Ferne Edwards is pleased to announce the publication of the monograph, ‘Food Resistance Movements: Journeying through Alternative Food Networks’. It will be of interest for critical food geographers, anthropologists, urban scholars and political ecologists.
This book charts her journey as a cultural anthropologist through three food resistance movements over almost twenty years. In Australia, freegans’ consumption of ‘garbage’ in the food waste movement of the early 2000s reveals the extent of food going to waste from commercial sources while people go hungry. In contrast, Venezuela’s food sovereignty movement is part of a national transition from a capitalist to socialist economy, highlighting processes of decentralisation, collectivisation, and government-grassroots’ coalitions. The study of autonomous spaces in Catalonia illuminates how food sharing can enable people to live their politics, as well as the centrality of issues around urban governance, consumption, technology and use of space to food resistance efforts.
It is available from the publisher’s website. If you are interested in reviewing a copy, please contact Springer via their webiste.