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This introduction situates key themesfound in papers given at a recent workshop on thechanging material practices, meanings, and regulationof US organic food production. The context is theemergence of an international bio-politics ofagriculture and food and, more particularly in the US,the contradictions of sustainable agriculturemovements catalyzed by the rapid scaling up of organicagriculture from a niche activity to nascentindustry.
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Goodman, D. Organic and conventional agriculture: Materializing discourse and agro-ecological managerialism. Agriculture and Human Values 17, 215–219 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007650924982
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