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Author Sekine, Kae, author.

Title The contradictions of neoliberal agri-food : corporations, resistance, and disasters in Japan / Kae Sekine and Alessandro Bonanno.

Publication Info. Morgantown, West Virginia : West Virginia University Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 240 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Rural studies series, sponsored by the Rural Sociological Society ; volume four
Rural studies series (Morgantown, W.V.) ; v. 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism. They also examine related changes that have occurred after the triple disaster of March 2011 (the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor), noting that reconstruction policy has favored deregulation and the reduction of social welfare. Sekine and Bonanno stress the incompatibility of the requirements of neoliberalism with the structural and cultural conditions of Japanese agri-food. Local farmers' and fishermen's emphasis on community collective management of natural resources, they argue, clashes with neoliberalism's focus on individualism and competitiveness. The authors conclude by pointing out the resulting fundamental contradiction: The lack of recognition of this incompatibility allows the continuous implementation of market solutions to problems that originate in these very market mechanisms"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Neoliberalism -- Japan.
Neoliberalism.
Japan.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Japan.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
Food supply -- Political aspects -- Japan.
Food supply -- Political aspects.
Food supply.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sekine, Kae. Contradictions of neoliberal agri-food. Morgantown, West Virginia : West Virginia University Press, 2016 9781943665198 (DLC) 2016004896 (OCoLC)932387389
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