Moya Kneafsey, Damian Maye, Lewis Holloway, Michael K. Goodman

Geographies of Food (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between food, place, and space, providing students with an introduction to the contemporary and future geographies of food and the powerful role that food plays in our everyday lives.

Geographies of Food explores contemporary food issues and crises in all their dimensions, as well as the many solutions currently being proposed. Drawing on global case studies from the Majority and Minority Worlds, it analyses the complex relationships operating between people and processes at a range of geographical scales, from the shopping decisions of consumers in a British or US supermarket, to food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa, to the high-level political negotiations at the World Trade Organization and the strategies of giant American and European agri-businesses whose activities span several continents.

With over 60 color images and a range of lively pedagogical features, Geographies of Food is essential reading for undergraduates studying food and geography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472521040
• Artikelnr.: 60770881

Autorenporträt

Moya Kneafsey is Professor of Human Geography, Food, and Local Development at the Centre for Agroecology, Water, and Resilience at Coventry University, UK.
Damian Maye is Professor of Agri-Food Studies at the Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire, UK.
Lewis Holloway is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Hull, UK.
Michael K. Goodman is Professor of Geography at the University of Reading, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of figures List of tables List of boxes List of activities
Insights Preface Acknowledgements Dedication Part 1: The Place of Food
Chapter 1: Introducing Geographies of Food 1.1 Introduction 1.2 What are
food geographies? 1.2.1 Multiple food meanings 1.2.2 Food, place, space and
scale 1.2.3 Mobilities and transformation: power and control 1.3
Geographical imaginations and food's geographies 1.4 Structure of the book
Chapter 2: Food and Place Identity 2.1 Introduction 2.2Making food and
making places: landscapes, nations and labour 2.3 Moving food and making
places: placing and displacing 2.3.1 Placing food: the case of 'terroir'
2.3.2 Displacing and placing food: migrant cuisines 2.3.3 Placing diets 2.4
Summary 2.5 Further reading Part 2: Geographies of Food Production,
Transformation and Consumption Chapter 3: Geographies and Politics of
Agricultural Production 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Geographies of food
production: a global perspective 3.2.1 A global typology of primary food
production systems 3.2.2 Overcoming the land-bias: the role of fisheries
and marine management 3.2.3 Back to the land: global levels of food
production 3.2.4 Geographical distribution of agricultural land 3.3
Agro-food commodity chains: product sector geographies 3.3.1 Cereals
production 3.3.2 Fruit and vegetables 3.3.3 Meat and the changing chicken
3.3.4 Spatial concentration, newly agriculturalising economies and
relational assemblages 3.4 Producing food in the city: urban agriculture
3.5 Agricultural policy: political geographies of food production 3.5.1 The
US Farm Bill 3.5.2 The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 3.5.3 Comparing the
US Farm Bill and the CAP 3.6 Summary 3.7 Further reading Chapter 4: What
Happens to Food: Geographies of Mobility and Transformation 4.1
Introduction 4.2 Mobility and transformations: geographies and
relationships 4.3 Transforming agriculture and food under capitalism: the
agrarian question 4.4 Liberalising food mobility: global trade policy and
global food regimes 4.5 Government intervention, global food governance and
free trade 4.5.1 From protectionism to free trade 4.5.2 Trading blocs and
subsidy debates 4.5.3 Anti-politics and trade disputes 4.6 Global food
trading: mobilising High Value Foods (HVFs) 4.7 'Big Food': transforming
and industrialising food 4.8 Working in farming and food processing: the
human cost 4.9 Wasting food in industrialised food systems 4.10 Summary
4.11 Further reading Chapter 5: Eating Geographies: The Spaces and Cultures
of Food Consumption 5.1 Introducing the geographies of eating 5.2 The
shifting geographies of food consumption 5.3 Food's cultural geographies:
eating space(s), places and connections 5.3.1 The spaces of food: the
foodscapes of acquisition and access 5.3.2 The cultural spaces of food: the
city, home and eating on the run 5.3.3 Eating the cosmopolitan city 5.3.4
Home cooking and eating 5.3.5 Eating bodies: making spatial and cultural
connections through identities 5.4 Eating geographical politics and ethics
5.4.1 Vegetarianism, veganism and low carbon diets 5.4.2 Food provenance:
knowing your food 5.5 Summary: eating space, place and scale 5.6 Further
reading Part 3: Geographies of Food Crisis and Response Chapter 6: Food
Systems in Crisis? The New Food Insecurity 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The
contours of the world food crisis 6.2.1Food prices and the 2007-08 price
spike 6.3 The new food security debate 6.4 Explaining the 2007-2008 food
price crisis: the new fundamentals 6.4.1Climate change and food insecurity
6.5 Financial speculation and the food crisis 6.5.1 Financial markets and
agricultural derivatives 6.5.2 Food speculation, food prices and food
security 6.6 Other critical interpretations of the food crisis and food
insecurity 6.7 Summary 6.8 Further reading Chapter 7: The Fight against
Hunger and Malnutrition in the Majority World 7.1Introduction 7.2 The scale
and geography of hunger and malnutrition in the Majority World 7.2.1
Defining hunger and malnutrition 7.2.2. Where do hunger and malnutrition
occur? 7.3 Causes of hunger and malnutrition in the Majority World 7.3.1
Poverty, Inequality and Conflict 7.3.2 International structural
inequalities 7.4 The international response to hunger and malnutrition:
from Green Revolution to the Sustainable Development Goals 7.4.1 The Green
Revolution 7.4.2 The World Food Conference and the World Food Summits 7.4.3
The Millennium Development Goals 7.4.4 The Sustainable Development Goals
7.5From corporate power to people power: the rise of food sovereignty
7.5Summary 7.6Further reading Chapter 8: Food Insecurity Amidst Wealth 8.1
Introduction 8.2 Food insecurity in the 21st Century: scale, causes and
consequences 8.2.1 What is food insecurity in rich countries? 8.2.2 The
scale of food insecurity 8.2.3 The experience of food insecurity 8.2.4
Causes of food insecurity: Poverty, deprivation and food deserts 2.4.1
Poverty and deprivation 2.4.2 Food deserts 8.3 Solutions to food insecurity
8.3.1 Charitable food aid and the role of corporations 8.3.2 The right to
food 8.3.3 Food sovereignty movements in wealthy countries 8.3.4 The
movement for food justice 8.4. Summary 8.5 Further reading Chapter 9
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food 9.1 Introduction 9.2 AFNs:
definition and geography 9.2.1 Defining AFNs 9.2.2Alternative food
geography: reclaiming space and place 9.3 'First Generation' AFNs: locality
foods, local food networks and fair trade 9.3.1 Commodity circuits and
geographical knowledges: the case of locality foods 9.3.2 Local food
networks: relations-of-proximity 9.3.3 Farmers' markets: purpose and
benefits 9.3.4 Social embeddedness, geographies of regard and an ethic of
care in AFNs 9.3.5 The 'local trap' and further critiques of AFNs 9.4 Fair
Trade networks: The moral economy of getting to know your coffee farmer
9.4.1Fair Trade: connecting places and development through alternative
markets 9.4.2Into the mainstream and into the (fairer) future 9.5 'Second
generation' AFNs and sustainability transitions 9.5.1 The Local Food
programme in England 9.5.2 Food hubs and solidarity purchasing groups 9.5.3
Food security, transition theory and grassroots social innovations 9.5.4
Civic food networks 9.6 Summary 9.7 Further reading Part 4: Geographies of
Possible Food Futures Chapter 10: Future Scenarios for Sustainable Food and
Farming 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Towards sustainable food 10.3 Beyond
productivist agriculture and 'big food': competing emergent paradigms and
'food wars' 10.4 Technocentric approaches: sustainability through science?
10.5 Ecocentric approaches: sustainability through agroecology? 10.6
Sustainable diets and a decentralised food politics 10.6.1 Towards
reflexive food governance? 10.6.2 Digital foodscapes and food citizenship
10.7 Summary 10.8 Further reading Chapter 11: Conclusions 11.1 Introduction
11.2 Aftertaste - key themes revisited 11.2.1 Multiple food geographies
11.2.2 The co-production of food, place, space and scale 11.2.3 Mobilities,
transformation, power and control 11.3 Changing the food system: putting
ourselves in the mix 11.4 Last bites for food citizens References Index