The Neoliberal Food Regime: Neoregulation and the New Division of Labor in North America

Autor/inn/en	Pechlaner, Gabriela; Otero, Gerardo
Titel	The Neoliberal Food Regime: Neoregulation and the New Division of Labor in North America
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 75 (2010) 2, S.179-208 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
DOI	10.1111/j.1549-0831.2009.00006.x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Agricultural Production; Labor; Developed Nations; Political Attitudes; Food; Agribusiness; Developing Nations; Comparative Analysis; International Trade; Theories; Case Studies; Policy Analysis; Public Policy; Resistance (Psychology); Agricultural Occupations; Rural Economics; Canada; Mexico; North America; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Lebensmittel; Agrarindustrie; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen; Theory; Theorie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Politikfeldanalyse; Öffentliche Ordnung; Resistenz; Occupation; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Kanada; Mexiko; Nordamerika; USA
Abstract	We undertake a comparative investigation of how neoliberal restructuring characterizes the third food regime in the three North American countries. By contrasting the experience of the two developed countries of the United States and Canada with that of the developing country of Mexico, we shine some empirical light on the differential impact of neoliberal regulatory restructuring on the division of labor in agriculture within the North American Free Trade Agreement region. In particular, we investigate these countries' agricultural production markets, trade, and food vulnerability--with an emphasis on Mexico--as analytical points for comparing and contrasting their experience with this neoliberal restructuring. We start with a synthesis of food-regime theory and outline the key features of what we call the "neoliberal food regime." We then discuss our case-study countries in terms of food vulnerability and resistance in Mexico, their differential relationships to trade liberalization, and what these trends might mean for the evolution of the neoliberal food regime. We conclude that, while dominant trends are ominous, there is room for an alternative trajectory and consequent reshaping of the emerging regime: sufficient bottom-up social resistance, primarily at the level of the nation-state, may yet produce an alternative trajectory. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10