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Zusatztext ‘This book changes the way we must understand and engage with the transformative powers and potentialities of farms and farming in any setting. The book’s brilliant account of the politics of land, people and biota of Aotearoa New Zealand since European colonisation shows that nothing about farms as socio-ecological projects is unchallengeable. He unashamedly frames the power of farms in terms of their visible and invisible powers centred on property. While an extremely robust even brutal expose, the book’s mission is to re-instate contemporary farms as sites of vitality, renewal, experiments and hope. This is the agri-food book of the 21st century.’ Informationen zum Autor Hugh Campbell was appointed Chair in Sociology at the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2010. For the ten years prior to that he was the Director of the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CSAFE) at the University of Otago and programme leader of four major research programmes into the elaboration of alternative farming practices and food systems.Esteemed scholar Hugh Campbell presents a new theory of the power and impact of farms as a site of power within colonised landscapes. Zusammenfassung This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Otago, New Zealand . Farming Inside Invisible Worlds argues that the farm is a key player in the creation and stabilisation of political, economic and ecological power-particularly in colonised landscapes like New Zealand, America and Australia. This open access book reviews and rejects the way that farms are characterised in orthodox economics and agricultural science and then shows how re-centring the farm using the theoretical idea of political ontology can transform the way we understand the power of farming. Starting with the colonial history of farms in New Zealand, Hugh Campbell goes on to describe the rise of modernist farming and its often hidden political, racial and ecological effects. He concludes with an examination of alternative ways to farm in New Zealand, showing how the prior histories of colonisation and modernisation reveal important ways to farm differently in post-colonial worlds. Hugh Campbell's book has wide-ranging implications for understanding the role farms play in both our food systems and landscapes, and is an exciting new addition to food studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: Visible and Invisible Farming Worlds1. Farming and Ontology2. The Powers and Consequences of the Colonial Farm in New Zealand3. From Colonial to Modernist Farming4. The Crisis of Modernist Farming5. Farming Inside Visible WorldsEpilogue: Theorizing the Ontology of FarmsBibliography Index...
