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Rebels for the Soil - The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement (Hardcover)
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Rebels for the Soil - The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement (Hardcover)
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This book investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as
a social movement. Using the tools of political sociology it
analyzes and explains how both people and ideas have shaped a
movement that from its inception aimed to change global
agriculture. Starting from the British Empire in the 1930's, where
the first trans-national roots of organic farming took hold,
through to the internet-mediated social protests against
genetically modified crops at the end of the twentieth century, the
author traces the rise to prominence of the movement. As well as
providing a historical account, the book explains the movement's
on-going role in fostering and organising alternatives to the
dominant intensive and industrial forms of agriculture, such as
promoting local food produce and animal welfare. By considering it
as a trans-national movement from its inception, aiming at cultural
and social change, the book highlights what is unique about the
organic movement and why it has risen only relatively recently to
public attention. The author reports original research findings,
focusing largely on the English-speaking world. The work is
grounded in academic enquiry and theory, but also provides a
narrative through which the movement can be understood by the more
general interested reader.
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