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What is agriculture for? : archetypes for future food systems / Paul B. Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Paul B., 1951- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural innovations.
- Comparative agriculture.
- Agriculture and state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- 'What Is Agriculture For?' describes four contrasting rationales for technical and policy change in agriculture and food systems. Technological Modernization applies an ethic common to every sector in the industrial economy: production should seek greater efficiencies in order to lower consumer costs and secure adequate supply but should not do so in ways that harm third parties or the environment. Sustainable Intensification emphasizes future challenges to the global food supply, and Rural Resilience places special value on the social role of farmers and other producers. Urban Agriculture highlights cities' growing vulnerability to rurally based supply chains. Each perspective leads to distinct policy goals and suggests different priorities for technical innovation. At the same time, the argument for any particular innovation may draw on two of more of these archetypal rationales.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Purpose of This Book
- What Is Agriculture For?
- Some Brief Terminological Remarks
- How Philosophers Do Ethics
- Ethical Theory
- The Plan of the Book
- 1 Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems
- Food Infrastructure
- Food Infrastructure and the Philosophy of Technology
- The Archetypes: A Preliminary Overview
- Technological Modernization
- Sustainable Intensification
- Rural Resilience
- Urban Agriculture
- Infrastructure, Ethics, and Archetypes
- The Future of Food
- Technology, Archetypes, and Future Food Infrastructure
- 2 Archetypes, Imaginaries, and the Philosophy of Technology
- Methods? We Don't Need No Stinking Methods!
- Archetypes
- Social Theory and Its Discontents
- The Imaginary
- The Social Imaginary
- Sociotechnical Imaginaries
- The Philosophy of Technology
- Postphenomenology and Philosophy of Technology
- Media, Infrastructure, and the Philosophy of Technology
- But What Does It All Mean?
- 3 Technological Modernization and Industrial Agriculture
- Technological Modernization: A Recap
- Modernity and the Rationalization of Society: A Perfunctory Telling
- Modernization as Narrative
- Modernity, Industrialization, and the Rationalization of Food and Agriculture
- Industrializing Food Systems in the Twentieth Century
- Technological Modernization and Its Ideological Forms
- A Dominant Imaginary
- Seeing Like a Philosopher
- 4 Science and Sustainable Intensification
- Agricultural Science and the Farm Crisis
- Sustainable Intensification: Some Basics
- Sustainable Intensification: The Birth of an Archetype
- Sustainable Intensification: A Memoir
- The Ethics of Sustainable Intensification
- Sustainable Intensification as the Top Priority for Innovation.
- Expanding the Idea, Creating an Imaginary
- The Sustainability in Sustainable Intensification
- Productionism and Intensification
- Sustainable Intensification and Climate Ethics
- Sustainable Intensification and the Philosophy of Technology
- Coda: A Contested Vision of the Future
- 5 Rural Resilience and the Food Movement
- The Food Movement
- Constructing a Movement: Organic Food and Health
- Constructing a Movement: Agricultural Fundamentalism
- Constructing a Movement: Agriculture and Environment
- Constructing a Movement: Farming and Social Justice
- Rural Resilience Takes Shape, the Food Movement Gathers Steam
- Smallholders in Less Industrialized Regions
- But Is There Really a Food Movement?
- Battling Archetypes
- A Vague and Ambivalent Archetype?
- 6 Urban Agriculture: The Food Movement Moves On
- A Unified Archetype?
- Feeding Cities in the Twenty-first Century
- Urban Food Policy and the Narrative of Food Security
- Urban Agriculture as Food Security
- Food Security Goes Vertical
- Growing on the Margins toward Food Sovereignty
- Urban Farms as Sites of Resistance and Emancipation
- Tensions in the Urban Agriculture Imaginary
- A Weak and Still Emergent Archetype?
- 7 Gaps, Overlaps, and the Political Ecology of Food Systems
- A Few Preliminaries
- Obvious Overlaps
- Gap #1: Animals
- Gap #2: Organic Farming
- Gap #3: Identity, Race, and Social Justice
- The Rurality Overlap
- Sustainability Overlaps
- Philosophical Overlaps as Political Opportunity
- A Concluding Transition
- 8 Deep Agrarianism
- Our Story So Far
- A Look Backward
- Back to the Future
- Revisiting the Archetypes
- Back to the Future Part II
- Another Agrarianism: Wendell Berry
- A Final Agrarianism, a Little Less Deep
- Back to the Future Part III
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4.
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 6, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-762578-9
- 0-19-762576-2
- 0-19-762577-0
- OCLC:
- 1522720206
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