Food Margins - Cathy Stanton

Food Margins

Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2024
University of Massachusetts Press (Verlag)
978-1-62534-806-7 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Part memoir and part history lesson, Food Margins traces the tangled economic and political histories of the plantation, the factory, and the supermarket through the life of one New England town. This book tells a complex and compelling story of a rural community imagining and creating a viable alternative to the mainstream.
In a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-­scale ventures struggle to survive, as anthropologist Cathy Stanton discovered when she joined the effort to save a small food co-­op in a former mill town in western Massachusetts. On the margins of the dominant system, Stanton found herself reckoning with its deep racial and class inequities, and learning that making real change requires a fierce commitment to community and a willingness to change herself as well.

Part memoir and part history lesson, Food Margins traces the tangled economic and political histories of the plantation, the factory, and the supermarket through the life of one New England town. Stanton tells a complex and compelling story of a rural community imagining and creating a viable alternative to the mainstream in a time of increasingly urgent need to build a more socially and ecologically just food system.

Cathy Stanton is distinguished senior lecturer of anthropology at Tufts University and author of The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 10 illus.
Verlagsort Massachusetts
Sprache englisch
Maße 133 x 216 mm
Gewicht 513 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-62534-806-1 / 1625348061
ISBN-13 978-1-62534-806-7 / 9781625348067
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