Food Activism Today

Sustainability, Climate Change, and Social Justice

Donald M. Nonini, Dorothy C. Holland

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New York University Press
21 May 2024

Food & society; Anthropology; Global warming

Series: Social Transformations in American Anthropology

Illuminates how food activism has been taking shape and where it is headed

As climate change, childhood obesity, and food insecurity accelerate at an alarming pace, activists around the country are working to address the pressing need for healthy and sustainable solutions to feed the population. Food Activism Today investigates the new approaches food activists are taking as they formulate alternatives to the current unsustainable agro-industrial food system.

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over an eleven-month period in both urban and rural North Carolina, the volume addresses questions about the moral visions of food activists, how class and racial hierarchies infuse some food activism movements, and how food activism relates to climate change and imminent ecological collapse. Exploring food activism around both local and sustainable food production and food security for lower-income people, the volume finds surprisingly little overlap, with the two movements seemingly remaining distinct approaches (at least for now) to issues around the food system, climate change, and access to healthy food choices.

As the US moves into an era in which climate change and neoliberal tensions are conjoined in a looming political crisis, Food Activism Today looks at where food activism is headed, the ethics and issues surrounding alternative approaches to food production, and how food production is related to broader issues of climate change.

By: Donald M. Nonini, Dorothy C. Holland
Imprint: New York University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 6
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781479810987
ISBN 10: 1479810983
Series: Social Transformations in American Anthropology
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 21 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Donald M. Nonini (Author) Donald M. Nonini is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and co-author of Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics. Dorothy Holland (Author) Dorothy C. Holland was Boshamer Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She was a co-author of Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics.