The Fight Over Food - Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System

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.

About the author

Wynne Wright is Assistant Professor of Community, Food, and Agriculture at Michigan State UniversityGerad Middendorf is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wynne Wright
• Assisted by: Gerad Middendorf (Editor), Gerad (Kansas State University) Middendorf (Editor), Wynne Wright (Editor), Wynne (Michigan State University) Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2007
• EAN: 9780271032740
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03274-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Illustrations: 1 Maps; 3 Halftones, black and white
• Series: Rural Studies; Rural Studies (Hardcover); Rural Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research