The contradictions of neoliberal agri-food : corporations, resistance, and disasters in Japan /

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Author / Creator:Sekine, Kae, author.
Imprint:Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2016.
©2016
Description:vii, 240 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Rural studies series, sponsored by the Rural Sociological Society ; volume four
Rural studies series (Morgantown, W.V.) ; v. 4.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10812705
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Other authors / contributors:Bonanno, Alessandro, author.
ISBN:9781943665198
1943665192
9781943665211
1943665214
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism. They also examine related changes that have occurred after the triple disaster of March 2011 (the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor), noting that reconstruction policy has favored deregulation and the reduction of social welfare. Sekine and Bonanno stress the incompatibility of the requirements of neoliberalism with the structural and cultural conditions of Japanese agri-food. Local farmers' and fishermen's emphasis on community collective management of natural resources, they argue, clashes with neoliberalism's focus on individualism and competitiveness. The authors conclude by pointing out the resulting fundamental contradiction: The lack of recognition of this incompatibility allows the continuous implementation of market solutions to problems that originate in these very market mechanisms"--

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