Governing consumption: Mobilizing 'the consumer' within genetically modified and organic food networks

Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 153-168

  Lockie, Stewart ^a   Salem, Nell ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84918858615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203698907     Document Type: Chapter

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