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Title Food activism : agency, democracy and economy / edited by Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi.

Publication Information London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
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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.
Food supply.
Food industry and trade.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
Agriculture -- Social aspects.
Political participation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
Added Author Counihan, Carole, 1948-
Siniscalchi, Valeria.
ISBN 9780857858337
0857858335