The power of food
By Philip McMichael. 2000
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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science
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- Big Food, Nutritionism, and Corporate Power (2017, background): “The political economy of food literature has identified this period with the rise of a ‘corporate food regime’, in which corporate actors began to take a leading role in shaping the major trends in the sector, particularly through their market dominance (McMichael, 2000).”
- Resistance, redistribution, and power in the Fair Trade banana initiative (2005, background): “More specifically, the hegemonic forces which uphold the dominant agro-food system are the key elements of what McMichael (2000a) describes as a global corporate food regime that is characterized by tendencies toward increasing centralization, concentration, corporate control, and privatization…”
- The Long Green Revolution (2013, methodology): “McMichael (2000a, 26) cites a caption on Monsanto’s homepage: ‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?”
- Breaking new ground in food regime theory: corporate environmentalism, ecological feedbacks and the ‘food from somewhere’ regime? (2009, unknown): “foods (McMichael 2000a).”
- Buying into the food system: Trends in food retailing in the US and implications for local foods (2002, background): “tions in American society and the world as a whole have contributed to local food efforts, often accompanied by a political and personal distaste for agrochemicals, food additives, and more recently genetically modified organisms ( McMichael, 2000 ).”
- Agricultural policy discourses in the European post-Fordist transition: neoliberalism, neomercantilism and multifunctionality (2005, background): “…as processors, distributors and retailers as key and influential players in the last 20 years has meant that agricultural market liberalization and the accelerated dismantling of state support now has strong support as a policy project (Cafruny, 1989; Hart, 1997; McMichael, 2000; Josling, 2002).”
- Food as Commons or Commodity? Exploring the Links between Normative Valuations and Agency in Food Transition (2017, background): “53); the desire for food is the most powerful driver of human agency [75]; and food has been associated with agency [76], power [77] and a means to contest the system [78].”
- Weak Coffee: Certification and Co-Optation in the Fair Trade Movement (2012, background): “Many observers challenge claims that neoliberal globalization has weakened nation-states, arguing they have been profoundly reconfigured rather than eviscerated, while nonetheless acknowledging the greatly increased power of TNCs (e.g., McMichael 2000; Sassen 1996).”
- Farmers' markets and the “good food” value chain: a preliminary study (2008, background): “…or explicitly, as a social dimension of “good food” choices through such terms as “community farm” (Groh and McFadden 1997), “community agriculture” (McMichael, 2000), “community-shared agriculture” (e.g. Jacques and Collins 2003, Kittredge 1996, Kloppenburg et al. 1996, Zsolnai 2002),…”
- Opening Spaces through Relocalization: Locating Potential Resistance in the Weaknesses of the Global Food System (2002, unknown): “…researchers have examined movements in sustainable agriculture and food (Feenstra 1997), community food security (Allen 1999), civic agriculture (Lyson 2000) and fair trade (Raynolds 2002), all of which McMichael (2000) suggests are expressions of the crisis of development in food and agriculture.”