Screen LibraryWilted : pathogens, chemicals, and the fragile future of the strawberry industry /
"Wilted tells how, in the face of emergent soil pathogens, the California strawberry industry came to rely on the use of highly toxic soil fumigants. Once widely adopted, fumigation reverberated throughout the rest of the production system--in plant breeding, land access, labor practices, marke...
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University of California Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oakland, California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Critical environments: nature, science, and politics ;
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| Summary: |
"Wilted tells how, in the face of emergent soil pathogens, the California strawberry industry came to rely on the use of highly toxic soil fumigants. Once widely adopted, fumigation reverberated throughout the rest of the production system--in plant breeding, land access, labor practices, marketing, and more, bringing tremendous productivity. Yet, the very entanglements of plants, soils, chemicals, climate, and laboring bodies that once made strawberry production so lucrative in the Golden State have now turned into a set of interlocking threats, especially as social and ecological condition |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520305281 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 0520305280 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9780520305274 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 0520305272 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 9780520973343 (ebook) 0520973348 (ebook) |
| Index Number: | HD9259 |
| CLC: |
S436.68 F371.261 |
| Call Number: | S436.68/G984 |
| Contents: | Prologue: The battle against methyl iodide -- Introduction: California strawberry assemblages -- Emergent pathogens -- Curiously bred plants and proprietary institutions -- Chemical solutions and regulatory push back -- Soiled advantages and highly valued land -- Scarce labor and disposable bodies -- Precarious repairs and growing pathologies -- Imperfect alternatives and tenuous futures -- Conclusion: The problem with the solution. |