1st Edition
Global Foodscapes Oppression and resistance in the life of food
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: The world upstream of the farm
Chapter Two: Agricultural foodscapes
Chapter Three: Food processing
Chapter Four: The foodscapes of selling of food
Chapter Five: Food consumption
Index
Biography
Alistair Fraser is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland. His research is diverse in nature – cutting across political, economic, and cultural geography – and includes journal articles on land reform in South Africa, scale in political practice, and music.
"With both insight and a point of view, Alistair Fraser provides a highly readable and informative primer to the world of food, from seed to bodily metabolism. Going beyond the usual treatise on the big, bad food system, and the anger it engenders, the author includes examples of resistance, designed to inspire hope, as well. Students will love its clarity and accessible prose; instructors will love its breadth and teachable organization."
Julie Guthman, Professor of Social Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
"Alistair Fraser captures the layered, deeply social, and always contested nature of what and how we eat. Written in a style that is provocative and playful, Global Foodscapes critiques food worlds while giving equal attention to spaces of resistance, thus giving readers hope for the future."
Michael S. Carolan, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA.
