Alessandro Bonanno
Biographic Data
| ID | 238910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Bonanno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonanno |
| SIGNATURE | BONANNO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Houston State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2868-2798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Capitalism in the Interregnum: Reconstructed Social Democracy or Authoritarian Capitalism
This entry elaborates the changes in the structure and ideology of capitalism from postwar Keynesian capitalism, through the neoliberal era, to the current legitimacy crisis of the latter or the interregnum after the Great Recession, the ascendance of ethnoracial nationalism, the failed Trump coup, and the COVID‐19 crisis. The focus is primarily on the USA, the now threatened hegemon of the Keynesian and neoliberal regimes, with due attention to …
Geographical indications' prices and marketing margins: The role of group size, longevity and production decisions
Purpose Geographical indication (GI) labels aim to improving farmers' and processors' income. This article studies how characteristics related to GI groups and their reputation (e.g. the producer group size, longevity and production decisions) are related to prices at the origin, final (consumption) prices and marketing margins. Design/methodology/approach The authors use 8 years of annual data for the Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) GI mar…
The Financialization of Agriculture and Food in the Context of the Neoliberal Restructuring: Primary Characteristics and Basic Contradictions
Este artículo examina las dinámicas y características de del macro-proceso de financiarización de la agricultura y los alimentos. Hace referencia al rápido crecimiento del sector financiero y a la concomitante tendencia a la titulización de las actividades económicas, es decir al proceso que reduce todo el valor de la economía a instrumentos financieros. Una vez señalados los componentes básicos de la financiarización de la agroalimentación, este…
Too cool for farm to school? Analyzing the determinants of farm to school programming continuation
Measuring stocks of community wealth and their association with food systems efforts in rural and urban places
Sustainable community development relies on cumulative investments in a broad range of capital assets, yet little research sets forth comprehensive measures of their stocks or the relationships of capital assets to community outcomes. Building off conceptual frameworks for wealth creation, we develop a comprehensive set of indicators associated with stocks of community-based wealth at the county level. Including such indicators when evaluating co…
Contendiendo en la globalización. Los empresarios cafetaleros del Soconusco y la organización de las cadenas de producción locales y globales
Desde fines del siglo XIX, los empresarios cafetaleros de la región Soconusco en Chiapas, con el apoyo del Estado, establecieron vínculos de producción, transformación y distribución del producto con importadores y torrefactores estadounidenses y europeos. El propósito del artículo es examinar las estrategias y alianzas establecidas por estos empresarios, principalmente desde la década de 1990 del siglo XX, para hacer frente a la reestructuración…
Food labels and adult BMI in Italy – An unconditional quantile regression approach
Monopoly Capitalism
Monopoly capitalism refers to the postcompetitive phase of the development of capitalism. It consists of processes whereby the predominance of competitive markets is replaced by the predominance of monopoly markets. In theory, a monopoly refers to a market controlled by one single firm. Practically, it refers to a situation in which one or a few large companies control the entire market. The entry reviews the evolution of the debate on monopoly c…
Consumers’ acceptance and preferences for nutrition-modified and functional dairy products: A systematic review
The Contradictions of the Neoliberal Global Agri-Food System
That agriculture and food is a socially, politically, and economically important sector is difficult to deny. A country’s socio-economic and political stability, its well-being, economic growth, and national security all depend upon the existence of a viable agri-food industry. Equally important is that agri-food is one of the most globalized sectors and that its globalization and concomitant economic liberalization have engendered the production…
The Plant Protection Products (PPP) Sector in the European Union: A Special View on Herbicides
Globalization and Transnational Corporations
Reclaiming Food Security
State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Large-Scale Social Change
Nicaragua Before Now: Factory Work, Farming, and Fishing in a Low-wage Global Economy
Facial Disfigurement, Stigma, and Cancer: Interaction Between Patients and Members of Secondary Groups
This article probes the issue of stigma generated by the interaction of facially disfigured cancer patients with strangers and acquaintances (secondary groups). Now, patients with cancer of the face survive. As they survive, they spend significant portions of their lives dealing with stigma. Limited knowledge is available on the interaction processes leading to the creation of stigma for facially disfigured cancer patients. This article addresses…
Neo-liberal restructuring and the poultry industry in Mexico. The north moves south and the south moves north
Hazards of neoliberalism: Delayed electric power restoration after Hurricane Ike1
This case study explores how neoliberal policies shape the impacts of a natural disaster. We investigate the reactions to major damages to the electric power system and the restoration of power in the wake of Hurricane Ike, which devastated the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area in September 2008. We argue that the neoliberal policy agenda insured a minimalist approach to the crisis and generated dissatisfaction among many residents. The short-ter…
The Globalization of Food
Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution
Stories of Globalization: Transnational Corporations, Resistance, and the State
"Analyses transnational corporations, groups who resist them, and the primary context within which the relationship between transnational corporations and their opponents unfold: the state. Argues that globalization is a contested terrain in which the power of transnational corporations is affected by mounting opposition and internal contradictions"--Provided by publisher.
Stories of Globalization: Transnational Corporations, Resistance, and the State
The economic and social outcomes of mid-twentieth-century Fordist capitalism were characterized by a decrease in the significance of distance and a shift in the dynamic of time. This "time-space compression" is one of the defining components of contemporary globalization. In their latest collaboration, Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas Constance provide an in-depth analysis of the origins and nature of globalization using the context of the agro-foo…
Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization
Corporations and the State in the Global Era: The Case of Seaboard Farms and Texas
Employing the case of the expansion and regulation of hog confined animal feeding operations (CAFO) in Texas combined with the actions of the transnational agri-food corporation Seaboard Farms, Inc., this paper probes the relationship between the state and corporations in the global era. It specifically investigates the ability of the state to control agri-food corporations in a context in which the hyper-mobility of capital has increasingly allo…
Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry
From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food
Regulating the global fisheries: The World Wildlife Fund, Unilever, and the Marine Stewardship Council
Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution
Corporations and the State in the Global Era: The Case of Seaboard Farms and Texas
Employing the case of the expansion and regulation of hog confined animal feeding operations (CAFO) in Texas combined with the actions of the transnational agri-food corporation Seaboard Farms, Inc., this paper probes the relationship between the state and corporations in the global era. It specifically investigates the ability of the state to control agri-food corporations in a context in which the hyper-mobility of capital has increasingly allo…
Liberal democracy in the global era: Implications for the agro-food sector
Contested Terrain of the Global Fisheries: Dolphin-Safe' Tuna, The Panama Declaration, and the Marine Stewardship Council1
The globalization of socio-economic relations is a central topic of discussion in both the general literature on economy and society and in the area of food and agriculture. Many maintain that we are in a transition from one era, termed Fordism, to another, called Global Post-Fordism. We use the case of two fisheries eco-labeling programs to inform discussions regarding the emergence of stabilizing socio-economic mechanisms in the Global Post-For…
The crisis of representation: The limits of liberal democracy in the global era
Global contested terrain: The case of the tuna-dolphin controversy
To Farm or Not to Farm: Rural Dilemma in Russia and Ukraine
Employing primary data collected in the summer of 1991 in a representative survey of two farming areas in the territory of the republics of Russia and Ukraine, this study addresses the issue of the future involvement of collective and state-farm workers in private farming. Through the use of a LISREL model, it is argued that those who have been involved in small-scale private farming show no interest in expanding their farm operations or in buyin…
Global Agro-Food Corporations and the State: The Ferruzzi Case
The relationship between transnational corporations (TNCs) in the agro-food sector and the nation-state in the context of global post-Fordism is examined through a case study of recent events involving the Ferruzzi transnational corporation. TNCs have a complex and contradictory set of relations with the state that are affected by competition among TNCs, by TNCs' internal disagreements, and by the fragmented nature of the state. The state assists…
Science, Technology, and the Restructuring of Agriculture
Theories of the State: The Case of Land Reform in Italy, 1944-1961
This article examines the case of land reform in Italy from 1944 to 1961 in relation to the role of the State in capitalism. Through an analysis of recent debate on the capitalist State, it offers an investigation of the generation and outcomes of the process of land reform. It is important to note that the social pressure exerted by landless peasants and farm workers for the redistribution of land and the dissolution of the dominant social bloc …
The social creation of dependence, dependency ratios, and the elderly in the United States: A critical analysis
The Plant Protection Products (PPP) Sector in the European Union: A Special View on Herbicides
The restructuring of the agricultural and food system: Social and economic equity in the reshaping of the Agrarian Question and the Food Question
Changes, crisis, and restructuring in western Europe: The new dimensions of agriculture
Agricultural policies and the capitalist State
Hazards of neoliberalism: Delayed electric power restoration after Hurricane Ike1
This case study explores how neoliberal policies shape the impacts of a natural disaster. We investigate the reactions to major damages to the electric power system and the restoration of power in the wake of Hurricane Ike, which devastated the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area in September 2008. We argue that the neoliberal policy agenda insured a minimalist approach to the crisis and generated dissatisfaction among many residents. The short-ter…
Powers and Limits of Transnational Corporations: The Case of ADM
This analysis employs the case of lysine price fixing involving the food-processing transnational corporation (TNC) Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Asian-based firms. In an 'economy and society' conceptual framework grounded in the sociology of agriculture and food, we investigate the powers and limits of TNCs in the global era. We argue that TNCs maintain significant powers which allow them to avoid the laws and regulations of nation-states. AD…
The Tuna-Dolphin Controversy
This study uses the case of the tuna-dolphin controversy to inform discussions in the sociology of agriculture regarding global post-Fordism in general and the new mode of regulation in particular. Global post-Fordism is defined as the global economic restructuring in progress and the associated emergence of transnational corporations (TNCs) and transnational-States. Mode of regulation is the historically specific set of social norms that are ins…
Some reflections on Eastern European agriculture an introductory essay to the special issue on “agriculture in Eastern Europe”
The agro-food sector and the transnational state
Measuring stocks of community wealth and their association with food systems efforts in rural and urban places
Sustainable community development relies on cumulative investments in a broad range of capital assets, yet little research sets forth comprehensive measures of their stocks or the relationships of capital assets to community outcomes. Building off conceptual frameworks for wealth creation, we develop a comprehensive set of indicators associated with stocks of community-based wealth at the county level. Including such indicators when evaluating co…
Facial Disfigurement, Stigma, and Cancer: Interaction Between Patients and Members of Secondary Groups
This article probes the issue of stigma generated by the interaction of facially disfigured cancer patients with strangers and acquaintances (secondary groups). Now, patients with cancer of the face survive. As they survive, they spend significant portions of their lives dealing with stigma. Limited knowledge is available on the interaction processes leading to the creation of stigma for facially disfigured cancer patients. This article addresses…
The environmental movement and labor in global capitalism: Lessons from the case of the Headwaters Forest
Decentralization, Informalization, and the State: A Reinterpretation of the Farm Crisis in the U.S
The paper presents a critical reinterpretation of the farm crisis and of the related phenomena of industrial decentralization and in formalization. It is argued that the present farm crisis is new only in qualitative terms, as 'the farming sector experienced similar crises in different periods of U.s. history. It is also pointed out that only some segments of the farming sector are experiencing this crisis, while others are growing and profiting …
The Status of Rural Elderly in Southern Italy: A Political Economic View
Discussions of the position of the elderly have typically been cast in terms of demographic considerations and/or level of industrialisation. In contradistinction to this approach we employ a political economic perspective which reveals the contradictions present in the situation of aged small farmers in southern Italy. Using a dialectic approach, it is argued that the function performed by the small farm sector, that of keeper of the surplus lab…
The social creation of dependence, dependency ratios, and the elderly in the United States: A critical analysis
Agricultural policies and the capitalist State
Structural and technical development in agriculture: An international overview
Analyzing development, dependency and underdevelopment: Suggestions for an alternative approach
This paper reexamines sociological modernization theories of development and current theories of dependency and underdevelopment. It is argued that both sets of literature present one‐sided portrayals of social change in contemporary Third World countries. In place of these we propose an alternative dialectical approach. We suggest the way in which this approach integrates international political and economic emphases of the neo‐Marxist approache…
Small Farms: Persistence with Legitimation
Theories of the State: The Case of Land Reform in Italy, 1944-1961
This article examines the case of land reform in Italy from 1944 to 1961 in relation to the role of the State in capitalism. Through an analysis of recent debate on the capitalist State, it offers an investigation of the generation and outcomes of the process of land reform. It is important to note that the social pressure exerted by landless peasants and farm workers for the redistribution of land and the dissolution of the dominant social bloc …
On the penetration of capitalism in agriculture: A short critique of gary green's “state, class, and technology in tobacco production”
Agriculture and dualistic development: The case of Italy
Changes, crisis, and restructuring in western Europe: The new dimensions of agriculture
Science, Technology, and the Restructuring of Agriculture
The restructuring of the agricultural and food system: Social and economic equity in the reshaping of the Agrarian Question and the Food Question
From an Agrarian to an Environmental, Food, and Natural Resource Base for Agricultural Policy: Some Reflections on the Case of the EC
The agriculture of the European Community (EC) has experienced significant changes in the last decade. From a situation of deficiency in agricultural and food production, the twelve-nation community has shifted to a situation of food overproduction. This change has also been characterized by a rapid decrease in the agricultural labor force and a decrease of its importance in the employment structure which has manifested itself in fewer, more effi…
The Sociology of U.S. Agriculture: An Ecological Perspective
Working 'Over-Time: Economic Restructuring and Retirement of a Class
This article examines the reasons working-class retirees give for their continued labor activity and discusses these in relation to the present socioeconomic situation. Through the use of primary qualitative data supplemented by others' empirical work, it is argued that working-class retirees engage in labor because they lack the economic resources to survive, desire to maintain their previous status, and experience threats to the status of their…
Some reflections on Eastern European agriculture an introductory essay to the special issue on “agriculture in Eastern Europe”
The agro-food sector and the transnational state
To Farm or Not to Farm: Rural Dilemma in Russia and Ukraine
Employing primary data collected in the summer of 1991 in a representative survey of two farming areas in the territory of the republics of Russia and Ukraine, this study addresses the issue of the future involvement of collective and state-farm workers in private farming. Through the use of a LISREL model, it is argued that those who have been involved in small-scale private farming show no interest in expanding their farm operations or in buyin…
From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food
Global contested terrain: The case of the tuna-dolphin controversy
The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems
The Tuna-Dolphin Controversy
This study uses the case of the tuna-dolphin controversy to inform discussions in the sociology of agriculture regarding global post-Fordism in general and the new mode of regulation in particular. Global post-Fordism is defined as the global economic restructuring in progress and the associated emergence of transnational corporations (TNCs) and transnational-States. Mode of regulation is the historically specific set of social norms that are ins…
Global Agro-Food Corporations and the State: The Ferruzzi Case
The relationship between transnational corporations (TNCs) in the agro-food sector and the nation-state in the context of global post-Fordism is examined through a case study of recent events involving the Ferruzzi transnational corporation. TNCs have a complex and contradictory set of relations with the state that are affected by competition among TNCs, by TNCs' internal disagreements, and by the fragmented nature of the state. The state assists…
From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food
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