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Book SynopsisFarmers markets have become essential to the movement for food-system reform and are a shining example of a growing green economy where consumers can shop their way to social change. Black, White, and Green brings new energy to this topic by exploring dimensions of race and class as they relate to farmers markets and the green economy.

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Book SynopsisThe 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.Trade Review"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." * Antipode *"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 *"The New Food Activism 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 *Table of ContentsPreface 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

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2021 Edited Collection Book Award, given by the Association for the Study of Food and Society How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist itFrom hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. A Recipe for Gentrification explores this widespread phenomenon, showing the ways in which food and gentrification are deeplyand, at times, controversiallyintertwined. Contributors provide an inside look at gentrification in different cities, from major hubs like New York and Los Angeles to smaller cities like Cleveland and Durham. They examine a wide range of food enterprisesincluding grocery stores, restaurants, community gardens, and farmers' marketsto provide up-to-date perspectives on why gentrification takes place, and how communities use food to push back against displacement. Ultimately, they unpack the consequences for vulnerableTrade ReviewThe authors in this collection not only make a significant contribution to food studies but also create an important and much needed place for food within the scholarship on urban planning and gentrification ... This book should be on the shelves of every trendy coffee shop or bookstore in the neighborhoods examined in this volume, or anywhere in the country that people gather in places made possible at great expense to others because of what gentrification has wrought. * Food, Culture, and Society *This book cleverly weaves together a wide range of ways in which food intersects with gentrification, while the complex issues explored are made accessible to a broad audience. A Recipe for Gentrification will be of interest to food justice scholars and activists; urban researchers and planners; as well as community organizers, small business owners, and allies who seek to deepen their understanding of their own implications in processes of gentrification and social justice. * The AAG Review of Books *The book remains an exciting and tangible exploration of the topics of social justice, urban agriculture, community capacity building, and the right to the city. It can be recommended as an equally engaging entry point for any one of them. * Journal of Cultural Economy *In a short time, food—what we consume and how we consume it, how it's made, where it comes from and how it gets transported—has gone from a frivolous topic for social science research to a significant one. Urban scholars have been paying attention. By looking at actual city spaces, this volume tackles the important issue of the link between food and where we live. Specifically, these chapters address how the ways that food gets made, purchased, and eaten are intertwined with processes of gentrification, giving us a new lens for understanding this complicated form of urban change. Displacement, inequality, community conflict, development policy, and resistance, among many other critical issues, receive insightful analyses from researchers studying an array of food-related activities in several North American cities. Food's implications in and for gentrification is a focus whose time has come, and luckily we now have this volume to start the conversation. -- Richard E. Ocejo, author of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban EconomyThese valuable studies show how food has become the cultural frontier of urban change. From urban farms to farmers’ markets, interactions between food and place empower gentrification but also enable resistance to it. Alerting us to the slippery slope from appropriation to dispossession, the authors make the crucial point that the city’s authenticity depends on diversity more than on good taste. -- Sharon Zukin, author, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban PlacesThis edited volume, focused on the interplay of food, place, and urban gentrification, offers an extensive mix of rich sociological and food-activist discourse that could potentially spark lively discussion in both urban studies and urban planning courses. * CHOICE *The methodological approaches, grounded primarily in ethnography, center people directly impacted by unjust policies and extractive approaches to development…The contributors pushed me to think about the role of scholars in these uneven food systems and gentrification processes, both structurally and culturally. * Gastronomica *A Recipe for Gentrification should be foundational reading for any sociology or food studies scholar and anyone pursuing a career in urban development or real estate.The collection should also be required reading for anyone interested in urban agriculture or community gardens professionally or as a volunteer. * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development *

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2021 Edited Collection Book Award, given by the Association for the Study of Food and Society How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist itFrom hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. A Recipe for Gentrification explores this widespread phenomenon, showing the ways in which food and gentrification are deeplyand, at times, controversiallyintertwined. Contributors provide an inside look at gentrification in different cities, from major hubs like New York and Los Angeles to smaller cities like Cleveland and Durham. They examine a wide range of food enterprisesincluding grocery stores, restaurants, community gardens, and farmers' marketsto provide up-to-date perspectives on why gentrification takes place, and how communities use food to push back against displacement. Ultimately, they unpack the consequences for vulnerableTrade Review"The authors in this collection not only make a significant contribution to food studies but also create an important and much needed place for food within the scholarship on urban planning and gentrification ... This book should be on the shelves of every trendy coffee shop or bookstore in the neighborhoods examined in this volume, or anywhere in the country that people gather in places made possible at great expense to others because of what gentrification has wrought." * Food, Culture, and Society *"This book cleverly weaves together a wide range of ways in which food intersects with gentrification, while the complex issues explored are made accessible to a broad audience. A Recipe for Gentrification will be of interest to food justice scholars and activists; urban researchers and planners; as well as community organizers, small business owners, and allies who seek to deepen their understanding of their own implications in processes of gentrification and social justice." * The AAG Review of Books *"The book remains an exciting and tangible exploration of the topics of social justice, urban agriculture, community capacity building, and the right to the city. It can be recommended as an equally engaging entry point for any one of them." * Journal of Cultural Economy *"In a short time, food—what we consume and how we consume it, how it's made, where it comes from and how it gets transported—has gone from a frivolous topic for social science research to a significant one. Urban scholars have been paying attention. By looking at actual city spaces, this volume tackles the important issue of the link between food and where we live. Specifically, these chapters address how the ways that food gets made, purchased, and eaten are intertwined with processes of gentrification, giving us a new lens for understanding this complicated form of urban change. Displacement, inequality, community conflict, development policy, and resistance, among many other critical issues, receive insightful analyses from researchers studying an array of food-related activities in several North American cities. Food's implications in and for gentrification is a focus whose time has come, and luckily we now have this volume to start the conversation." -- Richard E. Ocejo, author of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy"These valuable studies show how food has become the cultural frontier of urban change. From urban farms to farmers’ markets, interactions between food and place empower gentrification but also enable resistance to it. Alerting us to the slippery slope from appropriation to dispossession, the authors make the crucial point that the city’s authenticity depends on diversity more than on good taste." -- Sharon Zukin, author, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places"This edited volume, focused on the interplay of food, place, and urban gentrification, offers an extensive mix of rich sociological and food-activist discourse that could potentially spark lively discussion in both urban studies and urban planning courses." * CHOICE *"The methodological approaches, grounded primarily in ethnography, center people directly impacted by unjust policies and extractive approaches to development…The contributors pushed me to think about the role of scholars in these uneven food systems and gentrification processes, both structurally and culturally." * Gastronomica *"A Recipe for Gentrification should be foundational reading for any sociology or food studies scholar and anyone pursuing a career in urban development or real estate.The collection should also be required reading for anyone interested in urban agriculture or community gardens professionally or as a volunteer." * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development *

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