{"product_id":"life-on-the-other-border-9780520295735","title":"Life on the Other Border","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mares’s book contributes enormously to the fields of critical ethnography, borderland studies, and immigration studies,\u003cbr\u003e and would be an excellent addition to any classroom or public discussion of labor rights and food justice.\" * Gastronomica *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Mares] successfully conveys the importance and value that agricultural laborers bring to our food system, and how their identities are often erased from the consumer experience further down the value chain.\" * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development *\u003cbr\u003e\"The most significant contribution of the book is its artful balance of structural vulnerability and agency. . . . This is not just another tale of im\/migrant worker woe—rather, we see how farmworker-led activism, and university-community partner-\u003cbr\u003e ships, can make progress toward food justice, even in the oppressive context of the 'other' borderlands.\" * Anthropology of Work Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables and Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBordering Visible Bodies\u003cbr\u003e A Distinctive Rural Place?\u003cbr\u003e Farmworker Injustice Grows in Every Field\u003cbr\u003e Harvesting a Different Product: What Makes Dairy\u003cbr\u003e Work Unique\u003cbr\u003e It’s Not Just about the Numbers\u003cbr\u003e Migrating through the Chapters to Come\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 • Vulnerability and Visibility in the Northern Borderlands\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBorder Violence and Vulnerability\u003cbr\u003e “There’s No Mexicans in Vermont!”\u003cbr\u003e There Are Indeed Mexicans in Vermont\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Encerrado\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trump Effect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 • More than Money: Extending the Meanings and\u003cbr\u003e Methodologies of Farmworker Food Security\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving with Food Insecurity on Both Sides of the Border\u003cbr\u003e Feeding the Nation but Not Being Fed\u003cbr\u003e Measuring the Immeasurable? Assessing Dairy Worker Food Insecurity\u003cbr\u003e with the (Quantitative) Tools at Hand\u003cbr\u003e Telling the Stories of Food Insecurity When Numbers Fall Short\u003cbr\u003e Food Insecurity Crosses All Borders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 • Cultivating Food Sovereignty Where There Are Few Choices\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrowing a Project from Seed\u003cbr\u003e Immigrant Gardens as Fertile Ground for Food Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e They Tried to Bury Us—They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds\u003cbr\u003e Challenging Cultural Borders through Experiential Learning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 • They Are Out, They Are Looking: Providing Goods and\u003cbr\u003e Services under Surveillance\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWIC: From Door-to-Door Delivery to EBT\u003cbr\u003e Doing a Lot with Very Little in the Field of Public Health\u003cbr\u003e Trunks Full of Banana Leaves and Phone Cards: The Individuals\u003cbr\u003e Serving the Farmworker Community\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 • Resilience and Resistance in the Movement for Just Food and Work\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNavigating the Roles of Researcher and Activist\u003cbr\u003e A Timeline of Accomplishments—and Setbacks\u003cbr\u003e Immigrant Rights Are Human Rights!\u003cbr\u003e (Something Other than) Reform or Revolution?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Promise and Complications of Doing Ethnography at Home\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Visibility in the Borderlands\u003cbr\u003e The Everyday Meanings of Food Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e The Transformative Potential of Worker-Led Food Movements\u003cbr\u003e Some Final Thoughts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Farmworkers\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Service Providers\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402896286039,"sku":"9780520295735","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520295735.jpg?v=1730481800","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-on-the-other-border-9780520295735","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}