ISBN:
9781138788497
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (259 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
Parallel Title:
Print version Food Utopias : Reimagining citizenship, ethics and community
DDC:
394.1/2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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: u
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword: food utopias in perspective; Foreword; PART I Food and utopias; 1 Food utopias: hoping the future of agriculture; 2 Everyday life in utopia: food; PART II Emergent food utopias; 3 From the nano to the global scale: new utopian solutions to food waste; 4 "We should have a culture around food": toward a sustainable food utopia in the Ozark-Ouachita bioregion; 5 Urban agriculture as embedded in the social and solidarity economy Basel: developing sustainable communities
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Slow Food Presidia: the nostalgic and the utopian7 Towards utopias of prefigurative politics and food sovereignty: experiences of politicised peasant food production; 8 Re-wilding food systems: visceralities, utopias, pragmatism, and practice; PART III Food, ethics and morality; 9 Sketching a global agroecology eutopia: The Land Institute in directional context; 10 Contradictions in hope and care: technological utopianism, Biosphere II and the Catholic Worker farms; 11 Spurlock's vomit and visible food utopias: enacting a positive politics of food
Description / Table of Contents:
PART IV Conclusion: an invitation to food utopias12 Food as mediator: opening the dialogue around food; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
