{"product_id":"cultivating-food-justice-isbn-9780262516327","title":"Cultivating Food Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eDocuments how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many low-income neighborhoods and communities of color have been systematically deprived of access to healthy and sustainable food. These communities have been actively prevented from producing their own food and often live in “food deserts” where fast food is more common than fresh food. \u003ci\u003eCultivating Food Justice\u003c\/i\u003e describes their efforts to envision and create environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives to the food system. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together insights from studies of environmental justice, sustainable agriculture, critical race theory, and food studies,\u003ci\u003e Cultivating Food Justice \u003c\/i\u003ehighlights the ways race and class inequalities permeate the food system, from production to distribution to consumption. The studies offered in the book explore a range of important issues, including agricultural and land use policies that systematically disadvantage Native American, African American, Latino\/a, and Asian American farmers and farmworkers; access problems in both urban and rural areas; efforts to create sustainable local food systems in low-income communities of color; and future directions for the food justice movement. These diverse accounts of the relationships among food, environmentalism, justice, race, and identity will help guide efforts to achieve a just and sustainable agriculture.\u003c\/p\u003eThe diversity of theoretical and conceptual approaches, subjects, and authors is refreshing. The dimensions of ethnic identity, racism, and white privilege as they affect the access and control of food-producing resources is highlighted and suggests important new directions in theorizing the political ecology of food and agriculture....The blend of academic and activist chapters provides a good mix of theory, strategy, and tactics.—\u003ci\u003eAnnals of the Association of American Geographers\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answers to our food system ills are not found simply in opposition to our current food system; community solutions that incorporate racial justice, from production to consumption, are required. I could not agree more. As facilitators of community building, planners have a responsibility to fill in the gaps in representation at the food movement 'table' and understand the history of those coming (or not coming) to such a table. The insights in this book provide a foundation and direction for food system planners.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJill K. Clark\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Planning Education and Research\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCultivating Food Justice\u003c\/i\u003e covers important ground previously lacking in food studies and movements, particularly with regard to critical theorizing about race, class, ethnicity, sustainability, and food access, thereby expanding understandings of food justice as both a field of scholarly inquiry and fruitful activism.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case studies and theoretical discussions presented in this volume provide very useful insights for food activists, farmers, consumers, and policy-makers regarding the political, economic, and social processes that have influenced our global food system and its related class and racial injustices.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRachel S. Madsen\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgriculture and Human Values\u003c\/i\u003e—Alison Hope Alkon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Pacific.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulian Agyeman is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. He is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eSharing Cities\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America\u003c\/i\u003e, each published by the MIT Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlison Hope Alkon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Pacific.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulian Agyeman is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. He is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eSharing Cities\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America\u003c\/i\u003e, each published by the MIT Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKari Marie Norgaard is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura-Anne Minkoff-Zern is Assistant Professor of Food Studies and Affiliate of the Departments of Geography and Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJill Lindsey Harrison is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Goodman is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlison Hope Alkon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Pacific.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulian Agyeman is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. He is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eSharing Cities\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America\u003c\/i\u003e, each published by the MIT Press.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305554989285,"sku":"NP9780262516327","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262516327.jpg?v=1767724353","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/cultivating-food-justice-isbn-9780262516327","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}