Alternative food networks : knowledge, practice, and politics / David Goodman, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Michael K. Goodman. 6
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Language: Unknown language code Summary language: Unknown language code Original language: Unknown language code Series: ; London : Routledge, ©201246Edition: Description: 24 cm. xii, 308 pages : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415671460 (hardback)ISSN: 2Other title: 6 []Uniform titles: | | Subject(s): -- 2 -- 0 -- -- | -- 2 -- 0 -- 6 -- | 2 0 -- | -- -- 20 -- | | -- -- Food industry and trade.;Food industry and trade - Moral and ethical aspects.;Food supply - Moral and ethical aspects.;Consumption (Economics). -- -- -- | -- -- -- 20 -- --Genre/Form: -- 2 -- Additional physical formats: DDC classification: | 381/.41 LOC classification: | HD9000.5 | .G658 20122Other classification: SCI030000;SOC015000;SOC055000| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Provided by publisher. Farmers' markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods - how have these once novel, alternative foods and the people and networks supporting them become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of alternative worlds built on ethics of sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these foods crowd supermarket shelves and other mainstream shopping outlets? This timely book provides a critical review of the growth of alternative food networks and their struggle to defend their ethical and aesthetic values against the standardising pressures of the corporate mainstream with its placeless and nameless global supply networks. It explores how these alternative movements are making a difference and their possible role as fears of global climate change and food insecurity intensify. It assesses the different positions around these networks from three major arenas of food activism and politics: Britain and Western Europe, the United States, and the global Fair Trade economy. This comparative perspective runs throughout the book to fully explore the progressive erosion of the interface between alternative and mainstream food provisioning. As the era of cheap food draws to a close, analysis of the limitations of market-based social change and the future of alternative food economies and localist food politics place this book at the cutting-edge of the field--
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