Food Activism
Food Activism Across the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of local food varieties, and negative health…
Specifikacia Food Activism
Food Activism
Across the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of local food varieties, and negative health consequences. What kinds of economy, exchanges, and market relations do they practice and promote? In this collection leading international anthropologists explore food activism across the globe to show how people speak to, negotiate, or cope with power through food.Who are the actors of food activism and what forms of agency do they enact?
Each chapter explores why and how people choose food as a means of forging social and economic justice, covering diverse forms of food activism from individual acts by consumers or producers to organized social groups or movements. How are they organized and what are their scales of political action and power relations? The case studies embrace a wide geographical