A Place-Based Perspective of Food in Society

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
The Origins and Propagation of Agriculture: The Formation of the Contemporary Diet....Pages 9-35
Agricultural Industrialization and the Presence of the “Local” in the Global Food World....Pages 37-57
Lessons from the Past: A Historical Overview of the Place-Food Relationship....Pages 59-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Ways of Knowing the World: The Role of Knowledge and Food Movements in the Food-Place Nexus....Pages 83-102
Modern Southern Food: An Examination of the Intersection of Place, Race, Class, and Gender in the Quest for Authenticity....Pages 103-119
Distinction, Disdain, and Gentrification: Hipsters, Food People, and the Ethnic Other in Brooklyn, New York....Pages 121-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
The Political Economy of Food and Agriculture in the United States and Russia....Pages 143-163
Power and Place in Food Systems: From Global to Local....Pages 165-185
The Death of Distance: Food Deserts Across the Global Divide....Pages 187-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Place-Based Responses to the Global Food Economy....Pages 203-220
Troubling Place in Alternative Food Practices: Food Movements, Neoliberalism, and Place....Pages 221-240
Toward Economies That Won’t Leave: Utilizing a Community Food Systems Model to Develop Multisector Sustainable Economies in Rural Southeastern North Carolina....Pages 241-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-281