Organic Sovereignties - Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Washington Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Culture, Place, and Nature
Release date:	February 2018
Authors:	Guntra A Aistara
Series editors:	K. Sivaramakrishnan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-295-74310-3
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Organic farming Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > International trade > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
LSN:	0-295-74310-7
Barcode:	9780295743103

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