Beyond Global Food Supply Chains : Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration / edited by Victoria Stead, Melinda Hinkson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stead, Victoria C.

Contributor:

Hinkson, Melinda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Anthropology.

Sociology.

Nutrition.

Food.

Human Geography.

Sociology of Food and Nutrition.

Local Subjects:

Human Geography.

Anthropology.

Sociology of Food and Nutrition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2022.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Through a set of incisive essays, this incredibly timely book shows how much the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed both vulnerabilities and opportunities - for (racial) capitalism and its discontents alike to intervene in food supply chains. A most welcome publication!" —Julie Guthman Professor of Social Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA This open access book takes the upheaval of the global COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard from which to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system. In a context in which disruptions to the production, distribution, and consumption of food are figured as exceptions to the smooth, just-in-time efficiencies of global supply chains, these essays reveal the global food system as one that is inherently disruptive of human lives and flourishing, and of relationships between people, places, and environments. The pandemic thus represents a particular, acute moment of disruption, offering a lens on a deeper, longer set of systemic processes, and shining new light on transformational possibilities. Victoria Stead is an anthropologist and Australian Research Council DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. Her research sits at the intersection of attention to race and labour relations, land and landscape, and the reverberations of (post)coloniality in Australia and across Australia-Pacific relations. Melinda Hinkson is an associate professor of anthropology at Deakin University and director of the independent Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne. Her latest research explores creative responses to disruption and visions of agricultural futures in regional Australia. Melinda has published widely on Aboriginal visual production, placemaking, the politics of representation, and the governance of Indigenous difference. .

Contents:

Part1 Foundations

Chapter 1. Introduction: Beyond Global Supply Chains

Chapter 2: Supply Chains As Disruption

Chapter 3: Agri-Investment Cashing In On Covid-19

Part2 Production

Chapter 4: Putting The Crisis To Work

Chapter 5: Going Against The Grain In The West Australian Wheatbelt

Chapter 6: Reviving Community Agrarianism In Post-Socialist China

Part3 Distribution

Chapter 7: Fantasies Of Logistics In Aotearoa New Zealand

Chapter 8: Reproducing Hunger In Pandemic America

Chapter 9: The Pandemic Supermarket

Part4 Food Politics

Chapter 10: Disruption As Reprieve?

Chapter 11: The Un Food Systems Summit: Disaster Capitalism And The Future Of Food

Chapter 12: Against Consumer Ethics

Chapter 13. Afterword: Temporary Measures. .

ISBN:

9789811931550

9811931550

OCLC:

1337589971

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access