Food Utopias: Reimagining Citizenship, Ethics and Community

ISBN-13: 9781138788497 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 238 str.

Paul Stock; Michael Carolan; Christopher Rosin

Opis

Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements - including the different articulations of local, food miles, seasonality, food justice, food knowledge and food sovereignty - consistently invoke themes around autonomy, sufficiency, cooperation, mutual aid, freedom, and responsibility. In this stimulating and provocative book the authors link these issues to utopias and intentional communities. Using a food utopias framework presented in the introduction, they examine food stories in three interrelated and complementary ways: utopias as critique of existing systems; utopias as engagement with experimentation of the novel, the forgotten, and the hopeful in the future of the food system; and utopias as process that recognizes the time and difficulty inherent in changing the status quo. The chapters address theoretical aspects of food utopias and also present case studies from a range of contexts and regions, including Argentina, Italy, Switzerland and USA. These focus on key issues in contemporary food studies including equity, locality, the sacred, citizenship, community and food sovereignty. Food utopias offers ways forward to imagine a creative and convivial food system.

Spis treści

Foreword: Food Utopias in Perspective  Fred Kirschenmann  Foreword  Wes Jackson  Part 1: Food and Utopias  1. Food Utopias: Hoping the Future of Agriculture  Paul Stock, Michael Carolan, and Christopher Rosin  2. Everyday Life in Utopia: Food  Lyman T. Sargent  Part 2: Emergent Food Utopias  3. From the Nano to the Global Scale: New Utopian Solutions to Food Waste  Grant Shoffstall and Zsuzsa Gille  4. ‘We Should Have a Culture Around Food’: Toward a Sustainable Food Utopia in the Ozark-Ouachita Bioregion  Joshua Lockyer  5. Urban Agriculture as Embedded in the Social and Solidarity Economy Basel: Developing Sustainable Communities  Isidor Walliman  6. Slow Food Presidia: The Nostalgic and the Utopian  Cinzia Piatti  7. Towards Utopias of Prefigurative Politics and Food Sovereignty: Experiences of Politicised Peasant Food Production  Nave Wald  8. Re-Wilding Food Systems: Visceralities, Utopias, Pragmatism, and Practice  Michael Carolan  Part 3: Food, Ethics and Morality  9. Sketching a Global Agro-Ecology Eutopia: The Land Institute in Directional Context  John W. Head  10. Contradictions in Hope and Care: Technological Utopianism, Biosphere II and the Catholic Worker Farms  Paul Stock  11. Spurlock’s Vomit and Visible Food Utopias: Enacting a Positive Politics of Food  Hugh Campbell  Conclusion: An Invitation to Food Utopias  12. Food as Mediator: Opening the Dialogue around Food  Paul Stock, Michael Carolan, and Christopher Rosin