A Place-Based Perspective of Food in Society [recurso electrónico

This book provides an outstanding collection of interdisciplinary and international essays examining the food-place relationship. It explores such topics as the history of food and agriculture, the globalization and localization of food, and the role of place in defining not only the how, why, when, and with whom we eat, but the broader societal consequences of this ever-changing phenomena. With the interdisciplinary nature of this volume comes a multitude of perspectives on what those broader social consequences are, how they came to be, and what ought to be done to solve those issues we find most pressing, such as the global food crisis. While the specific angle each author takes on these issues may differ in some instances, each of them share an acute recognition of the interplay between food and place, and how that relationship becomes crucial for comprehending the problems we face and, in turn, what the proper solutions may be Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 The Origins and Propagation of Agriculture: The Formation of the Contemporary Diet....Pages 9-35 Agricultural Industrialization and the Presence of the “Local” in the Global Food World....Pages 37-57 Lessons from the Past: A Historical Overview of the Place-Food Relationship....Pages 59-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Ways of Knowing the World: The Role of Knowledge and Food Movements in the Food-Place Nexus....Pages 83-102 Modern Southern Food: An Examination of the Intersection of Place, Race, Class, and Gender in the Quest for Authenticity....Pages 103-119 Distinction, Disdain, and Gentrification: Hipsters, Food People, and the Ethnic Other in Brooklyn, New York....Pages 121-139 Front Matter....Pages 141-141 The Political Economy of Food and Agriculture in the United States and Russia....Pages 143-163 Power and Place in Food Systems: From Global to Local....Pages 165-185 The Death of Distance: Food Deserts Across the Global Divide....Pages 187-200 Front Matter....Pages 201-201 Place-Based Responses to the Global Food Economy....Pages 203-220 Troubling Place in Alternative Food Practices: Food Movements, Neoliberalism, and Place....Pages 221-240 Toward Economies That Won’t Leave: Utilizing a Community Food Systems Model to Develop Multisector Sustainable Economies in Rural Southeastern North Carolina....Pages 241-266 Back Matter....Pages 267-281