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The Fight Over Food: Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System

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Description for The Fight Over Food: Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System Hardback. Editor(s): Wright, Wynne; Middendorf, Gerad. Num Pages: 312 pages, 3 illustrations/1 map. BIC Classification: JFFT; JPW; KNAC; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 535.

“One problem with the food system is that price is the bottom line rather than having the bottom line be land stewardship, an appreciation for the environmental and social value of small-scale family farms, or for organically grown produce.” —Interview with farmer in Skagit County, Washington

For much of the later twentieth century, food has been abundant and convenient for most residents of advanced industrial societies. The luxury of taking the safety and dependability of food for granted pushed it to the back burner in the consciousness of many. Increasingly, however, this once taken-for-granted food system is coming under question on ... Read more

The essays found in The Fight Over Food analyze and evaluate both the theoretical and historical contexts of the agrifood system and the ways in which trends of individual action and collective activity have led to an “accumulation of resistance” that greatly affects the mainstream market of food production. The overarching theme that integrates the case studies is the idea of human agency and the ways in which people purposefully and creatively generate new forms of action or resistance to facilitate social changes within the structure of predominant cultural norms. Together these studies examine whether these combined efforts will have the strength to create significant and enduring transformations in the food system.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271032740
SKU
V9780271032740
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About Wynne Wright (Ed.)
Wynne Wright is Assistant Professor of Community, Food, and Agriculture at Michigan State University Gerad Middendorf is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University.

Reviews for The Fight Over Food: Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System
“The categorization of the essays and the overarching theme of agency results in a balanced approach, avoiding easy tropes or doomsday scenarios. Individual essays are consistently sound in scholarship.” —J. M. Deutsch Choice “This book will help students enter into discussions of agency in the sociology of agriculture; the issues it raises make it worthwhile reading for anyone interested ... Read more

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