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

• Main Author: O'Keeffe, Patrick (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.