The Fight Over Food Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System

The Fight Over Food Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System / edited by Wynne Wright and Gerad Middendorf.

"For much of the later twentieth century, food has been abundant and convenient for most residents of advanced industrial societies. The luxury of taking the safety and dependability of food for granted pushed it to the back burner in the consciousness of many. Increasingly, however, this once...

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Other Authors: Middendorf, Gerad, Wright, Wynne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2008.
Series:Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)
Subjects:
Agriculture > Social aspects.
Food supply > Social aspects.
Agriculture > Social aspects
Food supply > Social aspects
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Fighting Over Food: Change in the Agrifood System
  • Part I. Conceptual Framework
  • 1. Agency and Resistance in the Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • 2. Agency and the Agrifood System
  • 3. Resistance, Agency, and Counterwork: A Theoretical Positioning
  • Part II. Case Studies: Making Room for Agency
  • 4. Counterhegemony or Bourgeois Piggery? Food Politics and the Case of FoodShare
  • 5. Resistance, Redistribution, and Power in the Fair Trade Banana Initiative
  • 6. Sustaining Outrage: Cultural Capital, Strategic Location, and Motivating Sensibilities in the U.S. Anti-Genetic Engineering Movement
  • 7. Social Life and Transformation in Salmon Fisheries and Aquaculture
  • Part III. Case Studies: Constraints to Agency
  • 8. Infertile Ground: The Struggle for a New Puerto Rican Food System
  • 9. Possibilities for Revitalizing Local Agriculture: Evidence from Four Counties in Washington State
  • 10. Consumers and Citizens in the Global Agrifood System: The Cases of New Zealand and South Africa in the Global Red Meat Chain
  • Conclusion: From Mindful Eating to Structural Change
  • Index.

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