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

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

• Assisted by: Gerad Middendorf (Editor), Gerad (Kansas State University) Middendorf (Editor), Middendorf Gerad (Editor), Wynne Wright (Editor), Wynne (Michigan State University) Wright (Editor), Wright Wynne (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2008
• EAN: 9780271032757
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03275-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Karten
• Series: Rural Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Manufacturing industries, Consumerism, Agriculture & Related Industries, Food Manufacturing & Related Industries, Political activism / Political engagement