Tony Weis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 81272 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tony Weis |
| NOMBRES | Tony |
| APELLIDO | Weis |
| FIRMA | WEIS T |
| AFILIACIONES | Western University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 410 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Ventilation shutdown and the breath-taking violence of infectious disease emergency management in industrial livestock production
Powerful ventilation systems are a crucial technology in industrial livestock production, mitigating the unhealthy ambient conditions that result from great densities of animal bodies, biowastes, and chemical agents, and enabling the rapid production of massive quantities of flesh and eggs in such crowded indoor spaces. But bad air is just one of many biophysical and technoscientific challenges managed in these spaces, chief among them the ever-p…
De-Meatification Imperative
Meatification describes a momentous dietary transformation: the average person on earth today consumes nearly twice as much animal flesh every year as did the average person just two generations ago, amidst a period of rapid human population growth and with marked disparities between rich and poor. Further, meatification is projected to continue in the coming three decades, at the same time as the world adds another 2 billion people, with growth …
Animals as and on Resource Frontiers
This paper attempts to locate changing interspecies relations in the dynamism and violence of capitalist expansion on a world scale, setting out two primary ways that the rising exploitation of non-human animals contributed to the development of settler-colonial economies, destabilization of indigenous societies, and transformation of ecosystems. One path was set by burgeoning demand essentially turning some wild animal species into increasingly …
A bitter pill
Through a qualitative case study from the Northern Region of Ghana, this paper examines smallholders’ perceptions of environmental change and contemporary Green Revolution prescriptions promoted by foreign donors, NGOs and the state. These prescriptions seek to commercialise and intensify production in Ghana through increasing use of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and faster-growing seed varieties. We argue that many smallholders are reluctantl…
From a free gift of nature to a precarious commodity
The growing crisis of bee health has shone a spotlight on the problems facing pollinator populations in many parts of the world, the worrying implications for agriculture and ecosystems, and some of the risks of pesticides. Although this attention is important and can open a range of critical vistas, the threats to bees, other pollinators, and the future of pollination are too often framed in narrow ways. The goal of this paper is to provide a sy…
Ghosts and Things
This article makes a case for centering animal life in conceptions of environmental, agrarian, and dietary change. It begins with a brief discussion of the extinction spasm and defaunation and suggests that envisaging landscapes of animal “ghosts” might help to evoke the ecological impoverishment this entails. Landscapes of ghosts are then set against the soaring populations of animals in industrial livestock production, stressing both the extens…
Agriculture in and beyond the Haitian catastrophe
Although the devastation from Haiti’s 2010 earthquake was concentrated in Port-au-Prince, it had deep agrarian roots. This paper situates Haiti’s urban poverty in the chronic exploitation of the country’s peasant classes as a basis for assessing the competing contemporary visions for agricultural development. We argue that the post-earthquake reconstruction has fortified a neoliberal development that is incompatible with the aspirations of the Ha…
Peasant balances, neoliberalism, and the stunted growth of non- traditional agro-exports in Haiti
This paper examines divergent peasant responses to models of export-oriented mango production that have been promoted in post-earthquake Haiti. While critical agrarian studies tends to focus more on the ways that capital shapes conditions facing peasant producers, there has been much less attention to the ways that peasant decision-making can restrict how capital operates. This paper argues that Haitian peasants strive to pursue their livelihoods…
Introducing
Introduction
Special issue: Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 41, Issue 6, 2014: Global Agrarian Transformations, vol. 2: Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty
The Ecological Hoofprint
The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand. Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical contradictions of industrial capitalist agriculture. The…
The meat of the global food crisis
The global food crisis has been widely described in terms of the volatility of grain and oilseed markets and the associated worsening conditions of food security facing many poor people. Various explanations have been given for this volatility, including increasingly meat-centered diets and rising demand for animal feed, especially in China. This is a very partial reading, as the food crisis runs much deeper than recent market turbulence; when it…
Approaching the political violence of agrarian change, dislocation, and food crises
Competing Views and Strategies on Agrarian Reform. Volume 1
The Accelerating Biophysical Contradictions of Industrial Capitalist Agriculture
The productivity of industrial capitalist agriculture is central to dominant development narratives. It is also highly unstable, with intractable biophysical problems created in the substitution of labour, skill and knowledge with technology, and overridden with unsustainable 'technological fixes' and masked by a host of externalized costs. Relatively cheap oil is central to this, effectively subsidizing the low-priced industrial grains and oilse…
The Global Food Economy - The battle for the future of farming
Preface * Chapter 1 - The Global Food Economy: Contradictions and Crises * Chapter 2 - The Temperate Grain-Livestock Complex * Chapter 3 - From Colonialism to Global Market Integration in the South * Chapter 4 - Entrenching an Uneven Playing Field: The Multilateral Regulation of Agriculture * Chapter 5 - The Battle for the Future of Farming * Bibliography * Notes * Index
The global food economy
Small farming and radical imaginations in the Caribbean today
Forged and still scarred by slavery, Caribbean agricultural landscapes are now being made redundant in an era of global market integration. The demise of preferential trade agreements is exposing the uncompetitiveness of the plantation sector while small farmers, still largely confined to marginal positions within highly inequitable landscapes, are being pushed into a new vulnerability by market integration, as rising food imports flood local mar…
The Rise, Fall and Future of the Jamaican Peasantry
This article examines the crisis of the Jamaican peasantry. Jamaica's peasants are struggling against pressures old and new, with the burden of their spatial inheritance magnified by a withering state, rising food imports following trade liberalisation, and oft-conflictive social relations. It begins by examining the historical formation of the peasantry after Emancipation, emphasising the unevenness of the landscape and the tensions between indi…
A precarious balance
This article examines the process of structural adjustment in Jamaica, and the various ways in which the contradictory tensions embedded in the current order are being contained. Although political, economic and social realities are deeply inequitable and potentially unstable, there are serious barriers to understanding, dialogue, organisation and optimism among the poor, which have produced implosive intra-class dynamics. Assessing these barrier…
Restructuring and Redundancy
Since the onset of IMF lending in the late 1970s, Washington-based planners have progressively compelled the Jamaican state to abandon its role in agriculture. Jamaica's agricultural adjustment occurred in two stages: first, agricultural development programmes were rolled back in the 1980s; second, liberalizing pressures in the 1990s threatened both the uncompetitive plantation sector (imperilling preferential markets) and domestically oriented s…
In Brief
Contradictions and Change in Jamaica
2001). Contradictions and Change in Jamaica: Theorizing Ecosocial Resistance Amidst Ecological Crisis. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 85-131
Beyond peasant deforestation
The Role and Limitations of Peasant Co-operatives in Rural Jamaica
Rural Jamaica possesses persistently high levels of poverty as numerous barriers frustrate the viability of peasant agriculture. This paper examines the acute vulnerability of the peasantry according to three types of constraints—production limitations, marketing linkages and the nature of market demand—and presents a hopeful case of a peasant cooperative struggling to overcome these obstacles. This co-operative provides both an instructive examp…
Introduction
Special issue: Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 41, Issue 6, 2014: Global Agrarian Transformations, vol. 2: Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty
The Accelerating Biophysical Contradictions of Industrial Capitalist Agriculture
The productivity of industrial capitalist agriculture is central to dominant development narratives. It is also highly unstable, with intractable biophysical problems created in the substitution of labour, skill and knowledge with technology, and overridden with unsustainable 'technological fixes' and masked by a host of externalized costs. Relatively cheap oil is central to this, effectively subsidizing the low-priced industrial grains and oilse…
The global food economy
The meat of the global food crisis
The global food crisis has been widely described in terms of the volatility of grain and oilseed markets and the associated worsening conditions of food security facing many poor people. Various explanations have been given for this volatility, including increasingly meat-centered diets and rising demand for animal feed, especially in China. This is a very partial reading, as the food crisis runs much deeper than recent market turbulence; when it…
Restructuring and Redundancy
Since the onset of IMF lending in the late 1970s, Washington-based planners have progressively compelled the Jamaican state to abandon its role in agriculture. Jamaica's agricultural adjustment occurred in two stages: first, agricultural development programmes were rolled back in the 1980s; second, liberalizing pressures in the 1990s threatened both the uncompetitive plantation sector (imperilling preferential markets) and domestically oriented s…
From a free gift of nature to a precarious commodity
The growing crisis of bee health has shone a spotlight on the problems facing pollinator populations in many parts of the world, the worrying implications for agriculture and ecosystems, and some of the risks of pesticides. Although this attention is important and can open a range of critical vistas, the threats to bees, other pollinators, and the future of pollination are too often framed in narrow ways. The goal of this paper is to provide a sy…
Ghosts and Things
This article makes a case for centering animal life in conceptions of environmental, agrarian, and dietary change. It begins with a brief discussion of the extinction spasm and defaunation and suggests that envisaging landscapes of animal “ghosts” might help to evoke the ecological impoverishment this entails. Landscapes of ghosts are then set against the soaring populations of animals in industrial livestock production, stressing both the extens…
The Rise, Fall and Future of the Jamaican Peasantry
This article examines the crisis of the Jamaican peasantry. Jamaica's peasants are struggling against pressures old and new, with the burden of their spatial inheritance magnified by a withering state, rising food imports following trade liberalisation, and oft-conflictive social relations. It begins by examining the historical formation of the peasantry after Emancipation, emphasising the unevenness of the landscape and the tensions between indi…
Peasant balances, neoliberalism, and the stunted growth of non- traditional agro-exports in Haiti
This paper examines divergent peasant responses to models of export-oriented mango production that have been promoted in post-earthquake Haiti. While critical agrarian studies tends to focus more on the ways that capital shapes conditions facing peasant producers, there has been much less attention to the ways that peasant decision-making can restrict how capital operates. This paper argues that Haitian peasants strive to pursue their livelihoods…
Beyond peasant deforestation
Small farming and radical imaginations in the Caribbean today
Forged and still scarred by slavery, Caribbean agricultural landscapes are now being made redundant in an era of global market integration. The demise of preferential trade agreements is exposing the uncompetitiveness of the plantation sector while small farmers, still largely confined to marginal positions within highly inequitable landscapes, are being pushed into a new vulnerability by market integration, as rising food imports flood local mar…
A precarious balance
This article examines the process of structural adjustment in Jamaica, and the various ways in which the contradictory tensions embedded in the current order are being contained. Although political, economic and social realities are deeply inequitable and potentially unstable, there are serious barriers to understanding, dialogue, organisation and optimism among the poor, which have produced implosive intra-class dynamics. Assessing these barrier…
Contradictions and Change in Jamaica
2001). Contradictions and Change in Jamaica: Theorizing Ecosocial Resistance Amidst Ecological Crisis. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 85-131
Ventilation shutdown and the breath-taking violence of infectious disease emergency management in industrial livestock production
Powerful ventilation systems are a crucial technology in industrial livestock production, mitigating the unhealthy ambient conditions that result from great densities of animal bodies, biowastes, and chemical agents, and enabling the rapid production of massive quantities of flesh and eggs in such crowded indoor spaces. But bad air is just one of many biophysical and technoscientific challenges managed in these spaces, chief among them the ever-p…
Agriculture in and beyond the Haitian catastrophe
Although the devastation from Haiti’s 2010 earthquake was concentrated in Port-au-Prince, it had deep agrarian roots. This paper situates Haiti’s urban poverty in the chronic exploitation of the country’s peasant classes as a basis for assessing the competing contemporary visions for agricultural development. We argue that the post-earthquake reconstruction has fortified a neoliberal development that is incompatible with the aspirations of the Ha…
The Global Food Economy - The battle for the future of farming
Preface * Chapter 1 - The Global Food Economy: Contradictions and Crises * Chapter 2 - The Temperate Grain-Livestock Complex * Chapter 3 - From Colonialism to Global Market Integration in the South * Chapter 4 - Entrenching an Uneven Playing Field: The Multilateral Regulation of Agriculture * Chapter 5 - The Battle for the Future of Farming * Bibliography * Notes * Index
Beyond peasant deforestation
The Role and Limitations of Peasant Co-operatives in Rural Jamaica
Rural Jamaica possesses persistently high levels of poverty as numerous barriers frustrate the viability of peasant agriculture. This paper examines the acute vulnerability of the peasantry according to three types of constraints—production limitations, marketing linkages and the nature of market demand—and presents a hopeful case of a peasant cooperative struggling to overcome these obstacles. This co-operative provides both an instructive examp…
In Brief
Contradictions and Change in Jamaica
2001). Contradictions and Change in Jamaica: Theorizing Ecosocial Resistance Amidst Ecological Crisis. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 85-131
Restructuring and Redundancy
Since the onset of IMF lending in the late 1970s, Washington-based planners have progressively compelled the Jamaican state to abandon its role in agriculture. Jamaica's agricultural adjustment occurred in two stages: first, agricultural development programmes were rolled back in the 1980s; second, liberalizing pressures in the 1990s threatened both the uncompetitive plantation sector (imperilling preferential markets) and domestically oriented s…
A precarious balance
This article examines the process of structural adjustment in Jamaica, and the various ways in which the contradictory tensions embedded in the current order are being contained. Although political, economic and social realities are deeply inequitable and potentially unstable, there are serious barriers to understanding, dialogue, organisation and optimism among the poor, which have produced implosive intra-class dynamics. Assessing these barrier…
The Rise, Fall and Future of the Jamaican Peasantry
This article examines the crisis of the Jamaican peasantry. Jamaica's peasants are struggling against pressures old and new, with the burden of their spatial inheritance magnified by a withering state, rising food imports following trade liberalisation, and oft-conflictive social relations. It begins by examining the historical formation of the peasantry after Emancipation, emphasising the unevenness of the landscape and the tensions between indi…
The global food economy
Small farming and radical imaginations in the Caribbean today
Forged and still scarred by slavery, Caribbean agricultural landscapes are now being made redundant in an era of global market integration. The demise of preferential trade agreements is exposing the uncompetitiveness of the plantation sector while small farmers, still largely confined to marginal positions within highly inequitable landscapes, are being pushed into a new vulnerability by market integration, as rising food imports flood local mar…
The Global Food Economy - The battle for the future of farming
Preface * Chapter 1 - The Global Food Economy: Contradictions and Crises * Chapter 2 - The Temperate Grain-Livestock Complex * Chapter 3 - From Colonialism to Global Market Integration in the South * Chapter 4 - Entrenching an Uneven Playing Field: The Multilateral Regulation of Agriculture * Chapter 5 - The Battle for the Future of Farming * Bibliography * Notes * Index
Competing Views and Strategies on Agrarian Reform. Volume 1
The Accelerating Biophysical Contradictions of Industrial Capitalist Agriculture
The productivity of industrial capitalist agriculture is central to dominant development narratives. It is also highly unstable, with intractable biophysical problems created in the substitution of labour, skill and knowledge with technology, and overridden with unsustainable 'technological fixes' and masked by a host of externalized costs. Relatively cheap oil is central to this, effectively subsidizing the low-priced industrial grains and oilse…
Approaching the political violence of agrarian change, dislocation, and food crises
The Ecological Hoofprint
The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand. Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical contradictions of industrial capitalist agriculture. The…
The meat of the global food crisis
The global food crisis has been widely described in terms of the volatility of grain and oilseed markets and the associated worsening conditions of food security facing many poor people. Various explanations have been given for this volatility, including increasingly meat-centered diets and rising demand for animal feed, especially in China. This is a very partial reading, as the food crisis runs much deeper than recent market turbulence; when it…
Introduction
Special issue: Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 41, Issue 6, 2014: Global Agrarian Transformations, vol. 2: Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty
Introducing
Peasant balances, neoliberalism, and the stunted growth of non- traditional agro-exports in Haiti
This paper examines divergent peasant responses to models of export-oriented mango production that have been promoted in post-earthquake Haiti. While critical agrarian studies tends to focus more on the ways that capital shapes conditions facing peasant producers, there has been much less attention to the ways that peasant decision-making can restrict how capital operates. This paper argues that Haitian peasants strive to pursue their livelihoods…
Agriculture in and beyond the Haitian catastrophe
Although the devastation from Haiti’s 2010 earthquake was concentrated in Port-au-Prince, it had deep agrarian roots. This paper situates Haiti’s urban poverty in the chronic exploitation of the country’s peasant classes as a basis for assessing the competing contemporary visions for agricultural development. We argue that the post-earthquake reconstruction has fortified a neoliberal development that is incompatible with the aspirations of the Ha…
Ghosts and Things
This article makes a case for centering animal life in conceptions of environmental, agrarian, and dietary change. It begins with a brief discussion of the extinction spasm and defaunation and suggests that envisaging landscapes of animal “ghosts” might help to evoke the ecological impoverishment this entails. Landscapes of ghosts are then set against the soaring populations of animals in industrial livestock production, stressing both the extens…
A bitter pill
Through a qualitative case study from the Northern Region of Ghana, this paper examines smallholders’ perceptions of environmental change and contemporary Green Revolution prescriptions promoted by foreign donors, NGOs and the state. These prescriptions seek to commercialise and intensify production in Ghana through increasing use of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and faster-growing seed varieties. We argue that many smallholders are reluctantl…
From a free gift of nature to a precarious commodity
The growing crisis of bee health has shone a spotlight on the problems facing pollinator populations in many parts of the world, the worrying implications for agriculture and ecosystems, and some of the risks of pesticides. Although this attention is important and can open a range of critical vistas, the threats to bees, other pollinators, and the future of pollination are too often framed in narrow ways. The goal of this paper is to provide a sy…
Animals as and on Resource Frontiers
This paper attempts to locate changing interspecies relations in the dynamism and violence of capitalist expansion on a world scale, setting out two primary ways that the rising exploitation of non-human animals contributed to the development of settler-colonial economies, destabilization of indigenous societies, and transformation of ecosystems. One path was set by burgeoning demand essentially turning some wild animal species into increasingly …
De-Meatification Imperative
Meatification describes a momentous dietary transformation: the average person on earth today consumes nearly twice as much animal flesh every year as did the average person just two generations ago, amidst a period of rapid human population growth and with marked disparities between rich and poor. Further, meatification is projected to continue in the coming three decades, at the same time as the world adds another 2 billion people, with growth …
Ventilation shutdown and the breath-taking violence of infectious disease emergency management in industrial livestock production
Powerful ventilation systems are a crucial technology in industrial livestock production, mitigating the unhealthy ambient conditions that result from great densities of animal bodies, biowastes, and chemical agents, and enabling the rapid production of massive quantities of flesh and eggs in such crowded indoor spaces. But bad air is just one of many biophysical and technoscientific challenges managed in these spaces, chief among them the ever-p…
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