ANTB64H3 Chapter Notes -Foundation For Ancient Research And Mormon Studies, Agribusiness, North American Free Trade Agreement
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On the move for food: three women behind the tomato"s journey -deborah barndt. Up and own: frames the tomato"s journey and power relations on which the food syst. is built (varying interact"s b/w race, nation, class, and gender) + contrasting perspectives of globalization-from-above and globalization-from-below. G-f-a: the corp. view of multinat. that control the tomato"s transformat. G-f-b: the views of the women workers whose hands move it along its journey. *marissa (cashier at loblaws), irena (mexican farmworker who picks and packs tomatoes in. Ca), tomasa (picks tomatoes in mexico): all have in common the fact that they are forced to move to find work in the food syst. , as they struggle to feed their fam"s in increasingly hard times. Theoretical frames: an outside view: distancing (that is central to global food prod. ) Distance b/w production and consumpt. , distancing f/ nat. products and processes inherent in biotech. , processing, preservat. , and packaging.
