Geographies of Food and Power

ISBN-13: 9780367747664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 200 str.

Amy Trauger

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the production and consumption of food, suitable for use in undergraduate classrooms, either at the intermediate or advanced level.

Spis treści

Part 1: Food and Power  Chapter 1 – The Geographies of Food  Chapter 2 – Geography and Power  Part 2: Food for Thought  Chapter 3 – The Origins of Food  Chapter 4 – The Nexus of Production and Consumption  Chapter 5 – Food System Contradictions  Chapter 6 – The Right to Food  Part 3: What We Eat  Chapter 7 – Produce: Fruits and Vegetables  Chapter 8 – Seeds: Grains, Pulses and Nuts  Chapter 9 – Protein: Meat, Fish, Dairy and Eggs  Chapter 10 – Tropical Commodities: Beverages, Fruits, Sugar and Spices  Chapter 11 – Not Food: Ingredients and Additives  Part 4: Challenges in the Global Food System  Chapter 12 – Labor  Chapter 13 – Conflict and Disasters  Chapter 14 – Climate Change  Chapter 15 – The Future of Food

O autorze

Amy Trauger is Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. She is Affiliate Faculty with UGA’s Institute for Women’s Studies, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute and the Center for Integrative Conservation Research. Her research interests include: food sovereignty, sustainable and alternative agriculture, human-environment interactions, gender and agriculture, and indigenous political struggle. She's taught the Geography of Food and the Athens Urban Food Collective courses at UGA nearly every year since she arrived in 2008. Before that, she taught the Geography of Sustainability at Penn State University. She has written, edited and collaborated on four books on the topics of food, agriculture and the environment. Her book, We Want Land to Live, (2017) is used in graduate and advanced undergraduate classes in the US. Her work is widely used by professors teaching courses on the geography of food and agriculture, including Iowa State University, West Virginia University, Tufts University, Cornell and Washington State.