Organic Sovereignties

Struggles Over Farming in an Age of Free Trade

Guntra A. Aistara (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2018
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-74311-0 (ISBN)

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This first sustained ethnographic study of organic agriculture outside the United States traces its meanings, practices, and politics in two nations typically considered worlds apart: Latvia and Costa Rica. Situated on the frontiers of the European Union and the United States, these geopolitically and economically in-between places illustrate ways that international treaties have created contradictory pressures for organic farmers.

Organic farmers in both countries build multispecies networks of biological and social diversity and create spaces of sovereignty within state and suprastate governance bodies. Organic associations in Central America and Eastern Europe face parallel challenges in balancing multiple identities as social movements, market sectors, and NGOs while finding their place in regions and nations reshaped by world events.

Guntra A. Aistara is associate professor of environmental sciences and policy at Central European University in Budapest.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2018
Reihe/Serie	Culture, Place, and Nature
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): K. Sivaramakrishnan
Zusatzinfo	4 maps, 21 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-295-74311-5 / 0295743115
ISBN-13	978-0-295-74311-0 / 9780295743110
Zustand	Neuware