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Of beans and bonds: Canadian farmers, Japanese buyers, and the moral economy of the non-GM soybean

Of beans and bonds: Canadian farmers, Japanese buyers, and the moral economy of the non-GM soybean The following study examines how the spread of transgenic crops in North America and a concomitant rise in Japanese consumer concern over food safety allows spaces for human interaction and agency to intervene in and restructure a commodity’s global flow. Challenging assumptions of the ‘global marketplace’ as necessarily distant, culturally detached, and impersonal, the descriptive analysis of the annual soy bean inspections that occur between Japanese buyers and small-scale Canadian producers illuminates the ways that ‘perceived risks’ surrounding transgenic soybean cultivation and distribution intensifies exchange at the local level. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Of beans and bonds: Canadian farmers, Japanese buyers, and the moral economy of the non-GM soybean

Whitelaw, Gavin H.
Contemporary Japan , Volume 29 (1): 20 – Jan 2, 2017
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Of beans and bonds: Canadian farmers, Japanese buyers, and the moral economy of the non-GM soybean

Abstract

The following study examines how the spread of transgenic crops in North America and a concomitant rise in Japanese consumer concern over food safety allows spaces for human interaction and agency to intervene in and restructure a commodity’s global flow. Challenging assumptions of the ‘global marketplace’ as necessarily distant, culturally detached, and impersonal, the descriptive analysis of the annual soy bean inspections that occur between Japanese buyers and...
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2016 German Institute for Japanese Studies
ISSN
1869-2737
eISSN
1869-2729
DOI
10.1080/18692729.2017.1260260
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Abstract

The following study examines how the spread of transgenic crops in North America and a concomitant rise in Japanese consumer concern over food safety allows spaces for human interaction and agency to intervene in and restructure a commodity’s global flow. Challenging assumptions of the ‘global marketplace’ as necessarily distant, culturally detached, and impersonal, the descriptive analysis of the annual soy bean inspections that occur between Japanese buyers and small-scale Canadian producers illuminates the ways that ‘perceived risks’ surrounding transgenic soybean cultivation and distribution intensifies exchange at the local level.

Journal

Contemporary Japan – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2017

Keywords: GMO; food supply; agriculture; gift exchange; Japan; Canada

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