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Reconnecting so-called alternative food geographies back to the mainstream food system - especially in light of the discursive and material 'transgressions' currently happening between alternative and conventional food networks, this volume critically interrogates and evaluates what stands for 'food politics' in these spaces of transgression now and in the near future and addresses questions such as: What constitutes 'alternative' food politics specifically and food politics more generally when organic and other 'quality' foods have become mainstreamed? What has been the contribution so far of an 'alternative food movement' and its potential to leverage further progressive change and/or make further inroads into conventional systems? What are the empirical and theoretical bases for understanding the established and growing 'transgressions' between conventional and alternative food networks? Offering a better understanding of the evolving position of the corporate food system vis a vis alternative food networks, this book considers the prospects for economic, social, cultural and material transformations led by an increasingly powerful and legitimated alternative food network.--Publisher's website.

1. Food transgressions : ethics, governance and geographies / Michael K. Goodman and Colin Sage -- 2. Pathways of transformation or transgression? Power relations, ethical space and labour rights in Kenyan agri-food value chains / Valerie Nelson. [et al.] -- 3. Of red herrings and immutabilities : rethinking Fairtrade's ethics of relationality among cocoa producers / Amanda Berlan and Catherine Dolan -- 4. Greather than the sum of the parts? Unpacking ethics of care within a community supported agriculture scheme / Rosie Cox. [et al.] -- 5. Polite transgression? Pleasure as economic device and ethical stance in slow food / Federica Davolio and Roberta Sassatelli -- 6. Eating powerful transgressions : (re)assessing the spaces and ethics of organic food in the UK / Michael K. Goodman -- 7. Transgressing retail : supermarkets, liminoid power and the metabolic rift / Jane Dixon, Libby Hattersley and Bronwyn Isaacs -- 8. Making meat collectivities : entanglements of geneticisation, integration and contestation in livestock breeding / Lewis Holloway. [et al.] -- 9. Making and un-making meat : cultural boundaries, environmental thresholds and dietary transgressions / Colin Sage -- 10. Knowing brand wales : agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance / Carla De Laurentis and Philip Cooke -- 11. Food for poorer people : conventional and 'alternative' transgressions? / Martin Caraher and Elizabeth Dowler.

In this article, agrofuels are examined in the context of the world food price crisis and the "food sovereignty" proposal for addressing the crisis. Both short- and long-term causes of the crisis are examined, and while agrofuels are presently not a prime causal factor they are clearly contraindicated by the crisis. Food sovereignty, including a moratorium on agrofuels, is argued to offer the best option for managing the crisis.

"What we eat, where it is from, and how it is produced are vital questions in today's America. We think seriously about food because it is freighted with the hopes, fears, and anxieties of modern life. Yet critiques of food and food systems all too often sprawl into jeremiads against modernity itself, while supporters of the status quo refuse to acknowledge the problems with today's methods of food production and distribution. Food Fights sheds new light on these crucial debates, using a historical lens. Its essays take strong positions, even arguing with one another, as they explore the many themes and tensions that define how we understand our food--from the promises and failures of agricultural technology to the politics of taste"--

Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Digesting Femininities: Gendered Food Discourses and Body-Policing Narratives -- Development of the Project -- Overview -- References -- Chapter 2: Beyond Body-Centrism: Making Food Discourses the Main Course of Feminist Analysis -- Body Policing as Gendered Socialisation -- Eating Disorders: Understanding Body Policing Through a Pathologising Lens -- The Dominance of Fashion and Beauty Critiques in Feminism -- Making Food the Main Course -- Dietetic Food Femininities: Dieting as a Gendered Phenomenon -- Culinary Food Femininities: Cooking as a Gendered Phenomenon -- Feminist Food Femininities: Feminist Consciousness as a Gendered Phenomenon -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: A Smörgåsbord of Food Femininities: How Gender Politics and Food Culture Combine -- Language and Discourse as Gendered -- Patriarchal Discourses and Harmful Gender Norms -- Food Femininities: A Radical Perspective -- Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis as Method -- References -- Chapter 4: Femininities-Lite: Diet Culture, Feminism and Body Policing -- A Feminist Diet? -- "Don't Be a Pussy": Freedman and Barnouin's Post-­Feminist Food Femininity -- Skinny -- Bitch -- Post-Feminist Veganism -- Animalising Women -- Anthropomorphising 'Food' -- "Just F---ing Do It": Bridges' Liberal-Individualist Food Femininity -- Just Do It: Deconstructing the Mantra -- Just Do It Like a Woman -- Just Fucking Do What? -- Confession -- Panopticism (or Self-Surveillance) -- Confessional Panopticism -- Self-Surveillance, Confession and the Female Body -- Self-Surveillance, Confession and Women's Eating Behaviour -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Cooking Up Femininities: Motherhood, Hedonism and Body Policing in Popular Cookbooks -- Using Food as a Mouthpiece

Introduction -- Part I: Pre-Columbian Foods and Cultures -- Chapter 1. Grilling Clams and Roasting Tubers -- Chapter 2. Camelids as Food and Wealth -- Chapter 3. Feast, Food and Drinking on a Paracas platform -- Chapter 4. Cuisine and Social Differentiation in the Late Pre-Hispanic Cajamarca Highlands of Northern Peru -- Chapter 5. Ancient Paria, Bolivia -- Part II: Ethnoarchaeological Approaches to Andean Foodways -- Chapter 6. Identification of Chicha de Maíz through Starch Analysis -- Chapter 7. Ancient Wari Women, Megalith Grinding Stones, and ChichaProduction -- Part III: Food and Culture in Andean Imagery and Iconography -- Chapter 8. Sustainable Resources in Pre-Hispanic Coastal Ecuador -- Chapter 9. The Achumera -- Chapter 10. The Symbolic Value of Food in Moche Iconography -- Part IV: Foodways under Spanish Colonial Rule -- Chapter 11. Imperial Appetites and Altered States -- Chapter 12. Stimulant and Alcoholic Beverages among Hispanic and Indigenous Cultures -- Chapter 13. Guinea Pigs in the Colonial Andes -- Chapter 14. Introduced Species as Food Heritage in Humahuaca Ravine -- Chapter 15. Maize in Andean Food and Culture -- Part V: Contemporary Foodways in the Andean World -- Chapter 16. Commercializing the "Lost Crop of the Inca" -- Chapter 17. Pachamanca: A Celebration of Food and the Earth Conclusion.

Community practices are being rehabilitated and reinvigorated due to a set of extraordinary historical circumstances. This paper focuses on the various types of community practice, community discourse, and communitarian reference points influencing national food system dynamics. It begins by illustrating how corporate-dominated food systems have appropriated community concerns and motifs for profit, and describes several of the many counter-responses to corporate-dominated systems. These alternatives are not necessarily anti-capitalist, and are best conceived in Gibson-Graham's postcapitalist politics framework [(2006) A Post-Capitalist Politics, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis] and its language of diverse economies. While numerous alternative systems embed themselves within the capitalist market, they aim to advance multiple ends beyond profitability. Judgements as to whether diverse food economies offer transformative political possibilities lie in answering some fundamental questions about the accumulation and distribution of surplus value and the capacity for people and firms to be accountable to one another for their actions. In discussing this point, I reflect on the reverberations from past community development theorizing.

Community practices are being rehabilitated and reinvigorated due to a set of extraordinary historical circumstances. This paper focuses on the various types of community practice, community discourse, and communitarian reference points influencing national food system dynamics. It begins by illustrating how corporate-dominated food systems have appropriated community concerns and motifs for profit, and describes several of the many counter-responses to corporate-dominated systems. These alternatives are not necessarily anti-capitalist, and are best conceived in Gibson-Graham's postcapitalist politics framework [(2006) A Post-Capitalist Politics, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis] and its language of diverse economies. While numerous alternative systems embed themselves within the capitalist market, they aim to advance multiple ends beyond profitability. Judgements as to whether diverse food economies offer transformative political possibilities lie in answering some fundamental questions about the accumulation and distribution of surplus value and the capacity for people and firms to be accountable to one another for their actions. In discussing this point, I reflect on the reverberations from past community development theorizing.

In recent years, a number of middle-income countries and influential multilateral institutions have instigated actions that frame food system governance around social protection and rights. These state-centered mobilizations raise fundamental questions about how to portray the global politics of food. Since the late 1980s, analysts have largely concurred that US hegemony in the global politics of food has given way to diverse and volatile neo-liberalist and corporate-led food system governance. However, what should we make of a situation where state and supra-state actors are flexing their powers to reshape food systems in line with rights-based models? Should this be understood as reflexes which aim to preserve national order, at a time of intensified food and nutrition insecurities? Or, does it lay the foundations of a re-governed system which curbs and molds a corporate-led politics of food within frameworks of justice? This contribution responds to these questions by tracing the evolution of social protection and rights-based approaches to the politics of food at the multilateral level and in two influential jurisdictions (India and South Africa). We argue that these initiatives underline a robust and continuing role of state power in global food politics, albeit in a novel fashion compared to previous entanglements.