Agrarian Dreams by Julie Guthman

Agrarian Dreams by Julie Guthman

In an era of escalating food politics, many believe organic farming to be the agrarian answer. In this first comprehensive study of organic farming in California, Julie Guthman casts doubt on the current wisdom about organic food and agriculture, at least as it has evolved in the Golden State. Refuting popular portrayals of organic agriculture as a small-scale family farm endeavor in opposition to "industrial" agriculture, Guthman explains how organic farming has replicated what it set out to oppose.

"Agrarian Dreams throws a cold shower of reality over the dream of organic agriculture in California, demonstrating all that is lost when organic farming goes industrialThis is a challenging book, and until we can answer the hard questions Julie Guthman poses, a genuinely sustainable agriculture will elude us." - Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire; "Agrarian Dreams puts organic agriculture in a broad intellectual, social, and theoretical context in a readable way. Nobody has written at this scale and scope about organics. This is an outstanding work." - Sally K. Fairfax, University of California, Berkeley"

Julie Guthman is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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ISBN 13	9780520240957
ISBN 10	0520240952
Title	Agrarian Dreams
Author	Julie Guthman
Series	California Studies In Critical Human Geography
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of California Press
Year published	2004-08-04
Number of pages	264
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