The Well-being of Latinx Farmworkers in a Time of Change

ISBN-13: 9783031190469 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 263 str.

Lisa Meierotto;Teresa Mares;Seth M. Holmes

Opis

This book explores the well-being of Latinx farmworkers living and laboring in the United States. The contributions take a deeper look at the lived experiences of farmworkers. The chapters explore the various ways in which well-being is framed in diverse academic disciplines, and how the concept of well-being has been employed in previous research on Latinx farmworkers. This volume appeals to students, researchers and professionals. Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values Volume 37, issue 1, March 2020 Chapters Governance for global stewardship: can private certification move beyond commodification in fostering sustainability transformations? and Constructing freshness: the vitality of wet markets in urban China are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Spis treści

Gluten aversion is not limited to the political left.- What is technology adoption? Exploring the agricultural research value chain for smallholder farmers in Lao PDR.- “Modern” farming and the transformation of livelihoods in rural Tanzania.- Density of resident farmers and rural inhabitants’ relationship to agriculture: operationalizing complex social interactions with a structural equation model.- Governance for global stewardship: can private certification move beyond commodification in fostering sustainability transformations?.- Plastic scraps: biodegradable mulch films and the aesthetics of ‘good farming’ in US specialty crop production.- Moral conflicts, premises and the social dimension of agricultural sustainability.- Malign and benign neglect: a local food system and the myth of sustainable redevelopment in Appalachia Ohio.- “Going local”: farmers’ perspectives on local food systems in rural Canada.- Women farmers in developed countries: a literature review.- Responding to the problem of ‘food security’ in animal cruelty policy debates: building alliances between animal-centred and human-centred work on food system issues.- Constructing freshness: the vitality of wet markets in urban China.- Introduction to the symposium: Bienestar—the well-being of Latinx farmworkers in a time of change.- Using chiles and comics to address the physical and emotional wellbeing of farmworkers in Vermont’s borderlands.- Food provisioning strategies among Latinx farm workers in southwestern Idaho.- Health by mail: mail order medication practices of Latinx dairy worker households on the northern US border.- Migrant farmworker injury: temporality, statistical representation, eventfulness.- Correction to: Migrant farmworker injury: temporality, statistical representation, eventfulness.- Mark Schapiro: Seeds of resistance—the fight to save our food supply.- Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, Aijuan Chen (eds): Organic food and farming in China: top-down and bottom-up ecological initiatives.- Peter Dauvergne: Will big business destroy the planet?.- Erin McKenna: Livestock: food, fiber, and friends.- Maria J. Veri and Rita Liberti: Gridiron gourmet: gender and food at the football tailgate.- Books Received.

O autorze

Lisa Meierotto earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Washington, with a specialization in Environmental Anthropology. She also has an MA in International Development, Environment and Community Development from Clark University. Dr. Meierotto teaches in the Global Studies and Environmental Studies programs at in the School of Public Service at Boise State University. Her research interests center on environmental justice, human rights, global migration, sustainable agriculture, and inclusive conservation. She is currently the Interim Director of the Marilyn Shuler Human Rights Initiative in the School of Public Service.

Teresa Mares is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and is the Associate Director for the Graduate Program in Food Systems. She received her M.A. (2005) and Ph.D. (2010) in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington. She also completed a graduate certificate in Women Studies at the University of Washington.

Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD, is on faculty in the Division of Society and Environment of the Department of Environmental Science, Policty, and Management.  He is a member of the faculty of the Joint PhD Program in Medical Anthropology and affiliated faculty in the Department of Anthropology as well as affiliated faculty in the Division of Community Health Sciences and the Joint Medical MD/MS Program in the School of Public Health.  He is Co-Chair of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine and Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.  A cultural and medical anthropologist and physician, he has worked on social hierarchies, health inequities, and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized, and resisted in the context of transnational im/migration, agro-food systems, and health care.  He has received national and international awards from the fields of anthropology, sociology, and geography, including the Margaret Mead Award. In addition to scholarly publications, he has written for popular media such as The Huffington Post  and Salon.com  and spoken on multiple NPR, PRI, Pacifica Radio and Radio Bilingüe radio programs. 

Blurb

This book explores the well-being of Latinx farmworkers living and laboring in the United States. The contributions take a deeper look at the lived experiences of farmworkers. The chapters explore the various ways in which well-being is framed in diverse academic disciplines, and how the concept of well-being has been employed in previous research on Latinx farmworkers.  This volume appeals to students, researchers and professionals.  

Previously published as a Special Issue in the journal: Agriculture and Human Values "Symposium on the Well-being of Latinx Framworkers in a Time of Change"

Chapters Governance for global stewardship: can private certification move beyond commodification in fostering sustainability transformations? and Constructing freshness: the vitality of wet markets in urban China are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.