Postcolonialism, Indigeneity and Struggles for Food Sovereignty

Postcolonialism, Indigeneity and Struggles for Food Sovereignty
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 339
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ISBN-10 : 9781317416111
ISBN-13 : 1317416112
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Book Synopsis Postcolonialism, Indigeneity and Struggles for Food Sovereignty by : Marisa Wilson

Download or read book Postcolonialism, Indigeneity and Struggles for Food Sovereignty written by Marisa Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores connections between activist debates about food sovereignty and academic debates about alternative food networks. The ethnographic case studies demonstrate how divergent histories and geographies of people-in-place open up or close off possibilities for alternative/sovereign food spaces, illustrating the globally uneven and varied development of industrial capitalist food networks and of everyday forms of subversion and accommodation. How, for example, do relations between alternative food networks and mainstream industrial capitalist food networks differ in places with contrasting histories of land appropriation, trade, governance and consumer identities to those in Europe and non-indigenous spaces of New Zealand or the United States? How do indigenous populations negotiate between maintaining a sense of moral connectedness to their agri- and acqua-cultural landscapes and subverting, or indeed appropriating, industrial capitalist approaches to food? By delving into the histories, geographies and everyday worlds of (post)colonial peoples, the book shows how colonial power relations of the past and present create more opportunities for some alternative producer–consumer and state–market–civil society relations than others.

Sustainable Development and Communication in Global Food Networks

Sustainable Development and Communication in Global Food Networks
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9783030461195
ISBN-13 : 303046119X
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sustainable Development and Communication in Global Food Networks by : Maria Touri

Download or read book Sustainable Development and Communication in Global Food Networks written by Maria Touri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel approach to sustainable development through the theory and practice of communication in global food networks, focusing specifically on organic food and fair trade movements. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it brings together the fields of Communication for Development and Social Change, Agri-Food Studies and Economic Geography. This is supported with a participatory method that unveils voices from Indian farming communities, small European businesses and UK-based consumers. The book exemplifies the integral role of communication in sustainable development through direct and mediated communication processes that bring these actors together in the global food market. Such processes include trade relations, self-representation, and information and knowledge exchange through the spaces of the internet. Through these processes the book uncovers the instrumental role of communication in building a more holistic understanding of sustainable development. It also advocates that sustainable solutions require smaller, self-sustained projects and initiatives that pay closer attention to the voices and localized experiences of the people on the ground.

Populism and Postcolonialism

Populism and Postcolonialism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9780429602191
ISBN-13 : 0429602197
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Book Synopsis Populism and Postcolonialism by : Adrián Scribano

Download or read book Populism and Postcolonialism written by Adrián Scribano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the interconnections between populism and neoliberalism through the lens of postcolonialism. Its primary focus is to build a distinct understanding of the concept of populism as a political movement in the twenty-first century, interwoven with the lasting effects of colonialism. This volume particularly aims to fill the gap in the current literature by establishing a clear-cut connection between populism and postcolonialism. It sees populism as a contemporary and collective political response to the international crisis of the nation-state’s limited capacity to deal with the burst of global capitalism into everyday life. Writings on Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Italy, France and Argentina offer regional perspectives which, in turn, provide the reader with a deepened global view of the main features of the multiple and complex relations between postcoloniality and populism. This book will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists as well as postgraduate students who are interested in the problem of populism in the days of postcolonialism.

Markets in their Place

Markets in their Place
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9781000412192
ISBN-13 : 1000412199
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Book Synopsis Markets in their Place by : Russell Prince

Download or read book Markets in their Place written by Russell Prince and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markets are usually discussed in abstract terms, as an economic organizing principle, a generalized alternative to government planning, or even as powerful actors in their own right, able to shape local and national economic destinies. But markets are not abstract. Even as the idea of the market seduces politicians around the world to take advantage of their abstract qualities, they constantly run up against material reality. Markets are always somewhere, in place, and it is in place that the smooth theories of markets falter and fail. More than simply being embedded in particular places, markets necessarily emerge in the various political, social, cultural, and environmental relations that exist in and between places. Markets shape places, but the reverse is also true. This collection of essays approaches markets from the ground up, and from a part of the world often still regarded as peripheral to global capitalism: the South Pacific. With a wide variety of case studies, including on indigenous economies, childcare, agriculture, wine, electricity metering, finance, education, and housing, the authors show how complex local, social and cultural politics matter to how markets are made within and between places, and the insights that can be gleaned from studying markets in this part of the world. They explore the way superficially similar markets work out differently in different places, and why, as well as examining how market relations are constructed in places outside and on the edges of the centres of Western capitalism, and what this says back to how markets are understood in those centres. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and students working in and between economic geography, cultural economy, political economy, economic sociology, and more.

Food and World Culture [2 volumes]

Food and World Culture [2 volumes]
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 810
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ISBN-10 : 9798216085508
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Book Synopsis Food and World Culture [2 volumes] by : Linda S. Watts

Download or read book Food and World Culture [2 volumes] written by Linda S. Watts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses food as a lens through which to explore important matters of society and culture. In exploring why and how people eat around the globe, the text focuses on issues of health, conflict, struggle, contest, inequality, and power. Whether because of its necessity, pleasure, or ubiquity, the world of food (and its lore) proves endlessly fascinating to most people. The story of food is a narrative filled with both human striving and human suffering. However, many of today's diners are only dimly aware of the human price exacted for that comforting distance from the lived-world realities of food justice struggles. With attention to food issues ranging from local farming practices to global supply chains, this book examines how food’s history and geography remain inextricably linked to sociopolitical experiences of trauma connected with globalization, such as colonization, conquest, enslavement, and oppression. The main text is structured alphabetically around a set of 70 ingredients, from almonds to yeast. Each ingredient's story is accompanied by recipes. Along with the food profiles, the encyclopedia features sidebars. These are short discussions of topics of interest related to food, including automats, diners, victory gardens, and food at world’s fairs. This project also brings a social justice perspective to its content—weighing debates concerning food access, equity, insecurity, and politics.

All We Want is the Earth

All We Want is the Earth
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Publisher : Policy Press
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9781529218343
ISBN-13 : 1529218349
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Book Synopsis All We Want is the Earth by : Patrick Bresnihan

Download or read book All We Want is the Earth written by Patrick Bresnihan and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism. In subsequent decades, environmentalism consolidated into forms of management and business strategy that aimed to tackle ecological degradation while enabling new forms of green economic growth. However, the focus on spaces and species to be protected saw questions of human work and histories of colonialism pushed out of view. This book traces a counter-history of modern environmentalism from the 1960s to the present day. It focuses on claims concerning land, labour and social reproduction arising at important moments in the history of environmentalism made by feminist, anti-colonial, Indigenous, workers’ and agrarian movements. Many of these movements did not consider themselves ‘environmental,’ and yet they offer vital ways forward in the face of escalating ecological damage and social injustice.

Cultivating Socialism

Cultivating Socialism
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9780820366036
ISBN-13 : 082036603X
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Book Synopsis Cultivating Socialism by : Rowan Lubbock

Download or read book Cultivating Socialism written by Rowan Lubbock and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Launched in 2004, the Latin American regional institution of ALBA (Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra: Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) sought to overcome the historical legacies of neo-colonial domination by consecrating the values of cooperation, inclusive development, and popular power. As part of a region-wide effort among states and social movements to break the socio-ecologically destructive effects of capitalist agriculture, the elevation of food sovereignty - based on the protections of rural livelihoods, land redistribution and sustainable agricultural production (agroecology) - became a cornerstone of ALBA's development policy. And yet, these regional aspirations barely saw the light of day, while Venezuela (the beating heart of ALBA) experienced the worst food crisis in its history. How did this come to pass? Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, where the majority of ALBA's food policies reside, Cultivating Socialism provides the first in-depth study of the ways in which peasants, workers and states attempted to redress the inequities of commercialised agriculture, and the limits and contradictions encountered on the road to a regional food sovereignty regime. The politics of food sovereignty within ALBA thus offers important lessons for how we might think about emancipatory politics today, and for the future"--