Biological Economies

Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers

Richard Le Heron, Hugh Campbell, Nick Lewis , Michael Carolan

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Routledge
04 February 2016

Agriculture & related industries; Economic geography; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

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 agriculture; and calls for more ‘enactive’, performative research approaches.

This volume describes the genealogy of such approaches, drawing on the reflective insights of more than five years of international engagement and research. It demonstrates the kinds of new work being generated under these approaches and provides a means for exploring how they should be all understood as part of the same broader need to review theory and methods in the study of food, agriculture, rural development and economic geography. This radical collective approach is elaborated as the Biological Economies approach. The authors break out from traditional categories of analysis, reconceptualising materialities, and reframing economic assemblages as biological economies, based on the notion of all research being enactive or performative.

Edited by: Richard Le Heron, Hugh Campbell, Nick Lewis, Michael Carolan, Terry Marsden
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781138843011
ISBN 10: 1138843016
Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 04 February 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Le Heron is Professor of Geography, School of Environment, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Hugh Campbell is Chair of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work, University of Otago, New Zealand. Nick Lewis is Associate Professor in Geography, School of Environment, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Michael Carolan is Chair of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA.

Reviews for Biological Economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers

If we are what we eat, then who do we become when we choose to eat differently? This brilliant book offers inspiring answers to this important question. It ranges far beyond the familiar criticisms of processed food, fast food and chemical-intensive farming. It presents arguments for, and examples of, new and better ways to embed food in our material and moral lives. - Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University Manchester, UK, and University of Wollongong, Australia.