Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability Contributor(s): Alkon, Alison Hope (Editor), Agyeman, Julian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0262516322 ISBN-13: 9780262516327 Publisher: MIT Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2011 Click for more in this series: Food, Health, and the Environment |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Agriculture & Food - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
Dewey: 363.809 |
LCCN: 2011002082 |
Age Level: 18-UP |
Grade Level: 13-UP |
Series: Food, Health, and the Environment |
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.35" W x 8.97" L (1.20 lbs) 404 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives. 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 color have been systematically deprived of access to healthy and sustainable food. 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. Cultivating Food Justice describes their efforts to envision and create environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives to the food system. 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. 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. These diverse accounts of the relationships among food, environmentalism, justice, race, and identity will help guide efforts to achieve a just and sustainable agriculture. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alkon, Alison Hope: - Alison Hope Alkon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Pacific.Gottlieb, Robert: - Robert Gottlieb is Emeritus Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy and founder and former Director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. He is the author of Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press) and other books.Alkon, Alison Hope: - Alison Hope Alkon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Pacific.Norgaard, Kari Marie: - Kari Marie Norgaard is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon.Harrison, Jill Lindsey: - Jill Lindsey Harrison is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.Goodman, David: - David Goodman is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Agyeman, Julian: - Julian Agyeman is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. He is the coauthor of Sharing Cities and the coeditor of Cultivating Food Justice and Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice, each published by the MIT Press.Agyeman, Julian: - Julian Agyeman is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. He is the coauthor of Sharing Cities and the coeditor of Cultivating Food Justice and Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice, each published by the MIT Press.Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne: - Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern is Assistant Professor of Food Studies and Affiliate of the Departments of Geography and Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. |
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