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The Visible Hands That Feed approaches the food sector against the backdrop of its pivotal role for social and ecological relations to trace the potentials and limitations for sustainable change from within.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part 1. Introduction
1. Navigating Food Supply Chains to Find Seeds of Sustainable Futures
2. Opposing Agendas and Fragmented Realities in the Food Sector
Part 2. Responsibility
3. The Sway of Demand in the Afterlife of Consumption
4. The Inconsistencies of Audit Culture in the Food Sector
5. Perseverant Partial Responsibilities for Others
Part 3. Growth
6. Strategic Scalability of Social Connectedness
7. Embracing and Rejecting the Vision of Growth in Practice
8. How Compromises Compromise Totalizing Visions
Part 4. Conclusions
9. Implications for Rethinking and Reshaping Food Systems
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Ruzana Liburkina is a cultural anthropologist and a research associate in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany.
Summary
The Visible Hands That Feed approaches the food sector against the backdrop of its pivotal role for social and ecological relations to trace the potentials and limitations for sustainable change from within.
