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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Cultivating food justice. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011 (DLC) 2011002082 (OCoLC)700205612 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alison Hope Alkon; Julian Agyeman |
| ISBN: | 0262016265 9780262016261 9780262300216 0262300214 1283343711 9781283343718 |
| OCLC Number: | 767579490 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (p. cm.) |
| Contents: | Introduction: the food movement as polyculture / Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman -- A continuing legacy: institutional racism, hunger, and nutritional justice on the Klamath / Kari Marie Norgaard, Ron Reed, and Carolina Van Horn -- From the past to the present: agricultural development and black farmers in the American South / John J. Green, Eleanor M. Green, and Anna M. Kleiner -- Race and regulation: Asian immigrants in California agriculture / Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Nancy Peluso, Jennifer Sowerwine, and Christy Getz -- From industrial garden to food desert: demarcated devaluation in the flatlands of Oakland, California / Nathan McClintock -- Farmworker food insecurity and the production of hunger in California / Sandy Brown and Christy Getz -- Growing food and justice: dismantling racism through sustainable food systems / Alfonso Morales -- Community food security "for us, by us": the Nation of Islam and the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church / Priscilla McCutcheon -- Environmental and food justice: toward local, slow, and deep food systems / Teresa M. Mares and Devon G. Peña -- Vegans of color, racialized embodiment, and problematics of the "exotic" / A. Breeze Harper -- Realizing rural food justice: divergent locals in the Northeastern United States / Jesse C. McEntree -- "If they only knew": the unbearable whiteness of alternative food / Julie Guthman -- Just food? / E. Melanie DuPuis, Jill Lindsey Harrison, and David Goodman -- Food security, food justice, or food sovereignty?: crises, food movements, and regime change / Eric Holt-Giménez -- Conclusion: cultivating the fertile field of food justice / Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman. |
| Series Title: | Food, health, and the environment. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman. |
Abstract:
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.
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"The diversity of theoretical and conceptual approaches, subjects, and authors is refreshing. The dimensions of ethnic identity, racism, and white privilege as they affect the access and control of food-producing resources is highlighted and suggests important new directions in theorizing the political ecology of food and agriculture... The blend of academic and activist chapters provides a good mix of theory, strategy, and tactics." -- Annals of the Association of American Geographers Read more...
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