The New Food Activism (eBook)

Preface

1 • Introduction 1
Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman

Part One
Regulatory Campaigns

2 • Taking a Different Tack: Pesticide Regulatory-Reform Activism in California
Jill Lindsey Harrison

3 • How Canadian Farmers Fought and Won the Battle against GM Wheat
Emily Eaton

4 • How Midas Lost Its Golden Touch: Neoliberalism and Activist Strategy in the Demise of Methyl Iodide in California
Julie Guthman and Sandy Brown

Part Two
Working For Workers

5 • Resetting the “Good Food” Table: Labor and Food Justice Alliances in Los Angeles
Joshua Sbicca

6 • Food Workers and Consumers Organizing Together for Food Justice
Joann Lo and Biko Koenig

7 • Farmworker-Led Food Movements Then and Now: United Farm Workers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and the Potential for Farm Labor Justice
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern

Part Three
Collective Practices

8 • Collective Purchase: Food Cooperatives and Their Pursuit of Justice
Andrew Zitcer

9 • Cooperative Social Practices, Self-Determination, and the Struggle for Food Justice in Oakland and Chicago
Meleiza Figueroa and Alison Hope Alkon

10 • Urban Agriculture, Food Justice, and Neoliberal Urbanization: Rebuilding the Institution of Property
Michelle Glowa

11 • Boston’s Emerging Food Solidarity Economy
Penn Loh and Julian Agyeman

12 • Grounding the U.S. Food Movement: Bringing Land into Food Justice
Tanya M. Kerssen and Zoe W. Brent

13 • Conclusion: A New Food Politics
Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman

Contributors
Index