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The New Food Activism Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action
Title
The New Food Activism [electronic resource] : Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action / Edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman.
ISBN
0520965655
9780520965652
9780520292130 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520292147 (pbk.)
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Summary
"New and exciting forms of food activism are emerging as supporters of sustainable agriculture increasingly recognize the need for a broader, more strategic and more politicized food politics that engages with questions of social, racial, and economic justice. This book highlights examples of campaigns to restrict industrial agriculture's use of pesticides and other harmful technologies, struggles to improve the pay and conditions of workers throughout the food system, and alternative projects that seek to de-emphasize notions of individualism and private ownership. Grounded in over a decade of scholarly critique of food activism, this volume seeks to answer the question of "what next," inspiring scholars, students, and activists toward collective, cooperative, and oppositional struggles for change."--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2017 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2017 Political Science and Policy Studies.
Other formats
Online version: New food activism Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 27, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman
Taking a different tack: pesticide regulatory reform activism in California / Jill Lindsey Harrison
How canadian farmers fought and won the battle against GM wheat / Emily Eaton
How midas lost its golden touch: neoliberalism and activist strategy in the demise of methyl iodide in California / Julie Guthman and Sandy Brown
Resetting the good food table: labor and food justice alliances in Los Angeles / Joshua Sbicca
Food workers and consumers organizing together for food justice / Joann Lo and Biko Koenig
Farmworker-led food movements then and now: the united farmworkers, the coalition of Immokalee workers, and the potential for farm labor justice / Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
Collective purchase: food cooperatives and their pursuit of justice / Andrew Zitcer
Collectivizing markets to strengthen communities: cooperative social practices, self-determination, and the struggle for food justice in Oakland and Chicago / Meliza Figuoera and Alison Hope Alkon
Urban agriculture, food justice, and neoliberal urbanization: rebuilding the institution of property /Michelle Glowa
Boston's emerging food solidarity economy / Penn Loh and Julian Agyeman
Grounding the US food movement: bringing land into food justice / Tanya M. Kerssen and Zoe W. Brent
Conclusion: a new food politics / Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman.
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