Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability (Food, Health, and the Environment)
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262516322 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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JAS said Critical Addition to Food Justice Scholarship and Activism. Alkon and Agyeman have done a masterful job compiling the chapters that make up Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability. Although there have been a smattering of articles employing the "food justice" concept over the past five years, it was not until last year that Gottlieb and Joshi published the book Food Justice, also on MIT Press. Cultivating Food Justice builds off of this book by providing a critical expositi. Five Stars Thought provoking.. M. L. Wilkinson said Five Stars. Excellent!
Cultivating Food Justice describes their efforts to envision and create environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives to the food system. These communities have been actively prevented from producing their own food and often live in "food deserts" where fast food is more common than fresh food. The studies offered in the book explore a range of important issues, including agricultural and land use policies that systematically disadvantage Native American, African American, Latino/a, and Asian American farmers and farmworkers; access problems in both urban and rural areas; efforts to create sustainable local food systems in low-income communities of color; and future directions for the food justice movement. Bringing together insights from studies of environmental justice, sustainable agriculture, critical race theory, and food studies, Cultivating Food Justice highlights the ways race and class inequalities permeate the food system, from production to distribution to consumption. Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many low-income neighborhoods and communities of co
(Nik Heynen, Department of Geography and Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR), University of Georgia)The diversity of theoretical and conceptual approaches, subjects, and authors is refreshing. I could not agree more. It is a must-read for anybody interested in food politics and environmental justice. The chapters in this splendid and rigorously researched book will help those conversations be better informed, and their outcomes wiser. (Annals of the Association of American Geographers)The answers to our food system ills are not found simply in opposition to our current food system; community solutions that incorporate racial justice, from production to consumption, are required. (Rachel S. The insights in this book provide a foundation and direction for food system planners. Race, class, and history aren't foodie strong-points. As facilitators of community building,
. Alison Hope Alkon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Pacific. Julian Agyeman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University