| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Culture, place, and nature : studies in anthropology and environment
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Culture, place, and nature.
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| Summary |
This first sustained ethnographic study of organic agriculture outside the United States traces its meanings, practices, and politics in two nations typically considered worlds apart: Latvia and Costa Rica. Situated on the frontiers of the European Union and the United States, these geopolitically and economically in-between places illustrate ways that international treaties have created contradictory pressures for organic farmers. Organic farmers in both countries build multispecies networks of biological and social diversity and create spaces of sovereignty within state and suprastate governance bodies. Organic associations in Central America and Eastern Europe face parallel challenges in balancing multiple identities as social movements, market sectors, and NGOs while finding their place in regions and nations reshaped by world events. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-249) and index. |
| Contents |
Normal and exceptional sovereignties -- "We will simply count the votes" -- Placing the landscape -- Networking diversities -- Cacophonous harmonies -- Between conventionalizations -- Nested (in)justices. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Organic farming -- Commerce -- Latvia.
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Organic farming. |
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Commerce. |
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Latvia. |
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Organic farming -- Commerce -- Costa Rica.
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Costa Rica. |
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Produce trade.
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Produce trade. |
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Free trade.
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Free trade. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aistara, Guntra A. Organic sovereignties. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018] 9780295743103 (DLC) 2017048937 |
| ISBN |
9780295743127 (electronic book) |
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0295743123 (electronic book) |
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9780295743103 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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0295743107 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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9780295743110 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0295743115 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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