Community Food Initiatives
A Critical Reparative Approach
$123.22
- Paperback
220 pages
- Release Date
28 November 2024
Summary
This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations.
While community food initiatives aim to tackle issues like food security, food waste, or food poverty, it is a cause for concern for many when they are framed as the next big “solution” to the problems of the current industrialised food system. They have been critiqued for being too neoliberal, elitist, and localist; for not challenging structural ineq…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032049038 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032049030 |
| Author: | Oona Morrow, Esther Veen, Stefan Wahlen |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 220 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment |
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Critics Review
“Now, more than ever, we need to recognise and support just and sustainable community food initiatives. This book brings important issues of maintaining hope while staying with the trouble of enacting community food initiatives in a fair and just manner. It opens up our attention to matters of justice around food including as well as beyond procedural and distributional issues to essential matters of reparation.”
Anna R. Davies, FTCD, MRIA, Professor of Geography, Environment & Society, Director Environmental Governance Research Group, Department of Geography, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
“How do the stories we tell about community food initiatives highlight or narrow their multiple ways of making culture and transforming political possibilities? This wide-ranging and comprehensively edited volume offers a variety of case studies that demonstrate the transformative work that community food initiatives envision and enact without shying away from acknowledging the ways that racial capitalism, hetero-patriarchy and neoliberalism constrain their approaches. This book reminds us that community food initiatives have much to offer as we combat the intersecting and inextricable social, environmental, and public health crises that shape this precarious moment.”
Alison Hope Alkon, Professor of Sociology, University of the Pacific
Oona Morrow
Oona Morrow is an assistant professor of rural sociology at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
Esther Veen is a professor of urban food issues at Aeres University of Applied Sciences Almere, the Netherlands.
Stefan Wahlen is a professor of food sociology at the University of Giessen, Germany.
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