Food resistance movements : journeying through alternative food networks / Ferne Edwards.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Edwards, Ferne, author.

Contributor:

• ProQuest ebook central

Series:

• Alternatives and futures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Food security.
• Food sovereignty.
• Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 158 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2023]

Contents:

• Intro
• Series Editor Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Praise for Food Resistance Movements
• Contents
• About the Author
• Abbreviations
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1: Introducing Food Resistance Movements
• Alternative Food Networks
• Trajectory 1: AFNs from Europe
• Trajectory 2: AFNs from North America
• Trajectory 3: AFNs in the Global South
• Trajectory 4: Social Welfare AFNs
• Why Cities?
• Case Studies in Australia, Venezuela and Catalonia
• Ethnographies of Food Resistance Movements
• The Book Structure
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 2: Food Waste Activism in Australia
• The Problem of Overconsumption and Food 'Waste'
• My Radical Beginnings in the Bin
• The Ethics of Sourcing and Eating 'Garbage'
• Associated Freegan Subcultures
• Where Do Freegans 'Shop'?
• What's on the Freegan Menu?
• The Politics of FNB Serving Sites
• Is Eating 'Garbage' Safe?
• Is It Legal?
• Constructing a Freegan Identity
• References
• Chapter 3: The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela
• A Brief History of Venezuelan Politics, Dutch Disease and Agriculture
• So Enters Chávez
• In the Field
• Venezuelan Gastronomy and Food Pathways
• Indigenous and Traditional Food Pathways
• The Commercial Pathway
• The Informal Sector
• Independent Alternative Food Pathways
• The Venezuelan Food Sovereignty Movement
• Rural and Urban Land Reform
• Urban Productive Programmes
• Distribution: Subsidised, Regulated and Free Food for All
• Subsidised and Regulated Supermarket Chains
• A Blockage in the Food Chain?
• Subsidised Eateries
• Free Food
• Dietary Outcomes
• Environmental Outcomes
• Chávez's Final Years
• Chapter 4: Autonomous Food Spaces in Catalonia
• A Catalan Culture of Resistance and Protest
• Internal Governance Processes of Autonomous Food Spaces
• Can Masdeu
• L'Aixada
• La Xarca D'Aliments
• Governing 'Openness' to Sustain Resistance
• Sharing Physical and Virtual Space
• Membership
• Sustaining Autonomous Spaces Through Food Sharing
• Beyond Ethical Consumption at L'Aixada
• Anti-consumerism at La Xarxa
• Degrowth at Can Masdeu
• Chapter 5: Reflections on Food System Transitions
• Beyond Awareness Raising and Behaviour Change
• Institutionalisation: A Pathway for Integrating AFNs into Policy and Planning
• Maintenance and Care: Deepening and Sustaining Engagement in AFNs
• Failure
• Technological Innovation
• The Commercialisation of AFNs
• A Food Sharing Ecosystem: Diversification, Hybridisation and Replication of AFNs
• Diversification and Hybridisation
• Replication
• Translocal Food Movements
• Food Resistance Movements from Global South to North
• Chapter 6: Future Directions for Food Resistance Movements
• Index

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
• Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 13, 2023).

ISBN:

• 9789811957956
• 9811957959

Publisher Number:

99992805329

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.