인류세 시대의 생명정치와 음식생산시스템 --마이클 캐롤란의 『값싼 음식의 실제 가격』에 나타난 외부효과를 중심으로

Abstract

In Anthropocene epoch, the human communities require practical ways, new biopolitics in which human and nature can coexist for a sustainable environment. New biopolitics can politically support alternative food system, which can accelerate the circulation of ecosystem while using the natural resources. Therefore, should industrial food systems be criticized in terms of not only human and environmental health but socio-economic concept, “externalities”, the legetimacy of alternative systems can be secured in accordance to new biopolitics. Michael Carolan’s The Real Cost of Cheap Food criticizes both the direction of existing biopolitics and economic efficiency on industrial food systems with the externalities of food production costs. With unfairness and inefficiency of industrial food systems, he suggests effective political supports for alternative food systems with its validities and democratic decision making procedures. Therefore, if this study examines the food systems with his arguments, it can discuss the new direction of biopolitics which embraces sustainable environment, human health, and human-nature coexistence. Furthermore, global societies can justify various political support measures for alternative food systems.