{"product_id":"the-new-food-activism-9780520292147","title":"The New Food Activism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe New Food Activism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" * Antipode *\u003cbr\u003e\"A shrewdly curated call to action... By depicting the diversity of opposition to conventional food systems and with keen depth of discussion, Alkon and Guthman stoke the embers of the change that has been smoldering for decades within the food system, demonstrating means of resistance that all new activists should emulate.\" * Graduate Journal of Food Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe New Food Activism\u003c\/i\u003e is both relevant and timely to ongoing academic conversations about food justice and the alternative food movement within the United States. . . . While this book adds to the critique of the alternative food movement by highlighting the ways in which it is apolitical and nonstrategic, its biggest impact is the illustration of the power of activism that is strategic, political, and collaborative.\" * Agriculture and Human Values *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   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","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402888683863,"sku":"9780520292147","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520292147.jpg?v=1730481781","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-new-food-activism-9780520292147","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}