Alternative Food Networks - Knowledge, Practice, and Politics (Hardcover, New)

Farmers' markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods---how have these once novel, "alternative" foods and the people and networks supporting them become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these foods crowd supermarket shelves and other "mainstream" shopping outlets? This timely book provides a critical review of the growth of alternative food networks and their struggle to defend their ethical and aesthetic values against the standardising pressures of the corporate mainstream with their "placeless and nameless" global supply networks. It explores how these alternative movements are "making a difference" and their possible role as fears of global climate change and food insecurity continue to intensify. It reviews the different positions around these networks from three major arenas of food activism and politics: Britain and Western Europe, the United States, and the global Fair Trade economy. This comparative perspective runs throughout the book to fully explore the progressive erosion of the interface between alternative and mainstream food provisioning. Discussions of the limitations of market-led social change and its analysis of the future of alternative food economies and localist food politics as the era of "cheap food" based on open international commodity markets draws to a close placing this book at the cutting-edge of the field. The book is thoroughly informed by contemporary social theory and interdisciplinary social scientific scholarship, formulating an original integrative framework to understand alternative food production-consumption and offers a unique geographical reach in its case studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies of Gastronomy, Food and Drink
Release date:	July 2011
First published:	2012
Authors:	David Goodman • E.Melanie DuPuis • Michael K Goodman
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	308
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-67146-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	0-415-67146-9
Barcode:	9780415671460

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