GGR329H1 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Canada, Food Sovereignty, Capitalism
12 Oct 2018
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Ggr329 introductory lecture: introductions, course overview, geographies of the global food system. What are some of the key problems evident in the global food system: health problems, environmental degradation, animal welfare, labour injustice. Being critical through food studies: questioning whether arguments are based on evidence, questioning dominant ideologies and discourses, questioning power dynamics and examining structural issues, considering possibilities for social change. The food studies landscape: political economy, social and cultural perspectives, environmental approaches, health approaches. The second great food revolution: capitalism takes over agriculture, since the second world war. January 5, 2018: externalizing of social/environmental (or socio-ecological ) costs, capitalism has a foothold in agriculture, role of family farms in north america. Industrialization of agriculture mechanization, chemicalization, biological manipulations, irrigation, increase in size & role of migrant workers: corporations controlling from the outside. Capitalist production: m c m" or lp m c p c" m" mp. Small farmers are not peasants in the traditional sense.
