Food Price Inflation as Redistribution: Towards a New Analysis of Corporate Power in the World Food System

Baines, Joseph

doi:10.1080/13563467.2013.768611

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“…Obviously, these eating practices require that certain key ingredients, particularly meat, are relatively cheap. According to the Economist Food price index, however, the two historic lows of world food prices were in early 1960s and the turn of the millennium (Baines ). Cheap food clearly predates the development of many of the eating practices outlined above and the wider turn towards neoliberalism.…”

Section: The Normalisation Of Bingeing and The Temporal Disorganisatimentioning

confidence: 99%

Disordered eating and the contradictions of neoliberal governance

Pirie

2016

Sociology Health & Illness

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The last decade has seen the development of an important literature on the contradictions between neoliberal norms of corporal citizenship and the forms of consumption that market-based food systems promote. This paper seeks to contribute to the literature by exploring the relationship between these contradictions and the increased prevalence of particular eating disorders (binge eating disorder (BED) and bulimia nervosa). Within contemporary neoliberal food systems bingeing is increasingly normalised and consumption temporally disorganised. At the same time, neoliberal public health policy, and the wider 'health' entertainment media it legitimates, focuses on the promotion of 'correct' forms of consumer agency. Individuals who fail to manage consumption 'appropriately' are stigmatised. The growth of bulimia and BED can be related to the contradictory pressures that the food system and regime of corporal governance place on individuals. The paper also seeks to explore how the increased medicalisation and biomedicalisation of eating since the 1980s fits within a broader neoliberal governance strategy. By medicalising key social problems the neoliberal state depoliticises these issues. Medicalisation and biomedicalisation obscure the role of capitalism in generating these problems and encourage a focus on individual dysfunction.

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Section: The Normalisation Of Bingeing and The Temporal Disorganisatimentioning

confidence: 99%

Disordered eating and the contradictions of neoliberal governance

Pirie

2016

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…These respective studies by Brennan (2013), Baines (2014), andHager (2014), as well as those of others (Cochrane, 2011;Park & Doucette, 2016;Suhail & Phillips, 2012), use Nitzan and Bichler's theorisation of capitalisation to understand capital accumulation as a forward-looking power process. Capitalisation, according to Nitzan and Bichler, is the 'mechanism through which capitalist power is commodified, structured and restructured' (Nitzan & Bichler, 2009, p. 18).…”

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Is Hollywood a Risky Business? A Political Economic Analysis of Risk and Creativity

McMahon

2018

New Political Economy

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This paper seeks to explain why Hollywood's dominant firms are narrowing the scope of creativity in the contemporary period . The largest distributors have sought to prevent the art of filmmaking and its related social relations from becoming financial risks in the pursuit of profit. Major filmed entertainment, my term for the six largest distributors, must discount expected future earnings to present prices with the forward-looking logic of capitalisation; and uncertainty about where creativity in cinema is going can produce financial uncertainty about the future earning potential of new film projects. Conversely, a degree of confidence in the expected future earnings of Hollywood cinema can increase when the art of filmmaking and broader social world of mass culture are ordered by capitalist power [Nitzan, J. and Bichler, S., 2009. Capital as power: a study of order and creorder. New York: Routledge]. For the period of 1980-2015, major filmed entertainment lowered its risk relative to the period before, 1960-79. This historical process of risk reduction is the effect of major filmed entertainment making the wide-release strategy (a.k.a., saturation booking) more predictable through an aggressive implementation of the blockbuster style and the high concept standard.

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“…This has facilitated land and water concentration by large transnational companies and local elites operating in the agribusiness sector. Their strategy of horizontal and vertical integration within the agro-export chain has increased their power to control flows of goods and finance around the world (Baines, 2014;Burch & Lawrence, 2009;Carolan, 2012;Fuchs, Kalfagianni, & Arentsen, 2009;McMichael, 2009;Murphy, 2008).…”

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Virtual water trade and the contestation of hydrosocial territories

Vos

Hinojosa

2016

Water International

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Growing trade in virtual water -the water used to produce exported products from agriculture and mining sectors -affects local communities and the environment, and transforms hydrosocial territories. National and international water regulations reshape communities' hydrosocial territories by changing water governance structures to favour export commodity sectors, often inducing strong contestation from local communities. Transnational companies formulate and enforce global water governance arrangements oriented toward strengthening export production chains, often through asymmetrical relationships with local groups in waterexport regions. These arrangements compromise political representation and water security for both local communities and companies.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Food Price Inflation as Redistribution: Towards a New Analysis of Corporate Power in the World Food System

Cited by 17 publications

References 16 publications

Disordered eating and the contradictions of neoliberal governance

Disordered eating and the contradictions of neoliberal governance

Is Hollywood a Risky Business? A Political Economic Analysis of Risk and Creativity

Virtual water trade and the contestation of hydrosocial territories

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