More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change: 60 (California Studies in Food and Culture) - Hardcover

Broad, Garrett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520287444 ISBN 13: 9780520287440

Publisher: California University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The industrial food system has created a crisis in the United States that is characterized by abundant food for privileged citizens and "food deserts" for the historically marginalized. In response, food justice activists based in low-income communities of color have developed community-based solutions, arguing that activities like urban agriculture, nutrition education, and food-related social enterprises can drive systemic social change. Focusing on the work of several food justice groups - including Community Services Unlimited, a South Los Angeles organization founded as the nonprofit arm of the Southern California Black Panther Party - More Than Just Food explores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach, offering a networked examination of the food justice movement in the age of the nonprofit industrial complex.

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Review:

"More Than Just Food offers critical perspectives on food justice projects--from what Broad characterizes as more obviously flawed white-savior-outsider-led endeavors to the more sympathetically portrayed but still imperfect CSU."--International Journal of Communication

"Broad's rich, complex ethnography provides an antidote to simplified research in to the work of non-profit food organisations. More than Just Food provides much insight into grassroots, community led food movements adapting to their situated circumstances."--Environmental Values

About the Author:

Garrett M. Broad is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University.

About this edition

• Publisher: California University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0520287444
• ISBN 13: 9780520287440
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296