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Tables of Contents for Restructuring Global and Regional Agricultures
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Figures and tables
viii
Notes on contributors
xi
Foreword
xvii
PART I: THE CONTEMPORARY DYNAMICS OF GLOBAL AGRI-FOOD RELATIONS
Virtual capitalism and agri-food restructuring
3
20
Philip McMichael
Switzerland's billabong? Brand management in the global food system and Nestle Australia
23
18
Bill Pritchard
An apple a day: Renegotiating concepts, revisiting context in New Zealand's pipfruit industry
41
20
Megan McKenna
Michael Roche
Richard Le Heron
New Zealand's organic food exports: Current interpretations and new directions in research
61
14
Hugh Campbell
Brad Coombes
The organic manifesto: Organic agriculture in the world food system
75
12
Andy Monk
An end to Fordist food? Economic crisis and the fast food sector in Southeast Asia
87
26
David Burch
Jasper Goss
PART II: RESTRUCTURING WITHIN AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND AGRI-FOOD SYSTEMS
Capitalism, the state and Kai Moana: Maori, the New Zealand fishing industry and restructuring
113
18
Khyla Russell
Hugh Campbell
Economic restructuring and neo-liberalism in Australian rural adjustment policy
131
14
Vaughan Higgins
The restructuring of industry-based agricultural training in New Zealand
145
18
Ruth Schick
Ruth Liepins
Discourses of community and dairy company amalgamations in Taranaki, New Zealand
163
14
Carolyn Morris
PART III: AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
Markets as politics: The case of the meat export industry of New Zealand
177
12
Bruce Macdonald Curtis
Food safety and the New Zealand dairy industry: The politics of Stolle hyperimmune milk
189
14
Christina I. Baldwin
Fertiliser and sustainable land management in pastoral farming, Northland
203
18
Greg Blunden
Ben Bradshaw
Doing good, doing harm? Public debate about Rabbit Calicivirus Disease in New Zealand
221
16
Gerard Fitzgerald
Roger Wilkinson
Hiring labour for sugar harvesting: Farmers, farm workers and sub-contractors
237
18
Michael Finemore
Jim McAllister
PART IV: THEORISING KEY CONCEPTS IN AGRI-FOOD RESEARCH
`Feed the man meat': Gendered food and theories of consumption
255
20
Stewart Lockie
Lyn Collie
Contract farming in the New Zealand wine industry: An example of real subsumption
275
14
Jason Mabbett
Ian Carter
An Action Learning approach to grower-focussed change: Research among cotton producers in Queensland
289
18
Geoffrey Lawrence
Melissa Meyers
Stewart Lockie
Richard Clark
The discourse of sustainable development and the Australian sugar industry: A preliminary analysis
307
10
David Grasby
Index
317