Essays about: "Jenica Frique"

Found 1 essay containing the words Jenica Frique.

  1. 1. Unpacking Lunch: Political Ecology & The Meat Industrial Complex

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Jenica Frique; Jenica Frisque; [2010]
    Keywords : political ecology; neoliberalism; development; factory farming; meat-industrial complex; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This paper highlights, theoretically and empirically, how development and underdevelopment are closely linked by looking at the global food system, with a special emphasis on the meat-industrial complex. Conceptually, this thesis mobilizes Foster’s theory of metabolic rift, O’Connor’s theory of the second contradiction of capitalism, and Harvey’s “accumulation by dispossession” to account for the socio-ecological contradictions of the meat-industrial complex. READ MORE