The New Food Activism : Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action / Alison Alkon, Julie Guthman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alkon, Alison, editor.

Guthman, Julie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--United States.

Food security.

Organic farming--United States.

Organic farming.

Sustainable agriculture--Social aspects--United States.

Sustainable agriculture.

Food--Political aspects.

Food.

Food consumption--United States.

Food consumption.

Social justice--United States.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts to improve workers' pay and conditions throughout the food system, and ways to push food activism beyond its typical reliance on individualism, consumerism, and private property. The authors challenge and advance existing discourse on consumer trends, food movements, and the intersection of food with racial and economic inequalities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction / Alkon, Alison Hope / Guthman, Julie

Part One: Regulatory Campaigns

2. Taking a Different Tack: Pesticide Regulatory-Reform Activism in California / Harrison, Jill Lindsey

3. How Canadian Farmers Fought and Won the Battle against GM Wheat / Eaton, Emily

4. How Midas Lost Its Golden Touch: Neoliberalism and Activist Strategy in the Demise of Methyl Iodide in California / Guthman, Julie / Brown, Sandy

Part Two: Working for Workers

5. Resetting the "Good Food" Table: Labor and Food Justice Alliances in Los Angeles / Sbicca, Joshua

6. Food Workers and Consumers Organizing Together for Food Justice / Lo, Joann / Koenig, Biko

7. Farmworker-Led Food Movements Then and Now: United Farm Workers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and the Potential for Farm Labor Justice / Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne

Part Three: Collective Practices

8. Collective Purchase: Food Cooperatives and Their Pursuit of Justice / Zitcer, Andrew

9. Cooperative Social Practices, Self-Determination, and the Struggle for Food Justice in Oakland and Chicago / Figueroa, Meleiza / Alkon, Alison Hope

10. Urban Agriculture, Food Justice, and Neoliberal Urbanization: Rebuilding the Institution of Property / Glowa, Michelle

11. Boston's Emerging Food Solidarity Economy / Loh, Penn / Agyeman, Julian

12. Grounding the U.S. Food Movement: Bringing Land into Food Justice / Kerssen, Tanya M. / Brent, Zoe W.

13. Conclusion: A New Food Politics / Alkon, Alison Hope / Guthman, Julie

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520965652

0520965655

OCLC:

965781603