The Neoliberal Regime in Agri-Food: Crisis, Resilience and/or Restructuring
Rural Sociological Society (RSS), Sociology of Agri-food Research Interest Group (SAFRIG)
July 26-July 29, 2012
Palmer House Hotel - Chicago, IL
RSS SAFRIG 75th Call for Papers
SAFRIG Mini-Conference Program
Session 1: Governance and/in Crisis
- Alessandro Bonanno - The legitimation crisis of neoliberal globalization: Instances from agriculture and food
- Lawrence Busch - How neoliberal myths endanger democracy and open new avenues for democratic action
- Steven Wolf - U.S. agrienvironmental policy: Neoliberalization of nature meets old public management
Session 2: Mechanisms, Processes and Dynamics
- Anouk Patel-Campillo - Operationalizating neoliberal incursions: "The competitiveness agenda" as an ideological project of diffusion
- Madelaine Fairbairn - "Like gold with yield": New intersections between farmland and finance
- Kathryn Anderson - The Potential for Agri-business to Obstruct Reduction of Water Pollution from Livestock Farms: Evidence from France, Netherlands and Wisconsin USA
- André Magnan - The rise and fall of a prairie giant: The Canadian Wheat Board in food regime history
Session 3: Reading the Landscape
- Matthew Hoffman - Extractive Localism: Social Entrepreneurship, Urban Mobility, and Local Food
- Morgan Buck - Policing the new enclosures: Resistance and repression in the neoliberal food system
- Haruhiko Iba - Beyond farming: cases of revitalization of rural communities through multi-role community farming enterprise as social service provider
- Anne DeLessio-Parson - Globalized meat in the neoliberal food regime: Evidence from Argentina
Session 4: Corporations, the State and Agri-food Regimes
- Doug Constance - First the chicken: The origins of flexible accumulation in agrifood
- Mary Hendrickson - Power and agency in the neoliberal era: The state and transnational agrifood firms
- Jill Harrison - Navigating the neoliberal-nativist interface: Farmer survival and the construction of racially segregated workplaces
Session 5: Alternatives to Neoliberal Global Agriculture
- Mark Juhasz - Planning and developing information visualization tools that foster agricultural innovation alternatives
- Jacques Pollini - Toward a "science of making the good" ? Insights from rural development
- Kiyohiko Sakamoto - Spoiling governments have served their purposes? Challenges of government-led community supported agriculture (CSA) enterprises in Japan
Session 6: Exploitation and Resistance in Global Agri-food
- Rebecca Som Castellano - Creating rupture through policy: Considering the importance of ideas in agrifood change
- J. Dara Bloom - Supply Chain Governance in Supermarkets' Localized Supply Chains
- Gretchen Thompson - Food import dependency and global hunger: A food regime analysis of the 2010 global hunger index across developing countries
Session 7: Regulation and the Neoliberal Global Regime
- Valentine Cadieux - Facilitating dialogue around contrasting models of food system theories of change: Intervention research with local food governance efforts in the context of global and neoliberal food regimes
- Jason Jones - Local Food Sovereignty Laws: Narratives, Rights, and Regulation
- Devparna Roy - To Bt or not to Bt? State, civil society, and firms debate GM crops in democratic India
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