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Lindgaard and de la Porte reveal what the success of this three-decade long imposture tells us about the degeneration of contemporary French intellectual and cultural life

as “almost certain to be the most important book on social classes” of the decade

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just as a collective practice of civil imagination reconstructs our apprehension of those with whom we unevenly share a lifeworld

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The Food Wars keyword-prize Lindgaard and de la PorteViolent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices from 2006 to 2008, highlighted an intrinsic flaw in the modern system of world tradeone that poses a serious threat to regional and international stability. In The Food Wars, Walden Bello traces the evolution of this crisis, examining its eruption in Mexico, Africa, the Philippines and China. Daring in vision and impassioned in tone, The Food Wars speaks out against the