Screen LibraryThe political economy of the agri-food system in Thailand : hegemony, counter-hegemony, and co-optation of oppositions /
"The mainstream agri-food system in Thailand has been shaped to aid capital accumulation by domestic and transnational hegemonic forces, and is currently sustained through hegemonic agri-food production-distribution, governance structures and ideational order. However, sustainable agriculture a...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ;
90 |
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| Summary: |
"The mainstream agri-food system in Thailand has been shaped to aid capital accumulation by domestic and transnational hegemonic forces, and is currently sustained through hegemonic agri-food production-distribution, governance structures and ideational order. However, sustainable agriculture and land reform movements have to certain extents managed to offer alternatives. This book adopts a neo-Marxist and Gramscian approach to studying the political economy of the agricultural and food system in Thailand (1990-2014). The author argues that hegemonic forces have many measures to co-opt disse |
| Carrier Form: | x, 216 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [180]-206) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138288416 (hardback) : 1138288411 |
| Index Number: | HD9016 |
| CLC: | F333.60 |
| Call Number: | F333.60/P899 |
| Contents: | An overview of the political economy of the agri-food system in Thailand -- Dynamics of the global capitalist agri-food system -- Hegemony in the agri-food system in Thailand -- Counter-hegemony and co-optation of oppositions in the agri-food system in Thailand -- The sustainable agriculture movement in Thailand -- The land reform movement in Thailand -- Conclusion and reflections. |