Food Studies: Sociology and Social Justice
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 joint meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, Canadian Association for Food Studies, and The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MN88980. Code expires July 15, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
ANTHROPOLOGY // RACE // SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
POLITICAL SCIENCE // GEOGRAPHY // ETHNOGRAPHY
ENVIRONMENT // NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
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Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring
- A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
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On the Rural Economy, Sociology, Geography Henri Lefebvre Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Editors 2022 Spring
- A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work
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Sweetness in the Blood Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes James Doucet-Battle 2021 Spring
- A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
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Black Food Matters Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, Editors 2020 Fall
- An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today
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Decarcerating Disability Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Liat Ben-Moshe 2020 Spring
- This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration
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Grocery Activism The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota Craig B. Upright 2020 Spring
- A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today
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Deadly Biocultures The Ethics of Life-Making Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh R. Krupar 2019 Fall
- A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today
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Fair Trade Rebels Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas Lindsay Naylor 2019 Fall
- Reassessing interpretations of development with a new approach to fair trade
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Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor 2018 Fall
- Observations from the lives of African American domestic workers—back in print
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The River Is in Us Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community Elizabeth Hoover 2017 Fall
- The riveting story of the Mohawk community that fought back against the contamination of its lands
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Subprime Health Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson, Editors 2017 Fall
- Moving beyond discussions of racial genomics, an interdisciplinary exploration of race-based medicine
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Blood Sugar Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2016 Spring
- How contemporary biomedicine has shaped race and racism as America’s health disparities increase
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Freegans Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America Alex V. Barnard 2016 Spring
- Freegans, who try to live on what we throw away, reveal the limits of capitalism but also the limits of consumer activism in changing it
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The Value of Homelessness Managing Surplus Life in the United States Craig Willse 2015 Fall
- How social welfare and social science came to reinforce, not combat, racialized housing insecurity
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Total Liberation The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement David Naguib Pellow 2014 Fall
- All oppression is linked: radical environmental and animal liberation movements in the struggle for social justice
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Body and Soul The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination Alondra Nelson 2013 Fall
- The legacy of the Black Panther Party’s commitment to community health care, a central aspect of its fight for social justice
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Fighting for the Future of Food Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro 2010 Fall
- How activists changed the trajectory of the new agricultural biotechnologies
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Toxic Burn The Grassroots Struggle against the WTI Incinerator Thomas Shevory 2007 Spring
- The economics of trash and the politics behind hazardous waste disposal.