{"product_id":"the-fight-over-food-producers-consumers-and-activists-challenge-the-global-food-system-rural-studies-rural-studies-hardcover-9780271032740","title":"The Fight Over Food Producers Consumers and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of essays which analyze and evaluate both the theoretical and historical contexts of the agrifood system and the ways in which trends of individual action and collective activity have led to an \"accumulation of resistance\" that greatly affects the mainstream market of food production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The categorization of the essays and the overarching theme of agency results in a balanced approach, avoiding easy tropes or doomsday scenarios. Individual essays are consistently sound in scholarship.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—J. M. Deutsch \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book will help students enter into discussions of agency in the sociology of agriculture; the issues it raises make it worthwhile reading for anyone interested in promoting real structural change within the agriculture and food system.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jessica Bagdonis \u003ci\u003eGastronomica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“How will we feed ourselves in the future? Who will decide? Can people acting together make a difference in the food system to come? This book takes up the key sociological questions of structure and agency in addressing these questions. It moves beyond abstract debates, applying the structure\/agency lens to a most important human system—the one that produces and distributes our food. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Fight Over Food \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates possibilities for change in the food system and simultaneously reminds us of the constraints of global capitalism. This book will be of interest not only to sociologists who study food and agriculture, but to all students of social change within a variety of disciplines. \u003ci\u003eThe Fight Over Food \u003c\/i\u003epoints us in directions for our engagement both as scholars and as citizens of the world who care about food.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Patricia Allen \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Fighting Over Food: Change in the Agrifood System\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWynne Wright and Gerad Middendorf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I. Conceptual Framework\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tAgency and Resistance in the Sociology of Agriculture and Food\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlessandro Bonanno and Douglas H. Constance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.\tAgency and the Agrifood System\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam H. Friedland \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\tResistance, Agency, and Counterwork: A Theoretical Positioning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorman Long\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II. Case Studies: Making Room for Agency\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\tCounterhegemony or Bourgeois Piggery? Food Politics and the Case of FoodShare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosée Johnston\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\tResistance, Redistribution, and Power in the Fair Trade Banana Initiative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAimee Shreck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.\tSustaining Outrage: Cultural Capital, Strategic Location, and Motivating Sensibilities in the U.S. Anti-Genetic Engineering Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam A. Munro and Rachel A. Schurman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.\tSocial Life and Transformation in Salmon Fisheries and Aquaculture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Skladany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III. Case Studies: Constraints to Agency\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.\tInfertile Ground: The Struggle for a New Puerto Rican Food System\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Guptill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.\tPossibilities for Revitalizing Local Agriculture: Evidence from Four Counties in Washington State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaymond A. Jussaume Jr. and Kazumi Kondoh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.\tConsumers and Citizens in the Global Agrifood System: The Cases of New Zealand and South Africa in the Global Red Meat Chain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeiko Tanaka and Elizabeth Ransom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: From Mindful Eating to Structural Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWynne Wright and Gerad Middendorf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400782782807,"sku":"9780271032740","price":58.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-fight-over-food-producers-consumers-and-activists-challenge-the-global-food-system-rural-studies-rural-studies-hardcover-9780271032740","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}