POLS 196 Lecture 9: Food Regimes
19 Feb 2020
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Capital accumulation in agriculture constitutes global power arrangements expressed through patterns of food circulation: fundamental questions: Three distinct periods: (1) pre-wwi (2) 1940s to 1970s (3) 1980s to present: breaks between periods were results of changes in capitalism, each regime aligns with a set of geopolitical relations. First food regime, pre-wwi: culmination of colonialism and british colonial power, rise of nation states, premised on: Property accumulation and capitalist modes of production. Neo-mercantilism: featured european imports from settler states and import of european manufactured, favored imperial international relations with hierarchical features goods by the settler states. Overall favoring britain: settler colonial states began setting up their own institutions, remade the division of labor worldwide, eventually broke down because of:
