Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime

Alessandro Bonanno is Texas State University System Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA. Steven A. Wolf is Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University, New York, USA.

• Introduction Part I: The Corporate Domination of Agri-Food 1. Is Resistance Futile? How Global Agri-Food Attempts to Co-opt the Alternatives 2. Best Practices: The Artificial Negativity of Agri-Food 3. Accountability, Rationality, and Politics: Critical Analysis of Agri-environmental Policy Reform in USA 4. Market Civilization’ and Global Agri-Food: Understanding their Dynamics and (In)Coherence through Multiple Resistances 5. Resistance to the Neoliberal Food Regime in the Sphere of Consumption: Considering the Importance of Mental Labor in Food Provisioning Part II: Resistance and/through the State 6. Reflecting on Counter-Hegemonic Strategies of Food and Nutritional Security: Notes on the Brazilian Case 7.Geographical Indication and Resistance in Global Agri-Food: The Case of Miso in Japan 8. Community Action, Government Support and Historical Distance: Enabling Transformation or Neoliberal Inclusions? Part III: The diversity of Resistance 9. Peasant Resistance to the Transnationalization of Agriculture in Mexico’s South Frontier 10. Communities Against Capital? The Politics of Palm Oil Expansion in Colombia’s Middle Magdalena 11. Resisting Monsanto: Monarch Butterflies and Cyber-Actors 12. Haiti – Open for Business’: New Perspectives on Inclusive and Sustainable Development 13. Imperfect, Partial, and Interstitial: Gradations of Resistance in a Failed Food Hub Conclusions: The Contradictions of Resistance to Neoliberal Agri-Food