Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions
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...…in the era of fossil capital, do we not also live in the era of agrarian capitalism – characterized by punctuated revolutions in class struggle, nature, and the productive forces, so necessary to the expanded reproduction of labor power (e.g. Bernstein 2010; McMichael 2013; Moore 2015a, ch. 10)?...
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...It contributes to a general process of relocation of food production to the global South, combining cost saving and state-sponsored ‘agro-security mercantilism’ (McMichael 2013a)....
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...Contrary to the classical agrarian question problematic, the movement privileges peasant agency in a programmatic approach to restoring the viability of the countryside for farming and addressing domestic food security – as governed by national democratic principles (McMichael 2013c)....
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...Indirectly, there are the more seductive methods of tenuous chaining of smallholders to new value circuits controlled by agribusiness and subsidized with public monies (McMichael 2013b)....
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...…this does not alter the WTO trade regime, since the limited peace clause applies essentially to low-income (rather than global) consumers residing in the relevant countries. for food supplies call the trade regime into question, triggering a process of restructuring (McMichael 2012, 2013a)....
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...Arguably, the twenty-first-century agrarian question inverts the classical agrarian question’s theoretical focus on proletarian political opportunity, converting the question of capital’s reproduction to a question of the reproduction of the food producer (McMichael 2013c)....
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...…with different purposes, with McMichael focussing on ‘social movements from the global South as the key hinge in a current food regime dynamic’ (146–47).36 Later, he observed that his difference with Friedmann ‘raises the issue of what constitutes a regime’ (McMichael 2013, 42), a basic issue then....
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...The achievements of ‘high farming’ and their conditions were stressed in the work of Colin Duncan (1996, 1999), referred to by Friedmann (2000, 489–91) and McMichael (2013, 70–71). broad agricultural crisis in Europe resulting from cheap overseas grains, resulted in widespread protectionism....
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...Can this problem be made to vanish by asserting that ‘“peasantness” is a political rather than an analytical category’ (McMichael 2013, 59, emphasis added)?...
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...This is not inevitable, however: the ‘value relation analytic’ can reveal ‘how capital’s food regime exploits labour-power and nature together’ (McMichael 2013, 135)....
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...(McMichael 2009, 153) A major instance of this process is the ‘neoliberalization of nature’ (McMichael 2013, 130) beyond the mechanisation and ‘chemicalisation’ historically associated with industrial agriculture and intensified today; that is to say, the pursuit by corporations of private property…...
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...Given the structure – and structuring power - of the food ‘regime’ (McMichael 2013), and the limited space and diffusion of short food chains, for a number of products the choice may well just be ‘grow-your-own’....
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