Making Markets in Australian Agriculture Shifting Knowledge, Identities, Values, and the Emergence of Corporate Power /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: O'Keeffe, Patrick (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Agricultural economics.; Public policy.; Economic policy.; Agricultural Economics.; Public Policy.; Economic Policy.; R & D/Technology Policy.

This book provides a genealogical study of Australian agricultural restructuring, focusing on the case study of wheat export market deregulation. This policy shift was implemented in 2008, ending 60 years of statutory wheat marketing. At the time, policy makers claimed that market liberalisation wou...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Making Markets: Agricultural restructuring in Australia
• 2. Governmentality as a lens for analysing agricultural restructuring in Australia
• 3. Creating a reality of markets, firms and consumers
• 4. Productivism, financialisation and the 'good farmer': Constructing a rational, governable farming sector
• 5. Acting on society: Quantification, technologies of performance and erasure of 'the social'
• 6. Freedom and choice? Legitimising concentration in deregulated agricultural markets
• 7. Feeding the world or turning a profit? How transnational agribusiness firms use discourse to shape their external environments
• 8. Constructing a corporate society: Shaping knowledge, identities and values to facilitate the emergence of corporate power.