Syllabus

Books:

 

E. Millstone and T. Lang 2008. The Atlas of Food – Who Eats What, Where, and Why. Earthscan

D. K. Fitzgerald 2003. Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture, Yale University 2003 (paperback version).

 

Articles:

All articles in the syllabus are accessible online to UiO students, but you need to use a computer which is on the UiO network. If you are off campus, please read how to log on here


Altieri M. A. & Toledo V. M (2011) "The agroecological revolution in Latin America: rescuing nature, ensuring food sovereignty and empowering peasants", The Journal of Peasant Studies, 38:3, 587-612, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03066150.2011.582947

Appadurai A. (2001) Deep Democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics. Environment and Urbanization.2001.13/2/23: http://eau.sagepub.com/content/13/2/23.full.pdf+html

Banik, D. (2010) “Governing a Giant: The Limits of Judicial Activism on Hunger in India, Journal of Asian Public Policy 3(3): 263-280. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17516234.2010.536343#.Uoyzc3bKwaU

Banik, D. (2011) “Growth and Hunger in India”, Journal of Democracy, 22 (3): 90-104. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v022/22.3.banik.html

Dauvergne, P. and & Neville, K. (2010) "Forests, food, and fuel in the tropics: the uneven social and ecological consequences of the emerging political economy of biofuels", The Journal of Peasant Studies, 37:4, 631-660 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03066150.2010.512451

Diamond (2002) on the origin of agriculture: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v418/n6898/full/nature01019.html

Diamond and Bellwood (2003) on the farming/language dispersal hypothesis: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/300/5619/597.full

Donohue and Denham (2010) refutes the farming/language dispersal hypothesis, but is it dead?: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/650991

Glenn Davis Stone. The anthropology of Genetically Modified Crops. http://artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/research/stone/stone-annualreview-2010.pdf

Grau, Ricardo H. and Mitchell Aide:  Globalization and Land-Use Transitions in Latin America. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art16/

Guthman Juli, Melanie Du Puis (2006) Embodying Neoliberalism: Economy, culture and the politics of fat. Environment and planning D: Society and Space. 2006 vol. 24:427-448. http://www.envplan.com/epd/fulltext/d24/d3904.pdf

Harlan (1975) on the threats to our agricultural heritage: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1740174?seq=1

Hastings, Gerard (2012): Why corporate power is a public health priority BMJ 2012;345: 1-5 http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e5124.pdf%2Bhtml

Humphrey, John (2007). The Supermarket revolution in developing countries: tidal wave or tough competitive struggle? Journal of Economic Geography 7, 433-450: http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/4/433.full.pdf+html

Jason W. Moore: Capitalism as World-Ecology: Braudel and Marx on Environmental History: http://oae.sagepub.com/content/16/4/514.short

Jack Goody: Gordon Childe, the Urban Revolution, and the Haute Cuisine: An Anthropo-archaeological View of Modern History: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=440242

Moddie R. Et.al. (2013) Profits and pandemics: prevention of harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and drink industries. LANCET 2013:381:670-679: http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673612620893.pdf?id=8b69abadd6dadf97:-e541ec:1427b029449:-1a221385046094462

Peter Newell: Bio-Hegemony: The Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology in Argentina. http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022216X08005105

Saxena, N.C. (2012) “Hunger and Malnutrition in India”, IDS Bulletin 43(S1): 8-14. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2012.00341.x/pdf

Westengen et al. (2013) on the safeguarding of our agricultural heritage: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0064146

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