Overview
- Proposes the use of Political Ecology for a coherent understanding of the socio-environmental dynamics of capitalism
- Explores new paths of transition towards more sustainable and resilient futures
- Critically engages with problematic yet prevalent approaches towards understanding the notion of ‘environment and society’
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty
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Crisis and Resistance
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Resilience as Counter-Hegemony
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About this book
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-economiccrisis.
Reviews
“Over the last three decades, research on the political economy of food regimes, as exemplified by the pioneering work of Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, has revolutionized how we look at the development of agriculture within the capitalist world system. With this book, Mark Tilzey emerges as a major new theorist and historical analyst within food systems research, standing beside Friedmann and McMichael. His analysis of the “first food regime” of the early-to-mid nineteenth century, his treatment of the concept of food sovereignty, his explorations of ecological Marxism, and his critical case studies of neoliberal food regimes, as well as socialist alternatives, all make this book a quarry of ideas, to which the interested reader will no doubt feel compelled to return again and again.” (John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mark Tilzey is Senior Research Fellow in the Governance of Food Systems for Resilience at Coventry University, UK. His research interests include political ecology, agroecology, agri-environmental politics and governance, and the international political economy of agri-food systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty
Book Subtitle: Crisis, Resistance, and Resilience
Authors: Mark Tilzey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64556-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64555-1Published: 13 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87819-5Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64556-8Published: 20 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 394
Topics: Environmental Sociology, Human Geography, Environmental Geography