Protest, politics and produce: a resource account of anti-genetically modified organism activism

McCauley, Darren

doi:10.1080/13549839.2013.818955

Cited by 5 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 33 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…in the form of complaining (Soscia, 2007). In the GM food markets, consumers’ active resistance toward GM has included, for instance, putting public pressure on retailers and manufacturers to exclude GM foods from their assortments or to adopt voluntary GM-labeling (Lucht, 2015; McCauley, 2015; Russell et al , 2016). Consumers have also taken initiatives to establish stricter legislation regarding GM foods (Bain and Dandachi, 2014).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Different shades of displeasure

Immonen¹,

Luomala

2017

BFJ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the differential consequences of fear and anger for consumers’ responses to genetically modified (GM) foods, and to identify substantive concerns that differentiate consumers’ negative emotional responses into fear and anger in the GM food context. Design/methodology/approach With survey data obtained from university students (n=267), structural equation modeling is used to assess relationships between four types of consumer concerns about the genetic modification of food, fear and anger, and two types of consumer responses to GM food products. Findings Intentions to make complaints about GM foods are increased by anger, but reduced by fear. Readiness to use GM foods is reduced by fear, but not by anger. Fear is strengthened by health-related concerns, while anger is strengthened by market-related concerns associated with the genetic modification of food. Research limitations/implications The generalizability of the findings is limited by the student sample. The study confirms the applicability of cognitive appraisal theories of emotion in the context of GM food consumption. The findings help GM food marketers and societal opinion influencers to identify consumers’ concerns that need to be addressed to manage consumers’ antagonistic or avoiding emotion-driven responses to GM foods. Originality/value This study is the first to show that discrete emotions of the same negative valence have distinct effects on consumer acceptance of GM foods, and to distinguish substantive concerns that in particular foster fear and anger in the GM food context.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Different shades of displeasure

Immonen¹,

Luomala

2017

BFJ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In this vein, social movements attempt to strategically manipulate, subvert and resignify places in beneficial ways. Franquemanque (2007) and McCauley (2011McCauley ( , 2013 demonstrate how French anti-GMO activists reframed a proposed military base in 1971, Larzac, as both a physical site and emblem for a wide range of anti-globalization protests ever since. Heaney and Rojas (2006) explore how different organizations in the anti-Iraq War movement in North Carolina fought over the multiple meanings of place in competing strategic efforts to frame social movement activity.…”

Section: Moving Beyond Scale Framingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing Injustice in Green Criminology: Activism, Social Movements and Geography

McCauley¹

2017

Environmental Criminology

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Injustice is perceived, experienced and articulated. Social movements, and their constitutive parts, frame and re-frame these senses of injustice. Two often-overlapping accounts of social movements are in focus in this chapter. Human geography has been flooded with movement-based analyses of environmental justice (EJ). Sociology (more appropriately political sociology) has provided insight into social movements in the form of 'contentious politics' (CP). Building on both sets of literature, this chapter seeks to advance thought in human geography through a detailed exploration of master and collective action framing. It argues, firstly, that framing analysis challenges activist researchers to retain 'spatial constructs' as their central focus, rather than discourse. It calls, secondly, for us to unbind injustice as much as justice in our analysis of framing. And lastly, it demands a multi-spatial perspective on framing beyond simply scalar accounts.

show abstract

“…Much has been made of the relative success of opposition movements against GMO agriculture (Gupta 2015;Herring 2008;Kwiecinski 2009;McCauley 2015;Pigeon and Letourneau 2014;Purdue 2000;Schurman 2004;Schurman and Munro 2010). Indeed, although agricultural biotechnology has made major inroads in the productivity of key volume crops such as corn, cotton, soy and canola, the GMO food economy remains very circumscribed, limited to only two dozen countries (James 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrating technonatures: discourses of biotechnology in a neoliberal era

Carroll

2018

Journal of Political Ecology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article considers the role played by discourses of nature in structuring the cultural politics of anti-GMO activism. It argues that such discourses have been successful rhetorical tools for activists because they mobilize widely resonant nature-culture dualisms that separate the natural and human worlds. However, these discourses hold dubious political implications. In valorizing the natural as a source of essential truth, natural purity discourses fail to challenge how naturalizations have been used to legitimize sexist, racist and colonial systems of injustice and oppression. Rather, they revitalize the discursive purchase of appeals to nature as a justification for the status quo, indirectly reinforcing existing power relations. Moreover, these discourses fail to challenge the critical though contingent reality of GMOs' location within the wider framework of neoliberal social relations. Fortunately, appeals to natural purity have not been the only effective strategy for opposing GMOs. Activist campaigns that directly target the political economic implications of GMOs within the context of neoliberalism have also had successes without resorting to appeals to the purity of nature. The successes of these campaigns suggest that while nature-culture dualisms remain politically effective normative groundings, concerns over equity, farmers' rights, and democracy retain potential as ideological terrains in the struggle for social justice.

show abstract

Protest, politics and produce: a resource account of anti-genetically modified organism activism

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

Different shades of displeasure

Different shades of displeasure

Framing Injustice in Green Criminology: Activism, Social Movements and Geography

Narrating technonatures: discourses of biotechnology in a neoliberal era

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About