Julie Guthman & Alison Alkon 
The New Food Activism [EPUB ebook] 
Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action

The 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.

Table des matières

Preface


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

A propos de l’auteur

Alison Hope Alkon is Associate Professor of Sociology and cofounder of the master’s degree program in food studies at the University of the Pacific. She is the author of Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy and coeditor of Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability. Julie Guthman is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California and Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism.