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Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia - Place, Taste, and Community (Hardcover)
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Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia - Place, Taste, and Community (Hardcover)
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With her new book, Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia,
cultural anthropologist Carole Counihan makes a significant
contribution to understanding the growing global movement for food
democracy. Providing a detailed ethnographic case study from
Cagliari, the capital of the Italian island-region of Sardinia, she
draws upon Sardinians' own descriptions of their actions and
motivations to change their food as they pursue grassroots
alternatives to the agro-industrial food system through GAS (Gruppi
di Acquisito Solidale or solidarity-based purchase groups), organic
and urban agriculture, alternative restaurants, and farm-to-school
programs. They link their activism to the sensory and emotional
resonance of food and its nostalgic connections to place,
tradition, and culture. They stress the importance of education
through experience, and they build relationships and networks
through workshops, farm visits, and commensality. The book focuses
on three key themes to emerge in interviews with Cagliari food
activists: the significance of territorio (or place), the
importance of taste, and the role of education. By exploring these
areas of concern, Counihan uncovers key tensions in consumption as
a force for change, in individual vs. group actions, and in
political and economic power relations, which are of crucial
importance to wider global efforts to promote food democracy.
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