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Author:   Valeria Siniscalchi (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France) ,  Professor Krista Harper (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781350084773

ISBN 10:   1350084778
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"List of images Preface and Acknowledgments Foreword - Carole Counihan, Millersville University, USA Chapter 1: Value and Values in Food Projects in Europe, Krista Harper, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and Valeria Siniscalchi, EHESS - Centre Norbert Elias, France Part I: Prosuming Values Chapter 2: Between Sabor, Saber, and the Market: Food Values and Activism in a Lisbon Urban Garden, Krista Harper, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and Ana Isabel Afonso, NOVA FCSH, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Chapter 3: Growing Together: Conspicuous Production and Quality Produce in Czech Community Gardens, Cary Speck, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Chapter 4: Subsistence Farming in Styria, Elisabeth Kosnik, University of Graz, Austria Part II: Calculating Values Chapter 5: The Moral Price of Milk: Food Values and the Intersection of Moralities and Economies in Dairy Family Farms in Galicia, Bibiana Martínez, University of Barcelona, Spain Chapter 6: From Milk Price to Milk Value: Sardinian Sheep Herders Facing Neoliberal Restructuring, Filippo M. Zerilli, University of Cagliari, Italy and Marco Pitzalis, University of Cagliari, Italy Chapter 7: ""Small Farms, Better Food: Valuing Local Agri-Food Systems in Europe. From the European Peasants Coordination to the Nyéléni European Forum for Food Sovereignty, Delphine Thivet, Bordeaux University, France Part III: Connecting Values Chapter 8: Solidarity, Calculation and Economic Proximity inside the ""Vegetable Baskets"" System in the South of France,Valeria Siniscalchi, EHESS - Centre Norbert Elias, France Chapter 9: Within and Beyond the Market System. Organic Food Cooperatives in Catalonia, Patricia Homs, University of Barcelona, Spain and Susana Narotzky, University of Barcelona, Spain Chapter 10: 70% Zapatista?: Solidarity “Ecosystems” and the Troubles of Valuing Labor in Food Cooperatives, Theodoros Rakopoulos, University of Oslo, Norway Part IV: Consuming values Chapter 11: Fairness is Elsewhere: ""Training"" Fair Trade in Post-socialist Contexts, Guntra Aistara, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary Chapter 12: The Changing Value of Food: Calculating Moldova’s Poverty, Jennifer Cash, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany Chapter 13: Food Values Among African Caribbean Migrants in England, Dana Conzo, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Chapter 14: Debating Halal in Contemporary Denmark, Johan Fischer, Roskilde University, Denmark Chapter 15: Concluding Comments: The Essential Ambiguity of the Value of Food, Richard Wilk, Indiana University, USA Index"

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Food Values in Europe is worth reading and discussing because it brings this exceptionally well-developed anthropology and sociology of European food and agriculture into conversation with the critique of globalized food systems and the commodity fetishisms they entail. * EuropeNow *

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Krista Harper is Professor of Anthropology and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the USA. Valeria Siniscalchi is Professor of Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in France.

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