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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Jen[/i] [br]Might be a bit on the academic side, but sounds interesting.... Title: "The Fight Over Food: Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System" Editors: Wynne Wright and Gerad Middendorf Publisher: Penn State Press Summary: We are confronting a food and agriculture system that is being restructured in both subtle and highly politicized ways, from campaigns to prevent animal cruelty, to the now routine on-site protests against the opening of McDonald's restaurants around the world, to the rise in a new entrepreneurial ethos in producers, and a heightened reflexivity among consumers. The essays found in "The Fight Over Food" analyze and evaluate both the theoretical and historical contexts of the agrifood system and the ways in which trends of individual action and collective activity have led to an 'accumulation of resistance' that greatly affects the mainstream market of food production. The overarching theme that integrates the case studies in this volume is the role of human agency and the ways in which people purposely and creatively generate new forms of action or resistance to facilitate social changes within the structure of predominant cultural norms. Together these studies examine whether these combined efforts will have the strength to create significant and enduring transformations in the food system. This volume is especially targeted toward classroom adoption with pedagogical aids incorporated with each chapter. Available for order: Immediately (shipment date: January 2,2008) To Order: Call 800-326-9180 or visit the PSP link: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03274-0.html Jen [green]Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9[/green] The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.