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Hidden Hands in the Market
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Hidden Hands in the Market

Engages with a range of alternative ethical perspectives and the initiatives to which they give rise. This book features case studies that covers a range of places, commodities and initiatives, including Fair Trade and organic production activism in Hungary, Fair Trade coffee in Costa Rica and handicrafts made in Indonesia.

Reimagining Marginalized Foods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Reimagining Marginalized Foods

This volume brings together ethnographically based anthropological analyses of shifting meanings and representations associated with the foods, ingredients, and cooking practices of marginalized and/or indigenous cultures. Contributors are particularly interested in how these foods intersect with politics, nationhood and governance, identity, authenticity, and conservation. The chapters cover diverse locales, issues, and foods...A conceptual essay on food and social boundaries rounds out the collection. Throughout, the contributors address important questions...(and) provide a thoughtful inquiry into what happens when food and culinary practices are moved from cultural physical margins, and how such movements can be shaped by- and employed in the pursuit of- political, social, and cultural goals. -- Book Jacket.

Transforming Places
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Transforming Places

In this era of globalization's ruthless deracination, place attachments have become increasingly salient in collective mobilizations across the spectrum of politics. Like place-based activists in other resource-rich yet impoverished regions across the globe, Appalachians are contesting economic injustice, environmental degradation, and the anti-democratic power of elites. This collection of seventeen original essays by scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds explores this wide range of oppositional politics, querying its successes, limitations, and impacts. The editors' critical introduction and conclusion integrate theories of place and space with analyses of organizations and ...

Taking Food Public
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 654

Taking Food Public

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The field of food studies has been growing rapidly over the last thirty years and has exploded since the turn of the millennium. Scholars from an array of disciplines have trained fresh theoretical and methodological approaches onto new dimensions of the human relationship to food. This anthology capitalizes on this particular cultural moment to bring to the fore recent scholarship that focuses on innovative ways people are recasting food in public spaces to challenge hegemonic practices and meanings. Organized into five interrelated sections on food production – consumption, performance, Diasporas, and activism – articles aim to provide new perspectives on the changing meanings and uses of food in the twenty-first century.

Gender and Race Through Education and Political Activism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248
Dental Dimensions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

Dental Dimensions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Spin Alternative Record Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 492

Spin Alternative Record Guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Vintage

America's premiere alternative music magazine presents a book of outrageously opinionated reviews of the essential albums of punk, new wave, indie rock, grunge, and rap. Its abundantly illustrated, full-color pages provide in-depth and informative record reviews on the widest possible scale of alternative music. National ads/media.

Science and Government Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Science and Government Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Hollywood Music Industry Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Hollywood Music Industry Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The premiere edition is for aspiring musicians and professionals alike, the new directory will have information for finding contacts to submit a demo tape, secure a music contract, license a song, find an agent to book a concert tour and more.

AAA Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 614

AAA Guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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