The Fight Over Food by Wynne Wright
A collection of essays which analyze and evaluate both the theoretical and historical contexts of the agrifood system and the ways in which trends of individual action and collective activity have led to an accumulation of resistance that greatly affects the mainstream market of food production.-
Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century
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The Estuary's Gift
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Reactions to the Market
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Rural Education for the Twenty-First Century
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Economic Restructuring and Family Well-Being in Rural America
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American Guestworkers
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Stories of Globalization
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Country Boys
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Together at the Table
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Governing the Wind Energy Commons
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Community Effects of Leadership Development Education
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Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty
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Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives
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Sociology in Government
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Revealing Rural "Others"
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The Contradictions of Neoliberal Agri-Food: Corporations, Resistance, and Disasters in Japan
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Daughters of the Mountain
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California Dreaming
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Rural America in a Globalizing World
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Farming for Us All
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Learning to Leave
“The categorization of the essays and the overarching theme of agency results in a balanced approach, avoiding easy tropes or doomsday scenariosIndividual essays are consistently sound in scholarship.”
—J. M. Deutsch Choice
“This book will help students enter into discussions of agency in the sociology of agriculture; the issues it raises make it worthwhile reading for anyone interested in promoting real structural change within the agriculture and food system.”
—Jessica Bagdonis Gastronomica
“How will we feed ourselves in the future? Who will decide? Can people acting together make a difference in the food system to come? This book takes up the key sociological questions of structure and agency in addressing these questions. It moves beyond abstract debates, applying the structure/agency lens to a most important human system—the one that produces and distributes our food. . . .
“The Fight Over Food illuminates possibilities for change in the food system and simultaneously reminds us of the constraints of global capitalism. This book will be of interest not only to sociologists who study food and agriculture, but to all students of social change within a variety of disciplines. The Fight Over Food points us in directions for our engagement both as scholars and as citizens of the world who care about food.”
—Patricia Allen American Journal of Sociology
Wynne Wright is Assistant Professor of Community, Food, and Agriculture at Michigan State University
Gerad Middendorf is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780271032757 |
| ISBN 10 | 0271032758 |
| Title | The Fight Over Food |
| Author | Wynne Wright |
| Series | Rural Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2008-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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