Growing hope : narratives of food justice / Alexa Weik von Mossner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weik von Mossner, Alexa, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in environmental humanities, 2632-3125.

Cambridge elements. Elements in environmental humanities, 2632-3125

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--United States.

Food security.

Urban agriculture--United States.

Urban agriculture.

Food supply--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Food supply.

Food industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Food industry and trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Growing Hope takes a closer look at how such narratives can carry the promise of a better future in the face of grim realities. It brings together two kinds of narratives that are rarely considered in conjunction: stories about urban community gardening and stories about vegan food justice. It shows that there is much common ground between these movements and that the stories told by them are worth exploring as part of a larger narrative about creating a better and more equitable future. In the United States, this is especially true for the stories told by and about people of color and their historically marginalized communities. Employing an econarratological approach informed by critical food studies, environmental justice ecocriticism, and transmedia studies, Growing Hope explores a selection of narratives about people who fight against food injustice and the ideologies sustaining it: stories about defiant gardening and culinary self-empowerment.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jan 2025).

ISBN:

9781009500548

1009500546

9781009500555

1009500554