About the Series  ix

Acknowledgments  xi

1. Introduction: Creating a New Rationality of Agriculture in a Postindustrial World  1

Part I. Toward a New Rationality of Agriculture  

2. The New Paysan Movements: French Industrialized Agriculture and the Rise of the Postindustrial Paysan  39

3. The Confédération Paysanne: Philosophy, Structure, and Constituency  69

Part II. The Confédération Paysanne's Early Anti-GMO Campaign, from Risk to Globalization  

4. Union Activism and Programs: Early Campaigns and Paysan Agriculture  89

5. We Have Always Been Modern: Toward a Progressive Anti-GMO Campaign  112

6. The Trial of the GMOs: Deploying Discourses from Risk to Globalization  137

Part III. How France Grew Its Own Antiglobalization Movement  

7. Caravans, GMOs, and McDo: The Campaign Continues  163

8. Operation Roquefort, Part I: Traveling to Washington, DC  198

9. Operation Roquefort, Part II: The Battle of Seattle  221

10. Postindustrial Paysans in a Post-Seattle World: New Movements, New Possibilities  248

11. Conclusion: French Lessons; What's to Be Learned  291

Notes  307

Works Cited  311

Index  323

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