Food trucks, cultural identity, and social justice : from loncheras to lobsta love / edited by Julian Agyeman, Caitlin Matthews, and Hannah Sobel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agyeman, Julian, editor.

Matthews, Caitlin, 1952- editor.

Sobel, Hannah, editor.

James Samuel Blank Fund.

Series:

Food, health, and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food trucks--United States.

Food trucks.

Food trucks--Canada.

Street vendors--Law and legislation--United States.

Street vendors.

Street vendors--Law and legislation--Canada.

Social justice--United States.

Social justice.

United States.

Social justice--Canada.

Canada.

Physical Description:

vi, 336 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

Summary:

The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style tonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving lobster rolls. Customers range from gastro-tourists to construction workers, all eager for food that is delicious, authentic, and relatively inexpensive. Although some cities that host food trucks encourage their proliferation, other throw up regulatory roadblocks. This book examines the food truck phenomenon in North American cities from Los Angeles to Montreal, taking a novel perspective: social justice. It considers the motivating factors behind a city's promotion or restriction of mobile food vending, and how these motivations might connect to or impede broad goals of social justice. The contributors investigate the discriminatory implementation of rules, with gentrified hipsters often receiving preferential treatment over traditional immigrants: food trucks as part of community economic development; and food trucks' role in cultural identity formation. They describe, among other things, mobile food vending in Portland, Oregon, where relaxed permitting encourages street food; the criminalization of food trucks by Los Angeles and New York City health codes; food as cultural currency in Montreal; social and spatial bifurcation of food trucks in Chicago and Durham, North Carolina; and food trucks as a part of Vancouver. Canada's self-branding as the "Greenest City." Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : From loncheras to lobsta love / Julian Agyeman, Caitlin Matthews, and Hannah Sobel

Relaxing regulatory controls : vendor advocacy and rights in mobile food vending / Ginette Wessel

Decriminalize street vending : reform with and for social justice / Kathleen Dunn

To serve and to protect: food trucks and food safety in a transforming Los Angeles / Mark Vallianatos

Stuck in park : New York City's war on food trucks / Sean Basinski, Matthew Shapiro, and Alfonso Morales

Learning from New Orleans : will revising or relaxing public space ordinances create a just environment for street commerce? / Renia Ehrenfeucht and Ana Croegaert

From hippy to hip : city governance and two eras of street vending in Vancouver, Canada / Amy Hanser

Reflexive food-truck justice : a case study in click, inc, a non-profit shared-use commercial kitchen / Phoebe Godfrey

The spatial practices of food trucks / Robert Lemon

Eating in the city : Fidel Gastro, street performance, and the right to the city / Edward Whittall

Why local regulations may matter less than we think : street vending in Chicago and Durham, NC / Nina Martin

Breach, bridgehead, or trojan horse? : an exploration of the role of food trucks in Montreal's changing foodscape / Alan Nash

Scripting the city : street food, urban policy, and neoliberal redevelopment in Vancouver, Canada / Lenore Lauri Newman and Katherine Alexandra Newman

Atlanta's food truck fervor : policy impediments and entrepreneurial efforts to expand mobile cuisine / Mackenzie Wood, Jennifer Clark, and Emma French

Is it local or authentic and exotic? : ethnic food carts and gastropolitan habitus on Portland's eastside / Nathan McClintock, Alex Novie, and Matthew Gebhardt

Reflections / Julian Agyeman, Caitlin Matthews, and Hannah Sobel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.

ISBN:

9780262036573

0262036576

9780262534079

026253407X

OCLC:

978285944

Publisher Number:

99973428899