Description |
xi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Ethnography of food activism / Valeria Siniscalchi and Carole Counihan -- Food activism in western Oregon / Joan E. Gross -- Engaging Latino immigrants in Seattle food activism through urban agriculture / Teresa M. Mares -- Resistance and household food consumption in Santiago de Cuba / Hanna Garth -- Women, gender, and agency in Italian food activism / Carole Counihan -- The movement to reinvigorate local food culture in Kyoto, Japan / Greg de St. Maurice -- French biodynamic viticulture: militancy or market niche? / Marie-France Garcia-Parpet -- Food activism and antimafia cooperatives in contemporary Sicily / Theodoros Rakopoulos -- The Canadian Wheat Board struggle: taking freedom and democracy to market / Birgit Müller -- Brothers in faith: Islamic food activism in Egypt / Nefissa Naguib -- Information and democracy in the global coffee trade / Daniel Reichman -- Cultures of corn and anti-GMO activism in Mexico and Columbia / Elizabeth Fitting -- Peasants' transnational mobilization for food sovereignty in La Vía Campesina / Delphine Thivet -- Oscillating between village and globe: articulating food in Sri Lankan activism / Wim Van Daele -- Slow food activism between politics and economy / Valeria Siniscalchi. |
Subject |
Food supply -- Social aspects.
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Food supply.
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Food industry and trade.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
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Agriculture -- Social aspects.
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Political participation.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. |
Added Author |
Counihan, Carole, 1948-
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Siniscalchi, Valeria.
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ISBN |
9780857858337 |
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0857858335 |
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