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Taylor and Francis Ltd Capitalist Agriculture and the Global Bee Crisis 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Ellis, Rebecca
presents a political ecology of pollination that critically examines how managed honey and bumble bees and wild bees are harmed by capitalist industrial agriculture. _x000D_focuses on the three most urgent problems: the standardization and simplification of landscapes through monocultures; the use of pesticides including neonicotinoids, other insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides; and the embeddedness of commercial, migratory beekeeping in the capitalist industrial agriculture system _x000D_this book will be of significant interest to readers of political ecology, animal geographies, environmental anthropology, food system studies, and critical animal studies._x000D_ _x000D_
1. Introduction: The global pollinator crisis and human agriculture 2. Bees in the capitalocene 3. The Apis-Industrial Complex: the commodification of the lives and work of honeybees 4. Toxic flowers and uncertain science: pesticides and bees 5. Bee-washing: agrochemical corporations and struggles over neonicotinoids 6. Which bees shall we save? Debates over honey bee harm to native bees 7. Pollinator People: hopeful possibilities for multispecies flourishing in cities 8. Conclusions: Building movements to confront capitalist agriculture_x000D_