Community Food Initiatives - A Critical Reparative Approach

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations and contestations.

List of contents

Chapter 1. A critical reparative approach towards understanding community food initiatives: Acknowledging hopes and troubles Part 1: CFIs addressing social injustices and inequalities in urban food Chapter 2. Caring in unequal worlds: tracing the hopes and troubles of Community Food Initiatives in Sydney Chapter 3. Understanding vulnerability and resilience of urban food initiatives in Morocco Chapter 4. Spaces of hope and realities beyond the fence: Experiences of urban food providers in South Africa Chapter 5. Good Food for All? Navigating tensions between environmental and social justice concerns in urban community food initiatives Part 2: Cooperatives, cooperation, and concerns in CFIs Chapter 6. Constraint and autonomy in the Swiss ‘local contract farming’ movement Chapter 7. Sustainability conventions in a local organic consumer cooperative in Norway: Hope and trouble of participants Chapter 8. The moral economy of community supported agriculture – hopes and troubles of farmers as community makers Part 3: Commensality, social gatherings and food knowledge in CFIs Chapter 9. White natures, colonial roots, walking tours, and the everyday Chapter 10. Eating (with) the other: Staging hope and trouble through culinary conviviality

About the author

Oona Morrow is an assistant professor of rural sociology at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
Esther Veen is a professor of urban food issues at Aeres University of Applied Sciences Almere, the Netherlands.
Stefan Wahlen is a professor of food sociology at the University of Giessen, Germany.

Summary

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations and contestations.

Product details

• Authors: Oona Veen Morrow
• Assisted by: Oona Morrow (Editor), Esther Veen (Editor), Stefan Wahlen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032049021
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3204902-1
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; NATURE / Natural Resources, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Food & society, Food security & supply, Agricultural science, Agribusiness and primary industries, Cultural studies: food and society, Food security and supply, Primary industries