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Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from
multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements - including the
different articulations of local, food miles, seasonality, food
justice, food knowledge and food sovereignty - consistently invoke
themes around autonomy, sufficiency, cooperation, mutual aid,
freedom, and responsibility. In this stimulating and provocative
book the authors link these issues to utopias and intentional
communities. Using a food utopias framework presented in the
introduction, they examine food stories in three interrelated and
complementary ways: utopias as critique of existing systems;
utopias as engagement with experimentation of the novel, the
forgotten, and the hopeful in the future of the food system; and
utopias as process that recognizes the time and difficulty inherent
in changing the status quo. The chapters address theoretical
aspects of food utopias and also present case studies from a range
of contexts and regions, including Argentina, Italy, Switzerland
and USA. These focus on key issues in contemporary food studies
including equity, locality, the sacred, citizenship, community and
food sovereignty. Food utopias offers ways forward to imagine a
creative and convivial food system.
Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology
of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive
introduction to the study of food and society. The book begins by
examining the food economy, with chapters focusing on foodscapes,
the financialization of food, and a new chapter dedicated to food
and nutrition (in)security. In Part II, the book addresses
community and culture. While some books only look at the
interrelationships between food and culture, this section
problematizes the food system from the standpoint of marginalized
bodies. It contains chapters focusing on agricultural and food
labor and the peasantries, topics which are often overlooked, and
gender, ethnicity, and poverty. Part III examines food and the
environment, with chapters addressing important topics such as
agro-ecosystems, food justice, sustainable food, and agriculture
and food sovereignty. The final part focuses on food futures and
includes a brand-new chapter on sustainable diets and ethical
consumption. The book concludes by showcasing how we can rethink
food production and consumption in a way that can help heal social,
political, and cultural divisions. All chapters draw on
international case studies and include learning objectives,
suggested discussion questions, and recommendations for further
reading to aid student learning. The Sociology of Food and
Agriculture is perfect for students of food studies, including food
justice, food and nutrition security, sustainable diets, food
sovereignty, environmental sociology, agriculture, and cultural
studies.
Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology
of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive
introduction to the study of food and society. The book begins by
examining the food economy, with chapters focusing on foodscapes,
the financialization of food, and a new chapter dedicated to food
and nutrition (in)security. In Part II, the book addresses
community and culture. While some books only look at the
interrelationships between food and culture, this section
problematizes the food system from the standpoint of marginalized
bodies. It contains chapters focusing on agricultural and food
labor and the peasantries, topics which are often overlooked, and
gender, ethnicity, and poverty. Part III examines food and the
environment, with chapters addressing important topics such as
agro-ecosystems, food justice, sustainable food, and agriculture
and food sovereignty. The final part focuses on food futures and
includes a brand-new chapter on sustainable diets and ethical
consumption. The book concludes by showcasing how we can rethink
food production and consumption in a way that can help heal social,
political, and cultural divisions. All chapters draw on
international case studies and include learning objectives,
suggested discussion questions, and recommendations for further
reading to aid student learning. The Sociology of Food and
Agriculture is perfect for students of food studies, including food
justice, food and nutrition security, sustainable diets, food
sovereignty, environmental sociology, agriculture, and cultural
studies.
Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the
political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider
examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural
sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be
summarized as: 'more than human' approaches to economic life; a
'post-structural political economy' of food and agriculture; and
calls for more 'enactive', performative research approaches. This
volume describes the genealogy of such approaches, drawing on the
reflective insights of more than five years of international
engagement and research. It demonstrates the kinds of new work
being generated under these approaches and provides a means for
exploring how they should be all understood as part of the same
broader need to review theory and methods in the study of food,
agriculture, rural development and economic geography. This radical
collective approach is elaborated as the Biological Economies
approach. The authors break out from traditional categories of
analysis, reconceptualising materialities, and reframing economic
assemblages as biological economies, based on the notion of all
research being enactive or performative.
Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from
multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements - including the
different articulations of local, food miles, seasonality, food
justice, food knowledge and food sovereignty - consistently invoke
themes around autonomy, sufficiency, cooperation, mutual aid,
freedom, and responsibility. In this stimulating and provocative
book the authors link these issues to utopias and intentional
communities. Using a food utopias framework presented in the
introduction, they examine food stories in three interrelated and
complementary ways: utopias as critique of existing systems;
utopias as engagement with experimentation of the novel, the
forgotten, and the hopeful in the future of the food system; and
utopias as process that recognizes the time and difficulty inherent
in changing the status quo. The chapters address theoretical
aspects of food utopias and also present case studies from a range
of contexts and regions, including Argentina, Italy, Switzerland
and USA. These focus on key issues in contemporary food studies
including equity, locality, the sacred, citizenship, community and
food sovereignty. Food utopias offers ways forward to imagine a
creative and convivial food system.
Do you really think you are getting a good deal when given that
free mobile phone for switching service providers, if a
multinational retailer undercuts its competitors or by the fact
that food is relatively cheaper today in many countries than ever
before? Think again! As Michael Carolan clearly shows in this
compelling book, cheapness is an illusion. The real cost of low
prices is alarmingly high. It is shown for example that citizens
are frequently subsidising low prices through welfare support to
poorly-paid workers in their own country, or relying on the
exploitation of workers in poor countries for cheap goods.
Environmental pollution may not be costed into goods and services,
but is paid for indirectly by people living away from its source or
by future generations. Even with private cars, when the total costs
of this form of mobility are tallied it proves to be an
astronomically expensive model of transportation. All of these
costs need to be accounted for. The author captures these issues by
the concept of "cheaponomics". The key point is that costs and
risks are socialised: we all pay for cheapness, but not at the
point of purchase. Drawing on a wide range of examples and issues
from over-consumption and waste to over-work, unemployment,
inequality, and the depersonalising of communities, it is
convincingly shown that cheapness can no longer be seen as such a
bargain. Instead we need to refocus for a better sense of
well-being, social justice and a balanced approach to prosperity.
Do you really think you are getting a good deal when given that
free mobile phone for switching service providers, if a
multinational retailer undercuts its competitors or by the fact
that food is relatively cheaper today in many countries than ever
before? Think again! As Michael Carolan clearly shows in this
compelling book, cheapness is an illusion. The real cost of low
prices is alarmingly high. It is shown for example that citizens
are frequently subsidising low prices through welfare support to
poorly-paid workers in their own country, or relying on the
exploitation of workers in poor countries for cheap goods.
Environmental pollution may not be costed into goods and services,
but is paid for indirectly by people living away from its source or
by future generations. Even with private cars, when the total costs
of this form of mobility are tallied it proves to be an
astronomically expensive model of transportation. All of these
costs need to be accounted for. The author captures these issues by
the concept of "cheaponomics". The key point is that costs and
risks are socialised: we all pay for cheapness, but not at the
point of purchase. Drawing on a wide range of examples and issues
from over-consumption and waste to over-work, unemployment,
inequality, and the depersonalising of communities, it is
convincingly shown that cheapness can no longer be seen as such a
bargain. Instead we need to refocus for a better sense of
well-being, social justice and a balanced approach to prosperity.
This handbook includes contributions from established and emerging
scholars from around the world and draws on multiple approaches and
subjects to explore the socio-economic, cultural, ecological,
institutional, legal, and policy aspects of regenerative food
practices. The future of food is uncertain. We are facing an
overwhelming number of interconnected and complex challenges
related to the ways we grow, distribute, access, eat, and dispose
of food. Yet, there are stories of hope and opportunities for
radical change towards food systems that enhance the ability of
living things to co-evolve. Given this, activities and imaginaries
looking to improve, rather than just sustain, communities and
ecosystems are needed, as are fresh perspectives and new
terminology. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative
Food Systems addresses this need. The chapters cover diverse
practices, geographies, scales, and entry-points. They focus not
only on the core requirements to deliver sustainable agriculture
and food supply, but go beyond this to think about how these can
also actively participate with social-ecological systems. The book
is presented in an accessible way, with reflection questions meant
to spark discussion and debate on how to transition to safe, just,
and healthy food systems. Taken together, the chapters in this
handbook highlight the consequences of current food practices and
showcase the multiple ways that people are doing food differently.
The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems
is essential reading for students and scholars interested in food
systems, governance and practices, agroecology, rural sociology,
and socio-environmental studies.
A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch
ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food.
While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body
politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from
here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy
among people with very little ideological common ground possible?
In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these
fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our
dinner tables, along the aisles of our supermarkets, and in the
fields growing our fruits and vegetables. What is more common,
after all, than the simple fact that we all need to eat? This book
is the result of Carolan's career-long efforts to create
simulations in which food could be used to build empathy, among
even the staunchest of rivals. Though most people assume that
presenting facts will sway the way the public behaves, time and
again this assumption is proven wrong as we all selectively accept
the facts that support our beliefs. Drawing on the data he has
collected, Carolan argues that we must, instead, find places and
practices where incivility—or worse, hate—is suspended and
leverage those opportunities into tools for building social
cohesion. Each chapter follows the individuals who participated in
a given experiment, ranging from strawberry-picking, attempting to
subsist on SNAP benefits, or attending a dinner of wild game. By
engaging with participants before, during, and after, Carolan is
able to document their remarkable shifts in attitude and opinion.
Though this book is framed around food, it is really about the
spaces opened up by our need for food, in our communities, in our
homes, and, ultimately, in our minds.
This thought-provoking but accessible book critically examines the
dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether
we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food
affords us. Detailing the numerous ways that our understanding of
food has narrowed, such as its price per ounce, combination of
nutrients, yield per acre, or calories, the book argues for a more
contextual view of food when debating its affordability. The first
edition, published in 2011, was widely praised for its innovative
approach and readability. In this new edition the author brings all
data and citations fully up to date. Increased coverage is given to
many topics including climate change, aquaculture,
financialization, BRICS countries, food-based social movements,
gender and ethnic issues, critical public health and land
succession. There is also greater discussion about successful cases
of social change throughout all chapters, by including new text
boxes that emphasize these more positive messages. The author shows
why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what
it promises. The food produced under this regime is in fact
exceedingly expensive. Many of these costs will be paid for in
other ways or by future generations and cheap food today may mean
expensive food tomorrow. By systematically assessing these costs
the book delves into issues related, but not limited, to
international development, national security, healthcare,
industrial meat production, organic farming, corporate
responsibility, government subsidies, food aid and global commodity
markets. It is shown that exploding the myth of cheap food requires
we have at our disposal a host of practices and policies.
This thought-provoking but accessible book critically examines the
dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether
we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food
affords us. Detailing the numerous ways that our understanding of
food has narrowed, such as its price per ounce, combination of
nutrients, yield per acre, or calories, the book argues for a more
contextual view of food when debating its affordability. The first
edition, published in 2011, was widely praised for its innovative
approach and readability. In this new edition the author brings all
data and citations fully up to date. Increased coverage is given to
many topics including climate change, aquaculture,
financialization, BRICS countries, food-based social movements,
gender and ethnic issues, critical public health and land
succession. There is also greater discussion about successful cases
of social change throughout all chapters, by including new text
boxes that emphasize these more positive messages. The author shows
why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what
it promises. The food produced under this regime is in fact
exceedingly expensive. Many of these costs will be paid for in
other ways or by future generations and cheap food today may mean
expensive food tomorrow. By systematically assessing these costs
the book delves into issues related, but not limited, to
international development, national security, healthcare,
industrial meat production, organic farming, corporate
responsibility, government subsidies, food aid and global commodity
markets. It is shown that exploding the myth of cheap food requires
we have at our disposal a host of practices and policies.
Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the
political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider
examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural
sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be
summarized as: 'more than human' approaches to economic life; a
'post-structural political economy' of food and agriculture; and
calls for more 'enactive', performative research approaches. This
volume describes the genealogy of such approaches, drawing on the
reflective insights of more than five years of international
engagement and research. It demonstrates the kinds of new work
being generated under these approaches and provides a means for
exploring how they should be all understood as part of the same
broader need to review theory and methods in the study of food,
agriculture, rural development and economic geography. This radical
collective approach is elaborated as the Biological Economies
approach. The authors break out from traditional categories of
analysis, reconceptualising materialities, and reframing economic
assemblages as biological economies, based on the notion of all
research being enactive or performative.
Criteria and procedures have been developed for assessing
crashworthiness and occupant protection performance of
alternatively designed train sets to be used in Tier I(not
exceeding 125 mph) passenger service. These criteria and procedures
take advantage of the latest technology in rail equipment
crashworthiness and include aspects that are fundamentally
different from current regulations, such as the scenario-based
train-level requirements, which have no counterpart in FRA's
current Tier I regulations. Numerical values of the pass/fail
criteria have been selected to provide an equivalent level of
crashworthiness as the current Tier I regulations.
The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology is a go-to
resource for cutting-edge research in the field. This two-volume
work covers the rich theoretic foundations of the sub-discipline,
as well as novel approaches and emerging areas of research that add
vitality and momentum to the discipline. Over the course of sixty
chapters, the authors featured in this work reach new levels of
theoretical depth, incorporating a global scope and diversity of
cases. This book explores the broad scope of crucial disciplinary
ideas and areas of research, extending its investigation to the
trajectories of thought that led to their unfolding. This unique
work serves as an invaluable tool for all those working in the
nexus of environment and society.
The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology is a go-to
resource for cutting-edge research in the field. This two-volume
work covers the rich theoretic foundations of the sub-discipline,
as well as novel approaches and emerging areas of research that add
vitality and momentum to the discipline. Over the course of sixty
chapters, the authors featured in this work reach new levels of
theoretical depth, incorporating a global scope and diversity of
cases. This book explores the broad scope of crucial disciplinary
ideas and areas of research, extending its investigation to the
trajectories of thought that led to their unfolding. This unique
work serves as an invaluable tool for all those working in the
nexus of environment and society.
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