New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action

by Alison Hope Alkon (Editor), Julie Guthman (Editor)

The New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts to improve workers’ pay and conditions throughout the food system, and ways to push food activism beyond its typical reliance on individualism, consumerism, and private property. The authors challenge and advance existing discourse on consumer trends, food movements, and the intersection of food with racial and economic inequalities.

Genres: Food, Nonfiction

344 pages, Hardcover

Published June 27, 2017

Reviews

[Ophélie Véron]

A convincing reading that both critiques and advances existing discourse on alternative food activism and neoliberalism. By attempting to overcome the apolitical consumer activism impasse, the book highlights social-justice oriented grassroots community initiatives that seek to look beyond their plates and challenge racial, class and gender inequalities within food systems. The book's scope would have benefited from the inclusion of non-US based case studies.

[Emma Green]

A deeper look at food activism that goes beyond simply eating organic or buying fair trade. This book includes examples from around the world to illustrate the social and environmental implications of what and how we eat.

[Hadley Weyerich]

Nice, interesting, and necessary book, but very dense. I think if it was more accessible/ easy to read this book would be great and would be a more impactful call to action.