Review of Philip McMichael's Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions

Otero, Gerardo

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“…This contribution has explored the everday dynamics of the contemporary food regime through a fieldwork‐based case study of booming maize cultivation in Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka, South India. Through this case, I have been seeking to contribute to recent scholarship that calls for reworking food regime analysis to be able to account for cases below the “global” level, including regional, national, and even local cases (McMichael, ; Otero, ; Otero, Pechlaner, & Gürcan, ; Rioux, ; Wang, ). Taking the industrial grain‐oilseed‐livestock complex (Weis, , ) as a key site of ongoing food regime restructuring, I have argued for seeing the expansion of maize as an apt example of the integration of new crops and regions, or expansion of, the contemporary food regime.…”

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“…Debate has included criticism of much existing food regime literature for operating with too broad and “top‐down” analytics in part a consequence of its “global” orientation to capital accumulation. Indeed, there is a consensus of sorts calling for reworking the food regime approach to be able to account for cases at the regional, national, or local scale (Jakobsen, , ; McMichael, ; Otero, ; Otero, Pechlaner & Gürcan, 2013; Rioux, ; Wang, ). These limitations to the food regime approach have, in Bernstein's () view, revealed “the need for it to connect with other currents of agrarian political economy” (p. 643).…”

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The maize frontier in rural South India: Exploring the everyday dynamics of the contemporary food regime

Jakobsen

2019

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This contribution explores how new regions and crops are integrated in the contemporary food regime through a fieldwork‐based approach to maize cultivation in rural Karnataka, South India. As an intrinsic part of the industrial grain–oilseed–livestock complex, maize is an important component of the contemporary food regime. I argue that the expansion of maize at the village level follows commodity frontier dynamics, located at the conjuncture of processes “from above” pushing the industrial grain–oilseed–complex forward and processes “from below” that integrate maize in everyday livelihoods. Focusing on how villagers make use of maize in ways that cross, but simultaneously are differentiated along, lines of class and caste, this article seeks to contribute to our understanding of the everyday dynamics of contemporary food regime.

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The maize frontier in rural South India: Exploring the everyday dynamics of the contemporary food regime

Jakobsen

2019

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…Broadly valued for its ability to explore 'the dialectical relationship existing between place-specific agricultural production and world market processes of circulation' (Rioux 2017, 1), food regime analysis has nevertheless focused predominantly on North/South dynamics, including the crucial role of Western corporate power and interests to institutional orders such as the GATT and WTO as key 'organizing principles' in giving shape to the contemporary 'corporate food regime' (McMichael 2005(McMichael , 2009). Yet recently scholars working within this approach have started to call for the need to rework it in order to be able to incorporate emerging reorientations in the global political economy towards multipolarity, including rethinking the very notion of Along these lines, we find recent attempts to depart from the 'relative scalar fixity' (Rioux 2017, 1) inherent to the 'global' orientation of most existing food regime literature in order to explore more detailed empirical cases at lower scales of analysis (Jakobsen 2018 a, b;Otero 2016;Otero et al 2013). Relevant to our purposes, we find calls for 'regional food regime analysis' (McMichael 2013; Wang 2018) for studying emerging dynamics beneath the global scale.…”

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Geographies of meatification: an emerging Asian meat complex

Jakobsen

Hansen

2019

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The 'meatification' (Weis, 2013) of human diets has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in recent years, along with its many impacts. While the rapidly expanding meatification in many Asian countries has been noted, the geographies of these processes have been left largely unexplored. This paper maps the changing geographies of meat with special focus on Southeast Asia. We use Tony Weis' concept of 'the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex' to analyse how forms of systemic meatification are taking place in Asia. We map and analyse regional trends in meat production and consumption, as well as trade patterns in meat products and dominant feed crops. We argue that the regional meat complex emerges through increasingly regional development processes and capital, as well as through new South-South connections. The geographies of meatification in Southeast Asia thus constitute an empirical manifestation of the emerging multipolarity of the global food regime.

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“…Otero (2016) señala que el trabajo de Philip McMichael postula que el análisis del "régimen alimentario" está abierto al escrutinio y la extensión por parte de otros académicos. En su propia revisión se pregunta Otero por la reserva que tuvo McMichael en llamar al tercer régimen como "neoliberal" en vez de "financiero", puesto que los mecanismos por los cuales surgen son políticos, la globalización neoliberal que invierte la lógica del segundo régimen dejando entrever que ahora los Estados sirven a los mercados globales.…”

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Prácticas alimentarias y vida cotidiana de mujeres en Tuxtla Gutiérrez: caso Banco de Alimentos de México

Gutiérrez-Hernández

Ocaña

2021

Estudios Sociales

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Objetivo: analizar la configuración cotidiana de las prácticas alimentarias de mujeres madres de familia en condición de vulnerabilidad en Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, como respuesta local en su relación con el Banco de Alimentos de México. Metodología: con un enfoque cualitativo se realizaron talleres (participativos y de capacitación) y entrevistas (semiestructuradas y a profundidad) con mujeres madres de familia calificadas con índices de marginación y pobreza extrema, para indagar sobre sus prácticas alimentarias en su relación con el Banco de Alimentos de México. Resultados: las mujeres expresaron las formas en las cuales perciben sus problemas cotidianos relacionados con la alimentación, así como las prácticas alimentarias que se forman como nuevos hábitos para conservar el acceso a cierto tipo de alimentos y mitigar así el hambre y la inseguridad alimentaria. Limitaciones: se describen los obstáculos y dificultades que hubo durante el desarrollo de la investigación. Conclusiones: en materia de las tácticas alimentarias, las mujeres madres de familia de Tuxtla Gutiérrez, en condición de vulnerabilidad con marginación y pobreza, recurren al consumo de las despensas del Banco de Alimentos de México porque es la vía de acceso a ciertos alimentos de los que pueden hacer uso para consumo o para intercambiarlos por otros productos a través de la reventa. Las prácticas aquí encontradas forman parte de una serie de tácticas elaboradas a partir de la inaccesibilidad de los alimentos.

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Review of Philip McMichael's Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions

Cited by 7 publications

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The maize frontier in rural South India: Exploring the everyday dynamics of the contemporary food regime

The maize frontier in rural South India: Exploring the everyday dynamics of the contemporary food regime

Geographies of meatification: an emerging Asian meat complex

Prácticas alimentarias y vida cotidiana de mujeres en Tuxtla Gutiérrez: caso Banco de Alimentos de México

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