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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"food geographies"”.
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Sick ‘scapes : boutique and corporate food geographies and Mexico’s public health crisis
… and diabetes-ridden countries in the world. Its food landscape has been completely transformed. An examination of the current panorama reveals a neoliberal foodscape arranged to reinforce and deepen pre-existing health, gender, race, and class inequalities. Throughout the country there is an …
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Black Food Geographies and the Politics of Resistance in the Brick City. An Intersectional Analysis of Black Food Provisioning Practices, Food Access, and Racial Food Inequities in Newark, New Jersey from 1666 – 2020
<p>This work studied Black food geographies in Newark, NJ, which represent alternative food provisioning practices and strategies working within but also parallel to traditional food geographies and exist within and despite of foodscapes of domination. Black food geographies not only include the …
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Towards an understanding of a changing food system in Mauritius: A case study of rural and urban Mauritius
… lifestyles, people abandon their traditional foods and adopt a Western diet which largely consists of energy-dense, nutritionally poor and highly processed foods. The nutrition transition, the underlying causes and its subsequent impacts on public health are well documented in the literature. …
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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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Fields, restaurants, grocers, abattoir : food spaces in Austin, Texas
… the past and the present, related in some way to food production or consumption. They are: spinach fields from the first decades of the twentieth century when the Austin-area was one of the leading spinach-producing regions in the U.S.; a public abattoir (slaughterhouse) operated from 1931 to …
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Enacting other foodworlds: Affective food initiatives performing a care-full politics of difference
Food scholarship has struggled with what to make of alternative food initiatives (AFIs), both practically and politically. The surge of interest in AFIs in the past few decades has focused on the ways that AFIs might operate independently of capitalist, anonymous and mass-production processes, and …