What on Earth is the Modern World-System? Foodgetting and Territory in the Modern Era and Beyond

By H. Friedman. 2000

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The promise, and dangers of genetic technologies have refocused the attention of city dwellers on an enduring reality of the human species: We are eating animals. We are breathing animals, too, forced (as we render them extinct) to notice that we exchange gases with plants. We are drinking animals, forced (as we render it toxic) to notice that the same water we drink and urinate in circulates through rivers, seas and clouds, and through the cells of all species. Until we pushed back the wild places of earth—that is, until very recently—humans were able to take oxygen, water, and the in?nitude of wild beings for granted. Not so with food. Only since our fascination with industry developed has human attention drifted away from the source and meaning of food.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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• Agrarian political economy and modern world capitalism: the contributions of food regime analysis (2016, background): “For the period 1870-1914, they are covered only by general references to working class movements in Europe struggling (successfully) for better standards of living, including the means to eat better, and some elaboration of the ‘new class’ of commercial family farmers in the USA and elsewhere (ibid ”
• The Neoliberal Food Regime: Neoregulation and the New Division of Labor in North America. (2010, background): “…outlined above, we draw on the historical trajectory of agriculture’s internationalization (Sanderson 1986), as outlined in the food-regime (FR) perspective articulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael (Friedmann 1992, 1993, 1995, 2000; Friedmann and McMichael 1989; McMichael 1992, 2004b).”