The problem with feeding cities : the social transformation of infrastructure, abundance, and inequality in America / Andrew Deener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deener, Andrew, author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--United States.

Food supply.

Food security--United States.

Food security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents an interlocking system of agriculture, manufacturing, shipping, logistics, retailing, and nonprofits that controls what we eat-or don't. 'The Problem with Feeding Cities' is a sociological and historical examination of how this remarkable network of abundance and convenience came into being over the last century. It looks at how the US food system transformed from feeding communities to feeding the entire nation, and it reveals how a process that was once about fulfilling basic needs became focused on satisfying profit margins. It is also a story of how this system fails to feed people, especially in the creation of food deserts.

Contents:

The Transformation of the Food System

The Rise and Fall of the Urban Middlemen

Infrastructural Exclusion

The Bar Code: A Micro-technical Force of Change

Defeating Seasons: Reassembling the Produce Aisle

Cracks in the System

Food Distribution as Unfinished Infrastructure

The Problem with Feeding Cities.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2021).

ISBN:

0-226-70310-X

OCLC:

1181848372