Food activism : agency, democracy and economy /: agency, democracy and economy. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi.
• Other Names: Counihan, Carole, 1948-; Siniscalchi, Valeria
• Contents: Ethnography of food activism / Valeria Siniscalchi and Carole Counihan -- Food activism in western Oregon / Joan E. Gross -- Engaging Latino immigrants in Seattle food activism through urban agriculture / Teresa M. Mares -- Resistance and household food consumption in Santiago de Cuba / Hanna Garth -- Women, gender, and agency in Italian food activism / Carole Counihan -- The movement to reinvigorate local food culture in Kyoto, Japan / Greg de St. Maurice -- French biodynamic viticulture: militancy or market niche? / Marie-France Garcia-Parpet -- Food activism and antimafia cooperatives in contemporary Sicily / Theodoros Rakopoulos -- The Canadian Wheat Board struggle: taking freedom and democracy to market / Birgit Müller -- Brothers in faith: Islamic food activism in Egypt / Nefissa Naguib -- Information and democracy in the global coffee trade / Daniel Reichman -- Cultures of corn and anti-GMO activism in Mexico and Columbia / Elizabeth Fitting -- Peasants' transnational mobilization for food sovereignty in La Vía Campesina / Delphine Thivet -- Oscillating between village and globe: articulating food in Sri Lankan activism / Wim Van Daele -- Slow food activism between politics and economy / Valeria Siniscalchi.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 251 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 363.8/5; Social Science -- Agriculture & Food; Food supply -- Social aspects; Food supply; Food industry and trade; Agriculture -- Economic aspects; Agriculture -- Social aspects; Political participation; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Agriculture -- Economic aspects; Agriculture -- Social aspects; Food industry and trade; Food supply; Food supply -- Social aspects; Political participation; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General / bisacsh; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture et Food / bisacsh; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural / bisacsh; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography / bisacsh; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General / bisacsh; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Soziale Bewegung; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Food & society; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857858344; 0857858343
• Related ISBNs: 9780857858337; 0857858335; 9780857858320; 0857858327; 0857858343; 9781472520203
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.