Food Justice Now!: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle - Couverture souple

Sbicca, Joshua

 
9781517904012: Food Justice Now!: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1517904013 ISBN 13 : 9781517904012
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2018

Synopsis

A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates


The United States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their overwhelming concern for what they consume often hinders their engagement with social justice more broadly. Food Justice Now! charts a path from food activism to social justice activism that integrates the two. It calls on the food-focused to broaden and deepen their commitment to the struggle against structural inequalities both within and beyond the food system.

In an engrossing, historically grounded, and ethnographically rich narrative, Joshua Sbicca argues that food justice is more than just a myopic focus on food, allowing scholars and activists alike to investigate the causes behind inequities and evaluate and implement political strategies to overcome them. Focusing on carceral, labor, and immigration crises, Sbicca tells the stories of three California-based food movement organizations, showing that when activists use food to confront neoliberal capitalism and institutional racism, they can creatively expand how to practice and achieve food justice.

Sbicca sets his central argument in opposition to apolitical and individual solutions, discussing national food movement campaigns and the need for economically and racially just food policies--a matter of vital public concern with deep implications for building collective power across a diversity of interests.

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À propos de l?auteur

Joshua Sbicca is assistant professor of sociology at Colorado State University.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1517904013
ISBN 13 
9781517904012
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1517904005 ISBN 13 :  9781517904005
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2018
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