Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail - Softcover

Barndt, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551930420 ISBN 13: 9781551930428

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

Where does our food come from? And what impact does its production have on the earth, on the women workers who move it from field to table, and on all who eat it? Tangled Routes follows a corporate—commodified and chemicalized—tomato from a Mexican field through the United States to a Canadian table, examining in its wake the dynamic relation between production and consumption, work and technology, health and environment, biodiversity and cultural diversity.
After tracing the tomato's journey through space and time (routes and roots), three case studies—a Mexican agribusiness, a Canadian supermarket, and a U.S.-owned fast-food restaurant—offer a view of globalization from above (corporate profiles), globalization from below (stories of women who plant, pick, pack, scan, slice, and sell tomatoes), and 'the other globalization' (acts of resistance and alternatives to the corporate model).
Tangled Routes grew out of a unique six-year collaborative project involving feminist academics, activists, and popular educators from Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Written in an accessible style and illustrated with more than 100 photographs, this critical introduction to complex issues ends with signs of hope—creative responses by local and global movements for social justice and environmental sustainability.
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Review

Tangled Routes follows a corporate-commodified and chemicalized-tomato from a Mexican field through the United States to a Canadian table.

About the Author

Deborah Barndt is a popular educator and photographer who teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. For over 25 years, she has worked with social justice movements in Canada, the U.S., and Central America. Her photographs have been published and exhibited widely, and her extensive publications include Education and Social Change: A Photographic Study of Peru, To Change This House: Popular Education under the Sandinistas, Naming the Moment: Political Analysis for Action, and Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food, and Globalization (editor).

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551930420
• ISBN 13: 9781551930428
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288