Food activism today : sustainability, climate change, and social justice / Donald M. Nonini and Dorothy C. Holland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nonini, Donald Macon, author.

Contributor:

Holland, Dorothy C.

Series:

Social Transformations in American Anthropology Series

Social Transformations in American Anthropology Series ; v.6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Environmental aspects--United States.

Food supply.

Food supply--Social aspects--United States.

Local foods--United States.

Local foods.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 391 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ): illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"As climate change, childhood obesity, and food insecurity accelerate at an alarming pace, activists around the country are working to address the pressing need for healthy and sustainable solutions to feed the population. Food Activism Today investigates the new approaches food activists are taking as they formulate alternatives to the current unsustainable agro-industrial food system. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over an eleven-month period in both urban and rural North Carolina, the volume addresses questions about the moral visions of food activists, how class and racial hierarchies infuse some food activism movements, and how food activism relates to climate change and imminent ecological collapse. Exploring food activism around both local and sustainable food production and food security for lower-income people, the volume finds surprisingly little overlap, with the two movements seemingly remaining distinct approaches (at least for now) to issues around the food system, climate change, and access to healthy food choices. As the US moves into an era in which climate change and neoliberal tensions are conjoined in a looming political crisis, Food Activism Today looks at where food activism is headed, the ethics and issues surrounding alternative approaches to food production, and how food production is related to broader issues of climate change." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction : Living in one world, imagining another

Part I : The corporate industrial food alliance and the myths it promotes

Out food and the alliance

Three myths that prop up industrial foods

Part II : Food activists confront neoliberalism's ecological devastation and economic inequalities

Activism for a more sustainable and just food system

Sustainable food activists engage "the economy"

Food security activism in lean and mean times

Part III : Cross-over experiments in sustainable and socially just food systems

Slow food Charlotte, farmers, and food insecurity

F.A.R.M. Café and classed lives at one's table

Cornucopia landscaping, abundance, and food justice

Clarketon community garden and racial and class divisions

Assessing the transformative significance of food activism

Conclusion : The present and future of food activism

Appendix : "Progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-373) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Nonini, Donald M. Food Activism Today

ISBN:

9781479810994

1479810991

OCLC:

1417757911