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Title Food transgressions : making sense of contemporary food politics / edited by Michael K. Goodman [and] Colin Sage
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 250 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical food studies
Critical food studies.
Contents 1. Food transgressions : ethics, governance and geographies / Michael K. Goodman and Colin Sage -- 2. Pathways of transformation or transgression? Power relations, ethical space and labour rights in Kenyan agri-food value chains / Valerie Nelson [and others] -- 3. Of red herrings and immutabilities : rethinking Fairtrade's ethics of relationality among cocoa producers / Amanda Berlan and Catherine Dolan -- 4. Greather than the sum of the parts? Unpacking ethics of care within a community supported agriculture scheme / Rosie Cox [and others] -- 5. Polite transgression? Pleasure as economic device and ethical stance in slow food / Federica Davolio and Roberta Sassatelli -- 6. Eating powerful transgressions : (re)assessing the spaces and ethics of organic food in the UK / Michael K. Goodman -- 7. Transgressing retail : supermarkets, liminoid power and the metabolic rift / Jane Dixon, Libby Hattersley and Bronwyn Isaacs -- 8. Making meat collectivities : entanglements of geneticisation, integration and contestation in livestock breeding / Lewis Holloway [and others] -- 9. Making and un-making meat : cultural boundaries, environmental thresholds and dietary transgressions / Colin Sage -- 10. Knowing brand wales : agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance / Carla De Laurentis and Philip Cooke -- 11. Food for poorer people : conventional and 'alternative' transgressions? / Martin Caraher and Elizabeth Dowler
Summary Reconnecting so-called alternative food geographies back to the mainstream food system - especially in light of the discursive and material 'transgressions' currently happening between alternative and conventional food networks, this volume critically interrogates and evaluates what stands for 'food politics' in these spaces of transgression now and in the near future and addresses questions such as: What constitutes 'alternative' food politics specifically and food politics more generally when organic and other 'quality' foods have become mainstreamed? What has been the contribution so far
Notes "First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Food industry and trade -- Political aspects
Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects
Food supply -- Moral and ethical aspects
Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects
Food industry and trade -- Political aspects
Food supply -- Moral and ethical aspects
Lebensmittelproduktion
Lebensmittelindustrie
Ernährungspolitik
Lebensmittelhandel
Agrarhandel
Fairer Handel
Biologisches Lebensmittel
Produzent
Verbraucher
Vernetzung
Form Electronic book
Author Goodman, Michael K.,
Sage, Colin
ISBN 9781315582702
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9781317134220
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