Carole Counihan

Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy Carole Counihan

Brief Description: "Across the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of local food varieties, and negative health consequences. In this collection leading international anthropologists explore food activism across the globe to show how people speak to, negotiate, or cope with power through food. Who are the actors of food activism and what forms of agency do they enact? What kinds of economy, exchanges, and market relations do they practice and promote? How are they organized and what are their scales of political action and power relations? Each chapter explores why and how people choose food as a means of forging social and economic justice, covering diverse forms of food activism from individual acts by consumers or producers to organized social groups or movements. The case studies embrace a wide geographical spectrum including Cuba, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Mexico, Italy, Canada, France, Colombia, Japan, and the USA. This is the first book to examine food activism in diverse local, national, and transnational settings, making it essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology and other fields interested in food, economy, politics and social change"--Marc Notes: Across the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of local food varieties, and negative health consequences. In this collection leading international anthropologists explore food activism across the globe to show how people speak to, negotiate, or cope with power through food. Who are the actors of food activism and what forms of agency do they enact? What kinds of economy, exchanges, and market relations do they practice and promote? How are they organized and what are their scales of political action and power relations? Each chapter explores why and how people choose food as a means of forging social and economic justice, covering diverse forms of food activism from individual acts by consumers or producers to organized social groups or movements. The case studies embrace a wide geographical spectrum including Cuba, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Mexico, Italy, Canada, France, Colombia, Japan, and the USA. This is the first book to examine food activism in diverse local, national, and transnational settings, making it essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology and other fields interested in food, economy, politics and social change--; Provided by publisher.; Across the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of local food varieties, and negative health consequences. In this collection leading international anthropologists explore food activism across the globe to show how people speak to, negotiate, or cope with power through food. Who are the actors of food activism and what forms of agency do they enact? What kinds of economy, exchanges, and market relations do they practice and promote? How are they organized and what are their scales of political action and power relations? Each chapter explores why and how people choose food as a means of forging social and economic justice, covering diverse forms of food activism from individual acts by consumers or producers to organized social groups or movements. The case studies embrace a wide geographical spectrum including Cuba, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Mexico, Italy, Canada, France, Colombia, Japan, and the USA. This is the first book to examine food activism in diverse local, national, and transnational settings, making it essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology and other fields interested in food, economy, politics and social change--; Provided by publisher. Biographical Note: Carole Counihan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Millersville University, USA. Valeria Siniscalchi is Associate Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Marseille, France."Table of Contents: IntroductionEthnography of Food Activism - Valeria Siniscalchi, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, France and Carole Counihan, Millersville University, USALocal EngagementsFood Activism in Western Oregon - Joan E. Gross, Oregon State University, USAEngaging Latino Immigrants in Seattle Food Activism - Teresa M. Mares, University of Vermont, USAResistance and Household Food Consumption in Santiago De Cuba - Hanna Garth, University of California at Los Angeles, USAWomen, Gender and Food Activism in Italy - Carole Counihan, Millersville University, USAThe Movement to Reinvigorate Local Food Culture in Kyoto, Japan - Greg De St. Maurice, University of Pittsburgh, USANational ActionsFrench Biodynamic Viticulture: Militancy or Market Niche? - Marie-France Garcia Parpet, Institut De La Recherche Agronomique, FranceSicilian 'Antimafia' Food Production Cooperatives - Theodoros Rakopoulos, Goldsmiths College London, UKThe Canadian Wheat Board Struggle: Taking Freedom and Democracy to Market - Birgit Muller, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, FranceBrothers in Faith: Islamic Food Activism in Egypt - Nefissa Naguib, University of Bergen, NorwayTransnational NetworksInformation, Transparency and Democracy in the Global Coffee Trade - Daniel Reichman, University of Rochester, USA"Cultures of Corn" and Anti-GM Activism in Mexico and Colombia - Elizabeth Fitting, Dalhousie University, CanadaPeasants' Transnational Mobilization for Food Sovereignty in "La Via Campesina" - Delphine Thivet, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, FranceOscillating Between Village and Globe: Articulating Food in Sri Lankan Activism - Wim Van Daele, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BelgiumSlow Food Activism Between Politics and Economy - Valeria Siniscalchi, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, FranceBibliographyIndex"Publisher Marketing: Across the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of local food varieties, and negative health consequences. In this collection leading international anthropologists explore food activism across the globe to show how people speak to, negotiate, or cope with power through food. Who are the actors of food activism and what forms of agency do they enact? What kinds of economy, exchanges, and market relations do they practice and promote? How are they organized and what are their scales of political action and power relations? Each chapter explores why and how people choose food as a means of forging social and economic justice, covering diverse forms of food activism from individual acts by consumers or producers to organized social groups or movements. The case studies embrace a wide geographical spectrum including Cuba, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Mexico, Italy, Canada, France, Colombia, Japan, and the USA. This is the first book to examine food activism in diverse local, national, and transnational settings, making it essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology and other fields interested in food, economy, politics and social change.

Contributor Bio:  Counihan, Carole Carole Counihan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Millersville University, USA. Contributor Bio:  Siniscalchi, Valeria Carole Counihan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Millersville University, USA.