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Small books for interdisciplinary field studies
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Critical Development Studies Series
Small books in the interdisciplinary field of critical development studies
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Critical Development Studies series encompasses a broad array of issues ranging from the sustainability of the environment, the political economy and sociology of social inequality, alternative models of local and community-based development, the land and resource-grabbing dynamics of extractive capital, the subnational and global dynamics of political and economic power, and the forces of social change and resistance, as well as the contours of contemporary struggles against the destructive operations and ravages of capitalism and imperialism in the twenty-first century.
This series provides a forum for the publication of small books in the interdisciplinary field of critical development studies — to generate knowledge and ideas about transformative change and alternative development.
About series editors
Henry Veltmeyer is a research professor at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (Mexico) and professor emeritus of International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University (Canada), with a specialized interest in Latin American development. He is also co-chair of the Critical Development Studies Network and a co-editor of Fernwood’s Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies series.
Annette Aurélie Desmarais is the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty at the University of Manitoba (Canada). She is the author of La Via Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants (Fernwood, 2007).
RaĂşl Delgado Wise is a research professor and director of the PhD program in Development Studies at the Universidad AutĂłnoma de Zacatecas (Mexico). He holds the prestigious UNESCO Chair on Migration and Development and is executive director of the International Migration and Development Network, as well as author and editor of some twenty books and more than a hundred essays.
Newest in the series
Global Fishers
The Politics of Transnational Movements
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By
Elyse Noble Mills
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Global politics around fisheries are complex and contentious. Embedded within this sector, small-scale fishers’ movements are continuously confronted with new actors, issues and conflicting interests. Yet, these movements and their political agendas have played a critical role in global fisheries. This book offers an insightful exploration and analysis of two transnational movements — the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers (WFF) — tracing their origins, development, struggles and engagement in international political spaces. It explores three overlapping analytical spheres: transnational movements contesting and seeking to influence the politics of global fisheries; international political spaces movements are prioritizing; and contentious fisheries issues movements are struggling over.
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About the author
Elyse Noble Mills is a program associate for the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, working with fishers’ organizations on international processes and campaigns. She has a PhD from the International Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands, where her research focused on the politics of transnational fishers’ movements and global fisheries.
Advance praise
“This is a very well researched and written book that will make an important contribution to the scholarship and practice of transnational fishers’ movements and social movements more broadly. The text provides a valuable overview of two key network organizations at the centre of fishers’ movements and traces their origins, development, and engagement in contemporary transnational political spaces.”
— Charles Levkoe, Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems and Associate Professor, Lakehead University
“A powerful message about the past, present and future of global fishers’ movements. This book advances our understandings of the politics of fishers’ movements and, in so doing, offers important insights into the politics of fisheries and food systems more broadly. A must read for anyone working at the intersection of movements and food governance.”
— Jessica Duncan, Associate Professor in the Politics of Food Systems Transformations, Wageningen University
“Can we conceive food sovereignty and climate justice without the peoples from the lakes, rivers and oceans? Clearly not and yet we know little about them. This book is a ground breaking contribution to fill this gap. It tells the story of the fisher peoples, their struggles and aspirations, and how they have organized to defend not just themselves but our blue planet.”
— Sofia Monsalve, Secretary General, FIAN International
“Global Fishers: The Politics of Transnational Movements is a fascinating book that should be essential reading for anyone interested in the world’s small-scale fisheries, in social justice movements, and in big global issues of climate change and food security. Mills explores how these all inter-relate, in an intriguing book that looks back in time, and forward, through the lens of the two major international fishers’ movements.”
— Anthony Charles, Director, School of the Environment, Saint Mary’s University, Canada
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The Political Economy of Agribusiness
A Critical Development Perspective
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By
Maria Luisa Mendonça
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What is agribusiness? When did it emerge? In answering these questions, Mendonça traces the global contours of contemporary agriculture, bringing a critical analysis of the origins of agribusiness in the United States and its subsequent international signature. The investigation of historical dynamics reveals that the industrialization of agriculture was a result of a dialectical movement of economic crisis and expansion. This analysis sheds new light on current debates about food sovereignty, agriculture technologies, international financial markets and farmland speculation.
Mendonça challenges the established contemporary discourse regarding the contribution that agribusiness makes to economic development. Industrialization of agriculture demands increasing amounts of credit for capital inputs, which are captured by agribusiness corporations, leading to market concentration. This explains how global economic policies directly impact land and food systems, as across the production “chain” multinational corporations control production and trading mechanisms.
For those who are new to the study of agribusiness, this book provides a clear introduction to global trends. For those more engaged it serves as a valuable overview, an excellent text for students involved in studies of agriculture and food sovereignty.
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About the author
Maria Luisa Mendonça is director of Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos (Network for Social Justice and Human Rights) and research scholar at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center. She is the editor of annual book Human Rights in Brazil, and her publications cover the history and political economy of agriculture, food, land and water systems, as well as geopolitical processes of resistance by rural social movements. Her research anticipated a trend in financial capital to “migrate” to farmland markets in the Global South after the collapse of the real estate market in the US in 2008. Her experience includes documentary filmmaking, investigative journalism and community-based research. She has taught international political economy at University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), and was a visiting scholar at Cornell University. Mendonça is a co-founder of the World Social Forum and has served in expert meetings on the Right to Food at the United Nations.
Advance praise
"The Political Economy of Agribusiness by Maria Luisa Mendonça is a brilliantly written small book about a huge issue confronting humanity: agribusiness – and how it causes social problems such as land grabbing, inequality and exploitation, and provokes resistance. It is a must-read for academics and activists alike."
— Saturnino M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Netherlands
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Why we recommend this book
The book combines historical investigation, grassroots work, new dynamics of critical development theory and political economy. It is a result of several years of close work with rural social movements. It brings a critical development perspective from the global South about international political economy, based on a dialectical analysis. It provides a critical analysis of the development of agribusiness and its international expansion with a particular focus on Brazil, written by a Brazilian scholar.
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