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Food Geographies

Social, Political, and Ecological Connections

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

What is the significance of food in our everyday lives? Food Geographies addresses this broad question by examining the social, political, and ecological connections that food weaves between people and places across the world and revealing the centrality of food in the human experience. This interdisciplinary and systemic perspective provides readers with key concepts, analytical tools, and critical skills to better understand and address the many issues facing the contemporary food system, including food insecurity, environmental degradation, climate change, labor exploitation, social inequality, power imbalance in decision making, and threats to health and well-being. It takes readers to places including modern plantations in Peru, collective farms in Tanzania, food halls in France, home kitchens in Japan, community gardens in Brazil, pubs in England, and animal feeding operations in America. By raising important questions about the current system, readers will explore ways to enact meaningful change to build better future food geographies by producing, consuming, and engaging with food differently.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 342 • Trim: 7½ x 10¾
978-1-5381-2664-6 • Hardback • February 2022 • $136.00 • (£105.00)
978-1-5381-2665-3 • Paperback • February 2022 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
978-1-5381-2666-0 • eBook • February 2022 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
Series: Exploring Geography
Subjects: Science / Earth Sciences / Geography, Cooking / Essays & Narratives, Social Science / Agriculture & Food, Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy, Business & Economics / Industries / Food Industry, Social Science / Human Geography
Courses: Anthropology; Topics; Food & Nutrition, Geography; Human & Cultural; Food, Geography; Human & Cultural; Culture & Politics

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli is professor of geography and director of the Interdisciplinary Food Studies Program at San Diego State University. Her research focuses on the relationship between food, place, and ethnicity, including the role of food in creating just and sustainable cities. She has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is the author of The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification (2021) and the coeditor of Food and Place: A Critical Exploration (2018).

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Preface

Introduction

1Food Geographies

Part 1: Political and Economic Geographies of Food

2Agriculture and Farming

3Global Food Regimes

4Labor Geographies of Food

5Food Connections and Commodity Chains

6Global Food Crises: Hunger and Malnutrition

Part 2: Environmental Geographies of Food

7Food’s Ecological Pillars: Land, Water, and Biodiversity

8Food and Climate Change

9Seafood

Part 3: Social and Cultural Geographies of Food

10Food, Identity, and Difference

11Food in the City

12Food, Kitchens, and Gender

13Food, Bodies, Health, and Nutrition

14New Food Geographies

Reference

Food Geographies is a comprehensive and insightful accounting of the interplay between space, place, and people in food systems. Joassart-Marcelli adeptly demonstrates not only the inherent geographical qualities of food systems but also how food can provide a lens for understanding many social science topics—including poverty, environmental justice, and identity. Especially valuable is the emphasis on critical perspectives and illustrative examples of human–environment relationships. Accessible, yet far-reaching, this textbook is the perfect resource for fostering student understanding of complex and dynamic food systems through a geographic lens.


— Colleen Hammelman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte


Finally, a text that at once covers key developments and concepts in food and geography! This highly accessible introduction will please both students and instructors.


— Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz


Highly accessible and wide-reaching, this textbook is essential for students learning about food and food systems in geography classrooms and beyond. Students will learn how to connect the political, economic, ecological, cultural, social, and lived aspects of food, while being empowered to envision better food-environment futures.


— Allison Hayes-Conroy, Temple University


12/1/23, Faculti: Pascale Joassart-Marcelli discusses the social, political, and ecological connections that food weaves between people and places across the world to reveal the centrality of food in the human experience.

Link: https://faculti.net/food-geographies/



Offers lists of key terms and additional resources at the end of each chapter



Powerpoint slide deck

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Food Geographies

Social, Political, and Ecological Connections

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Summary
Summary
  • What is the significance of food in our everyday lives? Food Geographies addresses this broad question by examining the social, political, and ecological connections that food weaves between people and places across the world and revealing the centrality of food in the human experience. This interdisciplinary and systemic perspective provides readers with key concepts, analytical tools, and critical skills to better understand and address the many issues facing the contemporary food system, including food insecurity, environmental degradation, climate change, labor exploitation, social inequality, power imbalance in decision making, and threats to health and well-being. It takes readers to places including modern plantations in Peru, collective farms in Tanzania, food halls in France, home kitchens in Japan, community gardens in Brazil, pubs in England, and animal feeding operations in America. By raising important questions about the current system, readers will explore ways to enact meaningful change to build better future food geographies by producing, consuming, and engaging with food differently.

Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 342 • Trim: 7½ x 10¾
    978-1-5381-2664-6 • Hardback • February 2022 • $136.00 • (£105.00)
    978-1-5381-2665-3 • Paperback • February 2022 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
    978-1-5381-2666-0 • eBook • February 2022 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
    Series: Exploring Geography
    Subjects: Science / Earth Sciences / Geography, Cooking / Essays & Narratives, Social Science / Agriculture & Food, Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy, Business & Economics / Industries / Food Industry, Social Science / Human Geography
    Courses: Anthropology; Topics; Food & Nutrition, Geography; Human & Cultural; Food, Geography; Human & Cultural; Culture & Politics
Author
Author
  • Pascale Joassart-Marcelli is professor of geography and director of the Interdisciplinary Food Studies Program at San Diego State University. Her research focuses on the relationship between food, place, and ethnicity, including the role of food in creating just and sustainable cities. She has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is the author of The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification (2021) and the coeditor of Food and Place: A Critical Exploration (2018).

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • List of Textboxes, Figures, and Tables

    Preface

    Introduction

    1Food Geographies

    Part 1: Political and Economic Geographies of Food

    2Agriculture and Farming

    3Global Food Regimes

    4Labor Geographies of Food

    5Food Connections and Commodity Chains

    6Global Food Crises: Hunger and Malnutrition

    Part 2: Environmental Geographies of Food

    7Food’s Ecological Pillars: Land, Water, and Biodiversity

    8Food and Climate Change

    9Seafood

    Part 3: Social and Cultural Geographies of Food

    10Food, Identity, and Difference

    11Food in the City

    12Food, Kitchens, and Gender

    13Food, Bodies, Health, and Nutrition

    14New Food Geographies

    Reference

Reviews
Reviews
  • Food Geographies is a comprehensive and insightful accounting of the interplay between space, place, and people in food systems. Joassart-Marcelli adeptly demonstrates not only the inherent geographical qualities of food systems but also how food can provide a lens for understanding many social science topics—including poverty, environmental justice, and identity. Especially valuable is the emphasis on critical perspectives and illustrative examples of human–environment relationships. Accessible, yet far-reaching, this textbook is the perfect resource for fostering student understanding of complex and dynamic food systems through a geographic lens.


    — Colleen Hammelman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte


    Finally, a text that at once covers key developments and concepts in food and geography! This highly accessible introduction will please both students and instructors.


    — Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz


    Highly accessible and wide-reaching, this textbook is essential for students learning about food and food systems in geography classrooms and beyond. Students will learn how to connect the political, economic, ecological, cultural, social, and lived aspects of food, while being empowered to envision better food-environment futures.


    — Allison Hayes-Conroy, Temple University


Features
Features
  • 12/1/23, Faculti: Pascale Joassart-Marcelli discusses the social, political, and ecological connections that food weaves between people and places across the world to reveal the centrality of food in the human experience.

    Link: https://faculti.net/food-geographies/



    Offers lists of key terms and additional resources at the end of each chapter



    Powerpoint slide deck

Resources
Resources
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