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Financialization, distance and global food politics

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dc.contributor.authorClapp, Jennifer
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-20T18:54:29Z
dc.date.available2017-03-20T18:54:29Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-03
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Peasant Studies on 2014-01-15, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03066150.2013.875536en
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides a new perspective on the political implications of intensified financialization in the global food system. There has been a growing recognition of the role of finance in the global food system, in particular the way in which financial markets have become a mode of accumulation for large transnational agribusiness players within the current food regime. This paper highlights a further political implication of agrifood system financialization, namely how it fosters ‘distancing’ in the food system and how that distance shapes the broader context of global food politics. Specifically, the paper advances two interrelated arguments. First, a new kind of distancing has emerged within the global food system as a result of financialization that has (a) increased the number of the number and type of actors involved in global agrifood commodity chains and (b) abstracted food from its physical form into highly complex agricultural commodity derivatives. Second, this distancing has obscured the links between financial actors and food system outcomes in ways that make the political context for opposition to financialization especially challenging.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2013.875536
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/11545
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.subjectFinancializationen
dc.subjectDistanceen
dc.subjectCommodity speculationen
dc.subjectLand grabsen
dc.subjectHungeren
dc.subjectCivil societyen
dc.subject.lcshfinancializationen
dc.subject.lcshcommercial productsen
dc.subject.lcshcivil societyen
dc.titleFinancialization, distance and global food politicsen
dc.typeArticleen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationClapp, J. (2014). Financialization, distance and global food politics. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(5), 797–814. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2013.875536en
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Environmenten
uws.contributor.affiliation2School of Environment, Resources and Sustainabilityen
uws.peerReviewStatusRevieweden
uws.scholarLevelFacultyen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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