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Food Justice Now!: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle
A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates
The United States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their overwhelming concern for what they consume often hinders their engagement with social justice more broadly. Food Justice Now! charts a path from food activism to social justice activism that integrates the two. It calls on the food-focused to broaden and deepen their commitment to the struggle against structural inequalities both within and beyond the food system.
In an engrossing, historically grounded, and ethnographically rich narrative, Joshua Sbicca argues that food justice is more than just a myopic focus on food, allowing scholars and activists alike to investigate the causes behind inequities and evaluate and implement political strategies to overcome them. Focusing on carceral, labor, and immigration crises, Sbicca tells the stories of three California-based food movement organizations, showing that when activists use food to confront neoliberal capitalism and institutional racism, they can creatively expand how to practice and achieve food justice.
Sbicca sets his central argument in opposition to apolitical and individual solutions, discussing national food movement campaigns and the need for economically and racially just food policies--a matter of vital public concern with deep implications for building collective power across a diversity of interests.
The United States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their overwhelming concern for what they consume often hinders their engagement with social justice more broadly. Food Justice Now! charts a path from food activism to social justice activism that integrates the two. It calls on the food-focused to broaden and deepen their commitment to the struggle against structural inequalities both within and beyond the food system.
In an engrossing, historically grounded, and ethnographically rich narrative, Joshua Sbicca argues that food justice is more than just a myopic focus on food, allowing scholars and activists alike to investigate the causes behind inequities and evaluate and implement political strategies to overcome them. Focusing on carceral, labor, and immigration crises, Sbicca tells the stories of three California-based food movement organizations, showing that when activists use food to confront neoliberal capitalism and institutional racism, they can creatively expand how to practice and achieve food justice.
Sbicca sets his central argument in opposition to apolitical and individual solutions, discussing national food movement campaigns and the need for economically and racially just food policies--a matter of vital public concern with deep implications for building collective power across a diversity of interests.
280 pages, Paperback
Published July 31, 2018
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October 16, 2019
Wow, what a book. Unlike other food and environmental justice books that I've read, this one has a much more modern and engaging field while still remaining a highly academic book. Kudos to you, Sbicca and your book designer!
Joshua Sbicca follows three food justice movements and analyzes the ways in which they attack such a large and looming problem with our society. Where do they begin? And how do they get funding? What do they consider activism, and how successful is it?
He analyzes the ways in which such movements intersect with environmental justice an social justice, as it's typically black and brown bodies doing the manual labor in order to get us our food, and black and brown bodies that are most often impoverished and unable to access the healthy, raw foods that they pick. And, though he does see some value in individually-based solutions, he aims to put the pressure on corporations and institutions.
Overall, this book was so informative and filled to the brim with radical, engaging arguments. Definitely worth reading if you're interested in food justice movements and their place in today's politics.
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Joshua Sbicca follows three food justice movements and analyzes the ways in which they attack such a large and looming problem with our society. Where do they begin? And how do they get funding? What do they consider activism, and how successful is it?
He analyzes the ways in which such movements intersect with environmental justice an social justice, as it's typically black and brown bodies doing the manual labor in order to get us our food, and black and brown bodies that are most often impoverished and unable to access the healthy, raw foods that they pick. And, though he does see some value in individually-based solutions, he aims to put the pressure on corporations and institutions.
Overall, this book was so informative and filled to the brim with radical, engaging arguments. Definitely worth reading if you're interested in food justice movements and their place in today's politics.
Review cross-listed here!
October 27, 2024
Such a welcome reminder that the horizon of food justice extends far beyond the food itself -- "the food part of this thing is subservient to the equity part of this thing" (166). Readable and enjoyable!
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