Capital’s Food Regime

Jostein Jakobsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. He works in agrarian studies and recently co-authored Authoritarian Populism and Bovine Political Economy in Modi’s India (Routledge, 2024).

• AcknowledgementsList of Tables, Figures and Maps1 Introduction1 Downscaling Food Regime Analysis2 Beyond Reifications3 The Structure of the Book2 The Travels and Travails of the Global Food Regime1 The Emergence of Food Regime Analysis2 Established Food Regime Periodisation3 Debating the Third Food Regime4 Beyond the Third Food Regime?5 Steps towards the ‘Concrete’6 Conclusion3 Agrarian Change in Postcolonial India1 The ‘Resurrection’ of Agrarian Scholarship2 Beyond ‘cul-de-sac’: Agrarian Questions and Transitions3 India’s Integral State4 Neoliberalising the Indian State5 Conclusion4 Crisis, Counter-Movements, Class Analysis1 Food Regime Crisis2 Enter Polanyi3 India’s Agrarian Crisis4 Towards a Peasant Counter-Movement?4.1 The 2020–21 Farm Law Agitations in Context5 Conclusion5 Neoliberalisation, the State and the Case of Right-to-Food1 Challenging ‘Progressive’ State Action in the Global Food Regime2 The State and Neoliberalism in Food Regime Analysis3 The Contradictions of the Neoliberalising State in India4 The Right-to-Food in India4.1 Short-Term Neoliberalisation4.2 Longer-Term Neoliberalisation5 The ‘Long’ Green Revolution, Crises and Commodity Frontiers6 Conclusion6 The Hybrid Maize Frontier1 Hybrid Maize in the Global Food Regime2 Commodity Frontiers3 Methods and Field Site4 The Hybrid Maize Frontier Seen ‘from Above’4.1 The Maize Frontier in Karnataka5 The Hybrid Maize Frontier Seen ‘from Below’5.1 Local Markets and Dealers in Hybrid Maize5.2 The Making of the Boom5.3 The Rainfed Dystopia and Classes of Labour5.4 Maize Materiality5.5 The Multiple Use-Values of Maize6 Conclusion7 Concluding Reflections1 The Contributions of this BookReferencesIndex