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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Food politics"”.
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Transforming food politics: community to community's intersectional ecofeminism and food sovereignty
… approach to analyzing problems in the food system and the activism of the food movement. This research undertakes the case of Community to Community, a grassroots organization that employs an intersectional analysis in their activism to center the voices and perspectives of women, to …
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Trucking country : food politics and the transformation of rural life in Postwar America
… political authority, a highly regulated farm and food economy, and collective social values-to a postwar framework of anti-statism, minimal market regulation, and fierce individualism. Trucking and rural truck drivers were at the heart of what I call the "marketing machine," a new kind of food …
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Feeding Temple Town: A Digital Project Exploring Food, Politics, and Community in North Philadelphia
… different avenues, one of which is through food. Food reflects class, culture, gender, labor, urbanization, and it acts as a unique lens into the negative and positive aspects of the new cultural landscape Temple has crafted. The stories shared in this project seek to highlight the hidden …
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The Public Market System of New Orleans: Food Deserts, Food Security, and Food Politics
… New Orleans public markets, the privatization of food, and the "greening" of the city with the creation of the Crescent City Farmers Market and other grass roots food activist efforts. Using qualitative methods, ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation and interviewing, issues of food …
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Soviet Peasants and the "Test of War": Food Politics and the Second World War in the Soviet Countryside, 1939-1945
… relations in the USSR through the prism of food politics. It shows the different roles of food and gender in navigating extreme circumstances in the rapidly changing Soviet villages, while noting peasant agency and the endurance of peasant culture and community. Food and gender influenced …
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Food For Thought: Sustainability, Community-Engaged Teaching and Research, and Critical Food Literacy
<p>Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation. Marion Nestle's Food Politics. Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. The films Food, Inc. and The Future of Food. Debates over the industrialized food and farming system currently circulating in nonfiction books, …
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Land and land grabbing: the case study of the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe in Uganda
… the dynamic of North-South relations and food politics in relation to the trend of “land-grabbing” by foreign investors in sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis focuses on the conceptual and discursive “ecology” surrounding food and land security in the post-colonial, globalized world. The …
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Cultivating the City: Urban Agriculture and Agrarian Questions in Brooklyn, New York
… environmental criticism of the conventional agro-food system, food is now highly politicized. In this context, urban agriculture enjoys renewed interest as a primary space to engage the politics of food. In this dissertation, I explore urban agriculture as a window into food politics. Using the …
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PLANTING RESISTANCE: A history of seed sovereignty
… and ecological significance of the diverse food landscapes created, tended, and reproduced through farmers’ everyday practices. This thesis tells a history of seed sovereignty and excavates the understudied narratives that shaped its political and ecological manifestations. It critically …
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Accounting for taste : regulating food labeling in the "affluent society," 1945-1995
… dissertation traces a transformation in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's governance of food markets during the second half of the 20th century. In response to new correlations between diet and risk of disease, anxieties about (over)abundant food supplies, and changing notions of personal …
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What are the factors that define a Kenyan identity? The case of Kenyan Asians
… perpetuate African subjugation. Race, religion, food, politics, and marriage also emerge as contentious points, with religion posing the most significant challenge. The study responds to these challenges by developing a praxis model for fostering integration between these two communities. …
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The Politics of Bread: State Power, Food Subsidies and Neoliberalization in Hashemite Jordan
This dissertation examines the bread subsidy in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It scrutinizes the socio-political conflicts that surround this policy, the spatial practices that subsume it and the ways in which it is understood and given meaning. Despite repeated attempts by international …
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"Too Poor to Eat": A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps in the United States, 1964-1996
Signed on August 31, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s Food Stamp Act intended to deal with farmer surplus and provide a more nutritious diet for all Americans. Run by the United States Department of Agriculture, and operated as an agriculture program, food stamps remained separated from Johnson’s War on …
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Edible Praxis: Negotiating the Politics of Food and Culture in an Urban Food Desert
… dissertation examines how residents in an urban food desert negotiate the promises of alternative food against the lived experience of trauma. By focusing on the particularities of this site, my research offers a deep cultural reading on the meaning, memory, and movement of food in a space where …