“toiling ingenuity”: food regulation in Britain and Nigeria

Abstract

The article addresses the history of British and Nigerian food regulation as an example of the logic of regulatory processes in the modern history of metropolitan, colonial, and postcolonial countries. I argue that three relatively internally coherent models of regulation have been developed in Britain and that a fourth is under current construction. These models have replaced one another, but incompletely, in the metropolitan repertoire. The previous models remain available, and groups within the metropolis advocate their mobilization with respect to other populations. In the struggle over implementation, the models are replicated only partially, resulting in apparently anomalous dynamics. Nigeria is used as an example. The article advocates the anthropological study of formal sector regulation as one of the most important political processes in the current world. [state regulation, food systems, colonialism, global processes, Nigeria]

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