Food Utopias

Paul Stock is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and the Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas, USA. Michael Carolan is Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA. Christopher Rosin is Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainability: Agriculture, Food, Energy, Environment, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Foreword: Food Utopias in Perspective Fred Kirschenmann Foreword Wes Jackson Part 1: Food and Utopias 1. Food Utopias: Hoping the Future of Agriculture Paul Stock, Michael Carolan, and Christopher Rosin 2. Everyday Life in Utopia: Food Lyman T. Sargent Part 2: Emergent Food Utopias 3. From the Nano to the Global Scale: New Utopian Solutions to Food Waste Grant Shoffstall and Zsuzsa Gille 4. ‘We Should Have a Culture Around Food’: Toward a Sustainable Food Utopia in the Ozark-Ouachita Bioregion Joshua Lockyer 5. Urban Agriculture as Embedded in the Social and Solidarity Economy Basel: Developing Sustainable Communities Isidor Walliman 6. Slow Food Presidia: The Nostalgic and the Utopian Cinzia Piatti 7. Towards Utopias of Prefigurative Politics and Food Sovereignty: Experiences of Politicised Peasant Food Production Nave Wald 8. Re-Wilding Food Systems: Visceralities, Utopias, Pragmatism, and Practice Michael Carolan Part 3: Food, Ethics and Morality 9. Sketching a Global Agro-Ecology Eutopia: The Land Institute in Directional Context John W. Head 10. Contradictions in Hope and Care: Technological Utopianism, Biosphere II and the Catholic Worker Farms Paul Stock 11. Spurlock’s Vomit and Visible Food Utopias: Enacting a Positive Politics of Food Hugh Campbell Conclusion: An Invitation to Food Utopias 12. Food as Mediator: Opening the Dialogue around Food Paul Stock, Michael Carolan, and Christopher Rosin