ISBN:
9789811957949
,
9811957940
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiii, 158 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
22 cm
Series Statement:
Alternatives and futures
Series Statement:
cultures, practices, activism and utopias
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
338.19
Keywords:
Food security
;
Food sovereignty
;
Social movements
;
Food security
;
Food sovereignty
;
Social movements
Abstract:
This book charts the authors journey as a cultural anthropologist through food resistance movements over two decades, in Catalonia (Spain), Australia and Venezuela. It brings important lessons from the field to current discussions on transitioning to just and sustainable food systems. In Australia, freegans consumption of garbage reveals the extent of food going to waste from commercial sources while people go hungry. In contrast, Venezuelas food sovereignty movement is part of an attempted national transition from a capitalist to socialist economy, highlighting processes of decentralisation, collectivisation, and government grassroots coalitions. The study of autonomous spaces in Catalonia illuminates how food sharing can enable people to live their politics, while highlighting governance, consumption, technology and use of space in food resistance efforts
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Series Editor Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Food Resistance Movements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introducing Food Resistance Movements -- Alternative Food Networks -- Trajectory 1: AFNs from Europe -- Trajectory 2: AFNs from North America -- Trajectory 3: AFNs in the Global South -- Trajectory 4: Social Welfare AFNs -- Why Cities? -- Case Studies in Australia, Venezuela and Catalonia -- Ethnographies of Food Resistance Movements -- The Book Structure -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Food Waste Activism in Australia -- The Problem of Overconsumption and Food 'Waste' -- My Radical Beginnings in the Bin -- The Ethics of Sourcing and Eating 'Garbage' -- Associated Freegan Subcultures -- Where Do Freegans 'Shop'? -- What's on the Freegan Menu? -- The Politics of FNB Serving Sites -- Is Eating 'Garbage' Safe? -- Is It Legal? -- Constructing a Freegan Identity -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela -- A Brief History of Venezuelan Politics, Dutch Disease and Agriculture -- So Enters Chávez -- In the Field -- Venezuelan Gastronomy and Food Pathways -- Indigenous and Traditional Food Pathways -- The Commercial Pathway -- The Informal Sector -- Independent Alternative Food Pathways -- The Venezuelan Food Sovereignty Movement -- Rural and Urban Land Reform -- Urban Productive Programmes -- Distribution: Subsidised, Regulated and Free Food for All -- Subsidised and Regulated Supermarket Chains -- A Blockage in the Food Chain? -- Subsidised Eateries -- Free Food -- Dietary Outcomes -- Environmental Outcomes -- Chávez's Final Years -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Autonomous Food Spaces in Catalonia -- A Catalan Culture of Resistance and Protest -- Internal Governance Processes of Autonomous Food Spaces.
Description / Table of Contents:
Can Masdeu -- L'Aixada -- La Xarca D'Aliments -- Governing 'Openness' to Sustain Resistance -- Sharing Physical and Virtual Space -- Membership -- Sustaining Autonomous Spaces Through Food Sharing -- Beyond Ethical Consumption at L'Aixada -- Anti-consumerism at La Xarxa -- Degrowth at Can Masdeu -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Reflections on Food System Transitions -- Beyond Awareness Raising and Behaviour Change -- Institutionalisation: A Pathway for Integrating AFNs into Policy and Planning -- Maintenance and Care: Deepening and Sustaining Engagement in AFNs -- Failure -- Technological Innovation -- The Commercialisation of AFNs -- A Food Sharing Ecosystem: Diversification, Hybridisation and Replication of AFNs -- Diversification and Hybridisation -- Replication -- Translocal Food Movements -- Food Resistance Movements from Global South to North -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Future Directions for Food Resistance Movements -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-981-19-5795-6
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