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hoorayleigh's review against another edition
3.0
Lots of good information, but gets a bit dry and repetitive.
lattelibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
What an interesting read! Gleaning information from Holyoke, MA and New Orleans, LA, as well as various other activist communities from around the United States, Gottlieb and Joshi analyze just what food justice is and how activists align their actions with a vision in which the structure of food is reworked into something more sustainable and local.
I found that their analyses were well-thought out and cited, and I learned so much that I'd just never even thought of before, such as how neoliberal globalization have affected the ways that our food is grown, our farmers, and the manner of transporting and accessing such foodstuffs.
With this addition of knowledge under our belts, and with a new means of analyzing our food framework, hopefully we can work towards making such dreams and theories of academia into a reality. Only time and action will tell!
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I found that their analyses were well-thought out and cited, and I learned so much that I'd just never even thought of before, such as how neoliberal globalization have affected the ways that our food is grown, our farmers, and the manner of transporting and accessing such foodstuffs.
With this addition of knowledge under our belts, and with a new means of analyzing our food framework, hopefully we can work towards making such dreams and theories of academia into a reality. Only time and action will tell!
Review cross-listed here!
readingbecs83's review
4.0
Read for my book club at work. Pretty informative and good overview of food justice movement. Many case studies but no policy suggestions. Have a talk with the authors on Friday for work- will see what they have to say!
thomp649's review
2.0
I read this book when it first came out. It was on an airplane. I probably didn't give it the credit due at the time, because I remember thinking that I wasn't learning much from it. I had spoken to quite a few of the same people Anupama Joshi interviewed for the book, and I suspected we had been at the same meetings sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation. Yet it does a great job of pulling the diverse threads of the food movement together between two covers, and it is about as easy to read as idea-driven non-fiction ever gets. Why two stars, then? I re-read it cover to cover quite recently, and while I would still recommend it for newbies in the food world, I was put off by the way it felt like a recruiting pep-talk. Gottlieb and Joshi have not a single good word to say about for-profit actors, especially food retailers and agricultural input firms. And the book does not delve deeply into internal conflicts that can put activists working within the food movement at odds with one another. I think I would still put Raj Patel's Stuffed and Starved a notch above Food Justice, (but maybe it's time for me to re-read Patel, too).
mo_likesto_read's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
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