{"id":5959,"date":"2021-08-06T20:16:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T00:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2021-08-06T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T00:16:07","slug":"ebook-for-equity-the-new-food-activism-opposition-cooperation-and-collective-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2021\/08\/06\/ebook-for-equity-the-new-food-activism-opposition-cooperation-and-collective-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebook for Equity: \u201cThe new food activism : opposition, cooperation, and collective action\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Ebook for Equity time!\u00a0 \u00a0 This week&#8217;s featured book is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www-jstor-org.5colauthen.library.umass.edu\/stable\/10.1525\/j.ctt1pv88qh\">The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action &#8221; <\/a>\u00a0 edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the summary from the abstract:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New and exciting forms of food\u00a0<strong data-auto=\"strong_text\">activism<\/strong>\u00a0are emerging as supporters of sustainable agriculture increasingly recognize the need for a broader, more strategic and more politicized food politics that engages with questions of\u00a0<strong data-auto=\"strong_text\">social<\/strong>, racial, and economic\u00a0<strong data-auto=\"strong_text\">justice<\/strong>. This book highlights examples of campaigns to restrict industrial agriculture&#8217;s use of pesticides and other harmful technologies, struggles to improve the pay and conditions of workers throughout the food system, and alternative projects that seek to de-emphasize notions of individualism and private ownership. Grounded in over a decade of scholarly critique of food\u00a0<strong data-auto=\"strong_text\">activism<\/strong>, this volume seeks to answer the question of &#8220;what next,&#8221; inspiring scholars, students, and activists toward collective, cooperative, and oppositional struggles for\u00a0<strong data-auto=\"strong_text\">change<\/strong>.&#8221;&#8211;Provided by publisher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2021\/08\/FoodActivism.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5961\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2021\/08\/FoodActivism.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover of book: Food Activism\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Ebook for Equity time!\u00a0 \u00a0 This week&#8217;s featured book is &#8220;The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action &#8221; \u00a0 edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman. Here&#8217;s the summary from the abstract: &#8220;New and exciting forms of food\u00a0activism\u00a0are emerging as supporters of sustainable agriculture increasingly recognize &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":5961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51554,21726],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-books-for-equity","category-spotlight","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5962,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions\/5962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}