
Together at the Table
Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System
Patricia Allen
Together at the Table
Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System
Patricia Allen
“In Together at the Table, sociologist Patricia Allen offers a timely analysis of the discourse and practices of two prominent alternative agrifood movements in the United States: sustainable agriculture and community food security. These movements have contributed significantly to pushing dominant agrifood institutions in a direction that is more environmentally sound and socially just. . . . Together at the Table . . . will be of immense value to anyone wanting to understand how alternative agrifood movements can transform the current agrifood system.”
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Together at the Table is an important reminder that much work still remains to be done. Now that the ideas and priorities of alternative food movements have taken hold, it is time for the next—even more challenging—step. Alternative agrifood movements must acknowledge and address the deeper structural and cultural patterns that constrain the long-term resolution of social and environmental problems in the agrifood system.
“In Together at the Table, sociologist Patricia Allen offers a timely analysis of the discourse and practices of two prominent alternative agrifood movements in the United States: sustainable agriculture and community food security. These movements have contributed significantly to pushing dominant agrifood institutions in a direction that is more environmentally sound and socially just. . . . Together at the Table . . . will be of immense value to anyone wanting to understand how alternative agrifood movements can transform the current agrifood system.”
“Scholars, consumers, and activists interested in the alternative food movement will find this book useful. Allen does a fine job of addressing her objective.”
Patricia Allen is Director of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Contents
Acronyms
Acknowledgments
1. Sustainability and Sustenance in the Agrifood System
2. Perspectives of Alternative Agrifood Movements: Issues and Concepts
3. Landscapes of Alternative Agrifood Movements: Institutional Integration and Construction
4. Discourses, Epistemologies, and Practices of Sustainability and Sustenance
5. Reflections on Ideologies Embedded in Alternative Agrifood Movements
6. Participation and Power in Alternative Agrifood Movements and Institutions
7. Politics of Complacency? Rethinking Food System Localization
8. The Politics of Sustainability and Sustenance
9. Working Toward Sustainability and Sustenance
References
Index
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