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Author:   Wynne Wright (Michigan State University) ,  Gerad Middendorf (Kansas State University)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780271032740

ISBN 10:   027103274
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   17 December 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Fighting Over Food: Change in the Agrifood System Wynne Wright and Gerad Middendorf Part I. Conceptual Framework 1. Agency and Resistance in the Sociology of Agriculture and Food Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas H. Constance 2. Agency and the Agrifood System William H. Friedland 3. Resistance, Agency, and Counterwork: A Theoretical Positioning Norman Long Part II. Case Studies: Making Room for Agency 4. Counterhegemony or Bourgeois Piggery? Food Politics and the Case of FoodShare Josée Johnston 5. Resistance, Redistribution, and Power in the Fair Trade Banana Initiative Aimee Shreck 6. Sustaining Outrage: Cultural Capital, Strategic Location, and Motivating Sensibilities in the U.S. Anti-Genetic Engineering Movement William A. Munro and Rachel A. Schurman 7. Social Life and Transformation in Salmon Fisheries and Aquaculture Michael Skladany Part III. Case Studies: Constraints to Agency 8. Infertile Ground: The Struggle for a New Puerto Rican Food System Amy Guptill 9. Possibilities for Revitalizing Local Agriculture: Evidence from Four Counties in Washington State Raymond A. Jussaume Jr. and Kazumi Kondoh 10. Consumers and Citizens in the Global Agrifood System: The Cases of New Zealand and South Africa in the Global Red Meat Chain Keiko Tanaka and Elizabeth Ransom Conclusion: From Mindful Eating to Structural Change Wynne Wright and Gerad Middendorf Index

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How will we feed ourselves in the future? Who will decide? Can people acting together make a difference in the food system to come? This book takes up the key sociological questions of structure and agency in addressing these questions. It moves beyond abstract debates, applying the structure/agency lens to a most important human system the one that produces and distributes our food. . . . The Fight Over Food illuminates possibilities for change in the food system and simultaneously reminds us of the constraints of global capitalism. This book will be of interest not only to sociologists who study food and agriculture, but to all students of social change within a variety of disciplines. The Fight Over Food points us in directions for our engagement both as scholars and as citizens of the world who care about food. Patricia Allen, American Journal of Sociology

One problem with the food system is that price is the bottom line rather than having the bottom line be land stewardship, an appreciation for the environmental and social value of small-scale family farms, or for organically grown produce.

How will we feed ourselves in the future? Who will decide? Can people acting together make a difference in the food system to come? This book takes up the key sociological questions of structure and agency in addressing these questions. It moves beyond abstract debates, applying the structure/agency lens to a most important human system the one that produces and distributes our food. . . . The Fight Over Food illuminates possibilities for change in the food system and simultaneously reminds us of the constraints of global capitalism. This book will be of interest not only to sociologists who study food and agriculture, but to all students of social change within a variety of disciplines. The Fight Over Food points us in directions for our engagement both as scholars and as citizens of the world who care about food. Patricia Allen, American Journal of Sociology

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Wynne Wright is Assistant Professor of Community, Food, and Agriculture at Michigan State University. Gerad Middendorf is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University.

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