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Subsistence under capitalism : historical and contemporary perspectives /

"The complex relationship between subsistence practices and formal markets should be a growing matter of concern for those uneasy with the stark contrast between commercial and local food systems, especially since self-provisioning has never been limited to the margins. In fact, subsistence occ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Murton, James Ernest, 1969- (Editor ), Bavington, Dean, 1973- (Editor ), Dokis, Carly A. (Carly Ann), 1978- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.
Colección:McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Why subsistence? / James Murton, Dean Bavington, and Carly Dokis
  • The seeds of calculability: the home farms experiment on and off the books / Sarah J. Martin
  • Blurring the boundaries: subsistence and recreational fisheries in late-nineteenth-century Ontario / William Knight
  • Spinning flax in mills, households, and the Canadian state, 1850-1870 / Joshua MacFadyen
  • Rural households, subsistence, and environment on the Canadian Shield, 1901-1940 / R.W. Sandwell
  • Fishing for subsistence, sport, and sovereignty on Lake Nipissing / Nancy Pottery
  • Aboriginal subsistence practices in an "isolated" region of Northern Alberta / Clinton N. Westman
  • Working with fish in the shadows of sustainability / Jennifer Lee Johnson and Bakaaki Robert
  • Rethinking the legacies of "subsistence thinking" / Michael J. Hathaway
  • Alternative agriculture, the vernacular, and the MST: re-creating subsistence as the sustainable development of human rights / M. Jabi Chappell
  • Research by people: a panel discussion on living subsistence locally / edited by Dean Bavington and Jennifer Hough Evans
  • In defense of vernacular ways / Sajay Samuel
  • On the semantics of theorizing the cause(s) of the shadows, or how to think about counting the differences between a wild edible mushroom and a super tanker, neither of which fits the commodity form / Colin A.M. Duncan
  • Conclusion / James Murton, Dean Bavington, and Carly Dokis.