1st Edition

Voice and Participation in Global Food Politics

By Alana Mann Copyright 2019
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

As awareness of the commodification of food for profit at the expense of our health and the planet grows, this book foregrounds the communicative dimensions of resistance by food movements. Voice and participation are argued by the author to be the means through which rural and urban communities can, and in many cases do, resist the capture of value by corporate actors and work to democratise... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The capture of voice and value  3. Recovering and reclaiming voice  4. Organising through communication  5. Learning as resistance  6. Participatory by design  7. Conclusion  References

Biography

Alana Mann is Chair of the Department of Media and Communications within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on the engagement of citizens and non-state actors in activism and policy debates to inform the creation of just and sustainable food systems.