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The New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts to improve workers’ pay and conditions throughout the food system, and ways to push food activism beyond its typical reliance on individualism, consumerism, and private property. The authors challenge and advance existing discourse on consumer trends, food movements, and the intersection of food with racial and economic inequalities.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 344
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
27 June 2017
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520292130
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
"The New Food Activism is a valuable contribution to critical food studies that raises important questions about what kind of food system we, as scholars, organizers, eaters and workers want to see and how we are going to get there."
Alison Hope Alkon is Associate Professor of Sociology and cofounder of the master’s degree program in food studies at the University of the Pacific. She is the author of Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy and coeditor of Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability.
Julie Guthman is a geographer and Distinguished Professor in Sociology at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her previous books include Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry.
Julie Guthman is a geographer and Distinguished Professor in Sociology at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her previous books include Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry.
Preface
1 • Introduction 1
Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman
Part One
Regulatory Campaigns
2 • Taking a Different Tack: Pesticide Regulatory-Reform Activism in California
Jill Lindsey Harrison
3 • How Canadian Farmers Fought and Won the Battle against GM Wheat
Emily Eaton
4 • How Midas Lost Its Golden Touch: Neoliberalism and Activist Strategy in the Demise of Methyl Iodide in California
Julie Guthman and Sandy Brown
Part Two
Working For Workers
5 • Resetting the “Good Food” Table: Labor and Food Justice Alliances in Los Angeles
Joshua Sbicca
6 • Food Workers and Consumers Organizing Together for Food Justice
Joann Lo and Biko Koenig
7 • Farmworker-Led Food Movements Then and Now: United Farm Workers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and the Potential for Farm Labor Justice
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
Part Three
Collective Practices
8 • Collective Purchase: Food Cooperatives and Their Pursuit of Justice
Andrew Zitcer
9 • Cooperative Social Practices, Self-Determination, and the Struggle for Food Justice in Oakland and Chicago
Meleiza Figueroa and Alison Hope Alkon
10 • Urban Agriculture, Food Justice, and Neoliberal Urbanization: Rebuilding the Institution of Property
Michelle Glowa
11 • Boston’s Emerging Food Solidarity Economy
Penn Loh and Julian Agyeman
12 • Grounding the U.S. Food Movement: Bringing Land into Food Justice
Tanya M. Kerssen and Zoe W. Brent
13 • Conclusion: A New Food Politics
Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman
Contributors
Index
1 • Introduction 1
Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman
Part One
Regulatory Campaigns
2 • Taking a Different Tack: Pesticide Regulatory-Reform Activism in California
Jill Lindsey Harrison
3 • How Canadian Farmers Fought and Won the Battle against GM Wheat
Emily Eaton
4 • How Midas Lost Its Golden Touch: Neoliberalism and Activist Strategy in the Demise of Methyl Iodide in California
Julie Guthman and Sandy Brown
Part Two
Working For Workers
5 • Resetting the “Good Food” Table: Labor and Food Justice Alliances in Los Angeles
Joshua Sbicca
6 • Food Workers and Consumers Organizing Together for Food Justice
Joann Lo and Biko Koenig
7 • Farmworker-Led Food Movements Then and Now: United Farm Workers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and the Potential for Farm Labor Justice
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
Part Three
Collective Practices
8 • Collective Purchase: Food Cooperatives and Their Pursuit of Justice
Andrew Zitcer
9 • Cooperative Social Practices, Self-Determination, and the Struggle for Food Justice in Oakland and Chicago
Meleiza Figueroa and Alison Hope Alkon
10 • Urban Agriculture, Food Justice, and Neoliberal Urbanization: Rebuilding the Institution of Property
Michelle Glowa
11 • Boston’s Emerging Food Solidarity Economy
Penn Loh and Julian Agyeman
12 • Grounding the U.S. Food Movement: Bringing Land into Food Justice
Tanya M. Kerssen and Zoe W. Brent
13 • Conclusion: A New Food Politics
Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman
Contributors
Index