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  • THE REAL COST OF CHEAP FOOD
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    THE REAL COST OF CHEAP FOOD
    MICHAEL CAROLAN
    This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us. The author shows why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what it promises. The food produced under this regime is in fact exceedingly expensive. Many ...

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  • SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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    SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    MICHAEL S CAROLAN
    The fourth edition of Society and the Environment centers its discussion on realistic solutions to the problems that persist and examines current controversies within a socio‑organizational context, shifting focus away from simply explaining what is wrong with the world around us. Introducing this “pragmatic environmentalism,” Carolan discusses the complex pressures and variabl...

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  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
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    THE SOCIOLOGY OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
    MICHAEL CAROLAN
    Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society. The book begins by examining the food economy, with chapters focusing on foodscapes, the financialization of food, and a new chapter dedicated to food and nutrition (in)security. In Part II, the book add...

    $1,060.00

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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SUSTAINABLE AND REGENERATIVE FOOD SYSTEMS
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    ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SUSTAINABLE AND REGENERATIVE FOOD SYSTEMS
    MICHAEL CAROLAN / JESSICA DUNCAN / HAN WISKERKE
    This handbook includes contributions from established and emerging scholars from around the world and draws on multiple approaches and subjects to explore the socio-economic, cultural, ecological, institutional, legal, and policy aspects of regenerative food practices. The future of food is uncertain. We are facing an overwhelming number of interconnected and complex challenges...

    $1,360.00

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  • EMBODIED FOOD POLITICS
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    EMBODIED FOOD POLITICS
    MICHAEL S. CAROLAN
    While the phenomenon of embodied knowledge is becoming integrated into the social sciences, critical geography, and feminist research agendas it continues to be largely ignored by agro-food scholars. This book helps fill this void by inserting into the food literature living, feeling, sensing bodies and will be of interest to food scholars as well as those more generally intere...

    $1,560.00

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  • DECENTERING BIOTECHNOLOGY
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    DECENTERING BIOTECHNOLOGY
    MICHAEL S. CAROLAN
    Decentering Biotechnology explores the nature of technology, objects and patent law. Investigating the patenting of organic life and the manner in which artifacts of biotechnology are given their object-ive appearance, Carolan details the enrollment mechanisms that give biotechnology its momentum. Drawing on legal judgements and case studies, this fascinating book examines the ...

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  • BIOLOGICAL ECONOMIES
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    BIOLOGICAL ECONOMIES
    RICHARD LE HERON, HUGH CAMPBELL, NICK LEWIS AND MICHAEL CAROLAN
    Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be summarized as: ‘more than human’ approaches to economic life; a ‘post-structural political economy’ of food and agricultur...

    $1,320.00

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  • CHEAPONOMICS
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    CHEAPONOMICS
    MICHAEL CAROLAN
    Do you really think you are getting a good deal when given that free mobile phone for switching service providers, if a multinational retailer undercuts its competitors or by the fact that food is relatively cheaper today in many countries than ever before? Think again! As Michael Carolan clearly shows in this compelling book, cheapness is an illusion. The real cost of low pric...

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  • RECLAIMING FOOD SECURITY
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    RECLAIMING FOOD SECURITY
    MICHAEL S. CAROLAN
    In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible. A secure food system is one that affords people and nations – in both the present and future – the capabilities to prosper and lead long, happy, and healthy lives. For a variety of reasons, food security has come to be synonymous with chea...

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