French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious AgeOxford University Press, 21/10/2004 - 288 من الصفحات From mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxieties about the perils hidden in an increasingly industrialized, internationalized food supply. These food fears have cast a shadow as long as Africa, where farmers struggle to meet European demand for the certifiably clean green bean. But the trade in fresh foods between Africa and Europe is hardly uniform. Britain and France still do business mostly with their former colonies, in ways that differ as dramatically as their national cuisines. The British buy their "baby veg" from industrial-scale farms, pre-packaged and pre-trimmed; the French, meanwhile, prefer their green beans naked, and produced by peasants. Managers and technologists coordinate the baby veg trade between Anglophone Africa and Britain, whereas an assortment of commercants and self-styled agro-entrepreneurs run the French bean trade. Globalization, then, has not erased cultural difference in the world of food and trade, but instead has stretched it to a transnational scale. French Beans and Food Scares explores the cultural economies of two "non-traditional" commodity trades between Africa and Europe--one anglophone, the other francophone--in order to show not only why they differ but also how both have felt the fall-out of the wealthy world's food scares. In a voyage that begins in the mid-19th century and ends in the early 21st, passing by way of Paris, London, Burkina Faso and Zambia, French Beans and Food Scares illuminates the daily work of exporters, importers and other invisible intermediaries in the global fresh food economy. These intermediaries' accounts provide a unique perspective on the practical and ethical challenges of globalized food trading in an anxious age. They also show how postcolonial ties shape not only different societies' geographies of food supply, but also their very ideas about what makes food good. |
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... practices, and did not get them. One result was that European food politics and policies in the post–mad cow era appeared, to many Americans, stranger than ever. Not even the British could be considered as allies when it came to ...
... practices, and did not get them. One result was that European food politics and policies in the post–mad cow era appeared, to many Americans, stranger than ever. Not even the British could be considered as allies when it came to ...
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... practice. The Zambian company's facilities must be spotless, he explains; its grounds groomed, its lower-level managers prepped. He will also arrange a tour of the housing, childcare, and clinics the company provides its workers ...
... practice. The Zambian company's facilities must be spotless, he explains; its grounds groomed, its lower-level managers prepped. He will also arrange a tour of the housing, childcare, and clinics the company provides its workers ...
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... practices, and social institutions, I hope to illuminate the relationship between culture and power in globalized food provisioning. More specifically, I want to show that the power to demand goodness in food—as defined by cultural ...
... practices, and social institutions, I hope to illuminate the relationship between culture and power in globalized food provisioning. More specifically, I want to show that the power to demand goodness in food—as defined by cultural ...
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... practices characterizing specific food commodity networks, but also the politics and policy debates surrounding food globalization more generally. Culture and Nature in Transnational Commodity Networks. T. his book's investigation of food ...
... practices characterizing specific food commodity networks, but also the politics and policy debates surrounding food globalization more generally. Culture and Nature in Transnational Commodity Networks. T. his book's investigation of food ...
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... practices, and social institutions shaping, and shaped by, relations between actors in the commodity network. It is culture that revolves around commerce, but encompasses many activities besides the basic negotiations and transactions ...
... practices, and social institutions shaping, and shaped by, relations between actors in the commodity network. It is culture that revolves around commerce, but encompasses many activities besides the basic negotiations and transactions ...
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The Making of Modern Food Provisioning | 33 |
Rural Development and Patronage | 61 |
Settler Colonialism and Corporate Paternalism | 93 |
Expertise and Friendship | 127 |
Brands and Standards | 167 |
Conclusion | 211 |
Notes | 223 |
Works Cited | 235 |
Index | 261 |
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