Food activism
Subtitle: agency, democracy and economy
By: edited by Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780857858337; 9780857858320; 9780857858344
Subjects: Food supply; Social aspects; Food industry and trade; Agriculture; Economic aspects; Political participation; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Description: "Across the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of local food varieties, and negative health consequences. In this collection leading international anthropologists explore food activism across the globe to show how people speak to, negotiate, or cope with power through food. Who are the actors of food activism and what forms of agency do they enact? What kinds of economy, exchanges, and market relations do they practice and promote? How are they organized and what are their scales of political action and power relations? Each chapter explores why and how people choose food as a means of forging social and economic justice, covering diverse forms of food activism from individual acts by consumers or producers to organized social groups or movements. The case studies embrace a wide geographical spectrum including Cuba, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Mexico, Italy, Canada, France, Colombia, Japan, and the USA. This is the first book to examine food activism in diverse local, national, and transnational settings, making it  essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology and other fields interested in food, economy, politics and social change"--

"Across the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of local food varieties, and negative health consequences. In this collection leading international anthropologists explore food activism across the globe to show how people speak to, negotiate, or cope with power through food. Who are the actors of food activism and what forms of agency do they enact? What kinds of economy, exchanges, and market relations do they practice and promote? How are they organized and what are their scales of political action and power relations? Each chapter explores why and how people choose food as a means of forging social and economic justice, covering diverse forms of food activism from individual acts by consumers or producers to organized social groups or movements. The case studies embrace a wide geographical spectrum including Cuba, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Mexico, Italy, Canada, France, Colombia, Japan, and the USA. This is the first book to examine food activism in diverse local, national, and transnational settings, making it essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology and other fields interested in food, economy, politics and social change"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: IntroductionEthnography of Food Activism - Valeria Siniscalchi, École Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales, France and Carole Counihan, Millersville University, USALocal EngagementsFood Activism in Western Oregon - Joan E. Gross, Oregon State University, USAEngaging Latino Immigrants in Seattle Food Activism - Teresa M. Mares, University of Vermont, USAResistance and Household Food Consumption in Santiago De Cuba - Hanna Garth, University of California at Los Angeles, USAWomen, Gender and Food Activism in Italy - Carole Counihan, Millersville University, USAThe Movement to Reinvigorate Local Food Culture in Kyoto, Japan - Greg De St. Maurice, University of Pittsburgh, USANational ActionsFrench Biodynamic Viticulture: Militancy or Market Niche? - Marie-France Garcia Parpet, Institut De La Recherche Agronomique, FranceSicilian 'Antimafia' Food Production Cooperatives - Theodoros Rakopoulos, Goldsmiths College London, UKThe Canadian Wheat Board Struggle: Taking Freedom and Democracy to Market - Birgit Müller, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, FranceBrothers in Faith: Islamic Food Activism in Egypt - Nefissa Naguib, University of Bergen, NorwayTransnational NetworksInformation, Transparency and Democracy in the Global Coffee Trade - Daniel Reichman, University of Rochester, USA"Cultures of Corn" and Anti-GM Activism in Mexico and Colombia - Elizabeth Fitting, Dalhousie University, CanadaPeasants' Transnational Mobilization for Food Sovereignty in La Vi;a Campesina - Delphine Thivet, École Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales, FranceOscillating Between Village and Globe: Articulating Food in Sri Lankan Activism - Wim Van Daele, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BelgiumSlow Food Activism Between Politics and Economy - Valeria Siniscalchi, École Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales, France BibliographyIndex.