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Food Activism Today : Sustainability, Climate Change, and Social Justice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nonini, Donald M.
- 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.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "This book examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisions. In four locales in North Carolina, this book reveals the contributions made by local food movement activists seeking to bring about more sustainable and more socially just local food economies"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface and a Note about Voice
- Introduction: Living in One World, Imagining Another
- Part I: The Corporate Industrial Food Alliance and the Myths It Promotes
- 1. Our Food and the Alliance
- 2. Three Myths That Prop Up Industrial Foods
- Part II: Food Activists Confront Neoliberalism's Ecological Devastation and Economic Inequalities
- 3. Activism for a More Sustainable and Just Food System
- 4. Sustainable Food Activists Engage "the Economy"
- 5. Food Security Activism in Lean and Mean Times
- Part III: Cross-Over Experiments in Sustainable and Socially Just Food Systems
- 6. Slow Food Charlotte, Farmers, and Food Insecurity
- 7. F.A.R.M. Cafe and Classed Lives at One's Table
- 8. Cornucopia Landscaping, Abundance, and Food Justice
- 9. Clarketon Community Garden and Racial and Class Divisions
- 10. Assessing the Transformative Significance of Food Activism
- Conclusion: The Present and Future of Food Activism
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: "Progress in the Art, Not Only of Robbing the Worker, but of Robbing the Soil"
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Authors
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references 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
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