Savoring Alternative Food: School gardens, healthy eating and visceral difference

ISBN-13: 9780415844239 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 208 str.

Jessica Hayes-Conroy

Opis

Advocates of the alternative food movement often insist that food is our common ground - that through the very basic human need to eat, we all become entwined in a network of mutual solidarity. In this challenging book, the author explores the contradictions and shortcomings of alternative food activism by examining specific endeavours of the movement through various lenses of social difference - including class, race, gender, and age. While the solidarity adage has inspired many, it is shown that this has also had the unfortunate effect of promoting sameness over difference, eschewing inequities in an effort to focus on being together at the table. The author explores questions of who belongs at the table of alternative food, and who gets to decide what is eaten there; and what is at stake when alternative food practices become the model for what is right to eat? Case studies are presented based on fieldwork in two distinct loci of alternative food organizing: school gardens and slow food movements in Berkeley, California and rural Nova Scotia.

Spis treści

Introduction – Eating Sea Urchin for Breakfast  Part 1: Table Settings  1. Exploring Visceral (Re)Actions  2. Doing Visceral Research  3. Knowing Food  Part 2: Tasting Difference  4. A Tale of Two Dinners  5. It’s Not Just About the Collard Greens  6. Real Men Eat Raw Onions  7. We Run it All Off!  Part 3: Policy and Practice  8. Food Pedagogies  Conclusion – A Thousand Tiny Eithers; A Thousand Tiny Ors  References

O autorze

Jessica Hayes-Conroy is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, USA.