'Choking on the smell of money': Resistance, economic development and the hog industry in rural Manitoba.

摘要

This thesis is an attempt to explain how two corporately owned intensive hog operations came to be established in the town I grew up in, Hamiota, MB, and how residents reacted to a development that occurred in the absence of public consultations. In trying to understand how global agricultural restructuring contributes to power struggles in specific places, it is useful to try to link macro, structural accounts of restructuring with more localized, micro studies. To this end, I link the political economy of food and feminist political ecology literatures using Foucault's concepts of power and discourse. While this, theoretical framework allows for an exploration of the nested scales of regulation and agency, expanding traditional definitions of political resistance points to Scott's theorizing about everyday resistance, in order to recognize the "quiet" resistance to intensive hog operations in Hamiota.