculture and Human Values》2009,26(3):193-201
With “consumer demand” credited with driving major changes in the food industry related to food quality, safety, environmental,
and social concerns, the contemporary politics of food has become characterized by a variety of attempts to redefine food
consumption as an expression of citizenship that speaks of collective rights and responsibilities. Neoliberal political orthodoxy
constructs such citizenship in terms of the ability of individuals to monitor and regulate their own behavior as entrepreneurs
and as consumers. By contrast, many proponents of alternative food networks promote the idea that food citizenship is expressed
through participation in social arrangements based on solidarity and coordinated action rather than on contractual and commoditized
relationships between so-called “producers” and “consumers.” This paper thus focuses its analysis on the strategies used to
mobilize people as consumers of particular products and the ways, in turn, in which people use their consumption choices as
expressions of social agency or citizenship. In particular, the paper examines how the marketing, pricing, and distribution
of foods interact with food standards to enable and constrain specific expressions of food citizenship. It is argued that
narrow and stereotypical constructions of the “ethical consumer” help to limit the access of particular people and environmental
values, such as biodiversity, to the ethical marketplace.
Stewart Lockie is Associate Professor of Rural and Environmental Sociology at Central Queensland University. He is co-author of Going organic: Mobilizing networks for environmentally responsible food production (CAB International, 2006). 相似文献
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Stewart Lockie is Associate Professor of Rural and Environmental Sociology at Central Queensland University. He is co-author of Going organic: Mobilizing networks for environmentally responsible food production (CAB International, 2006). 相似文献
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Robin Jane Roff 《Agriculture and Human Values》2009,26(4):351-363
Third-party certification is an increasingly prevalent tactic which agrifood activists use to “help” consumers shop ethically,
and also to reorganize commodity markets. While consumers embrace the chance to “vote with their dollar,” academics question
the potential for labels to foster widespread political, economic, and agroecological change. Yet, despite widespread critique,
a mounting body of work appears resigned to accept that certification may be the only option available to activist groups
in the context of neoliberal socio-economic orders. At the extreme, Guthman (Antipode 39(3): 457, 2007) posits that “at this political juncture… ‘there is no alternative.” This paper offers a different assessment of third-party
certification, and points to interventions that are potentially more influential that are currently available to activist
groups. Exploring the evolution of the Non-GMO Project—a novel certification for foods that are reasonably free of genetically
engineered (GE) material—I make two arguments. First, I echo the literature’s critical perspective by illustrating how certification
projects become vulnerable to industry capture. Reviewing its history and current context, I suggest that the Non-GMO Project
would be better suited to helping companies avoid mounting public criticism than to substantially reorient agrifood production.
Second, I explore the “politics of the possible” in the current political economy and argue that while neoliberalization and
organizers’ places within the food system initially oriented the group towards the private sector, the choice to pursue certification
arose directly from two industry partnerships. Consequently, current trends might favor market mechanisms, but certification
is only one possible intervention that has emerged as a result of particular, and perhaps avoidable, circumstances. The article
offers tentative delineation of alternatives ways that activists might intervene in agrifood and political economic systems
given present constraints. 相似文献
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This paper examines the discourses and practices of pedigree livestock breeding, focusing on beef cattle and sheep in the
UK, concentrating on an under-examined aspect of this—the deselection and rejection of some animals from future breeding populations.
In the context of exploring how animals are valued and represented in different ways in relation to particular agricultural
knowledge-practices, it focuses on deselecting particular animals from breeding populations, drawing attention to shifts in
such knowledge-practices related to the emergence of “genetic” techniques in livestock breeding which are arguably displacing
“traditional” visual and experiential knowledge’s of livestock animals. The paper situates this discussion in the analytical
framework provided by Foucault’s conception of “biopower,” exploring how interventions in livestock populations aimed at the
fostering of domestic animal life are necessarily also associated with the imperative that certain animals must die and not
contribute to the future reproduction of their breed. The “geneticization” of livestock breeding produces new articulations
of this process associated with different understandings of animal life and the possibilities of different modes of intervention
in livestock populations. Genetic techniques increasingly quantify and rationalize processes of selection and deselection,
and affect how animals are perceived and valued both as groups and as individuals. The paper concludes by emphasizing that
the valuation of livestock animals is contested, and that the entanglement of “traditional” and “genetic” modes of valuation
means that there are multiple layers of valuation and (de)selection involved in breeding knowledge-practices. 相似文献
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There has been widespread academic and popular debate about the transformative potential of consumption choices, particularly
food shopping. While popular food media is optimistic about “shopping for change,” food scholars are more critical, drawing
attention to fetishist approaches to “local” or “organic,” and suggesting the need for reflexive engagement with food politics.
We argue that reflexivity is central to understanding the potential and limitations of consumer-focused food politics, but
argue that this concept is often relatively unspecified. The first objective of this paper is to operationalize reflexivity
and advance understanding of reflexivity as an important tool for understanding the lived experience of food shopping. Our
second objective is to explore the range of reflexivity observed in a mainstream “shopping for change” market sector. To do
this, we draw from in-depth interviews with shoppers at Whole Foods Market (WFM)—a retail venue with the stated goal of making
consumers “feel good about where [they] shop.” This group is chosen because of our interest in investigating the reflexivity
of consumer engagement with the corporatized arm of ethical consumption—a realm of concern to food scholars as alternative
agricultural initiatives are absorbed (both materially and symbolically) into corporate institutions. Our analysis suggests
that shopping at venues like WFM is primarily motivated by traditional consumer pleasures, even for politicized consumers,
a finding that poses serious limitations for a consumer-regulated food system. 相似文献
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This paper contributes to the growing social science scholarship on organic agriculture in the global South. A “boundary”
framework is used to understand how negotiation among socially and geographically disparate social worlds (e.g., non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), foreign donors, agricultural researchers, and small-scale farmers) has resulted in the diffusion of
non-certified organic agriculture in Kenya. National and local NGOs dedicated to organic agriculture promotion, training,
research, and outreach are conceptualized as “boundary organizations.” Situated at the intersection of multiple social worlds,
these NGOs engage in “strategic bridge building” and “strategic boundary-work.” Strategic bridge building involves the creation
and use of “boundary objects” and “hybrid forms” that serve as meeting grounds for otherwise disconnected social worlds. Strategic
boundary-work involves efforts to “scientize,” and thereby legitimize, organic agriculture in the eyes of foreign donors,
potential research collaborators, the Kenyan state, and farmers. Examples of strategic bridge building and boundary-work are
presented in the paper. The Kenyan case illustrates that different social actors can unite around a shared objective – namely,
the promotion and legitimization of organic agriculture as an alternative to the Green Revolution (GR) technological package.
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