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Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements

"This collection of new essays offers groundbreaking perspectives on the ways that food and foodways serve as an element of decolonization in Mexican-origin communities. The writers here take us from multigenerational acequia farmers, who trace their ancestry to Indigenous families in place well before the Oñate Entrada of 1598, to tomorrow's transborder travelers who will be negotiating entry into the United States. Throughout, we witness the shifting mosaic of Mexican-origin foods and foodways from Chiapas to Alaska. Global food systems are also considered from a critical agroecological perspective, which takes into account the ways colonialism affects native biocultural diversity, ecosystem resilience, and equality across species and generations. Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements is a major contribution to the understanding of the ways that Mexican-origin peoples have resisted and transformed food systems through daily lived acts of producing and sharing food, knowledge, and seeds in both place-based and displaced communities. It will animate scholarship on global food studies for years to come."--Page [4] of cover.

Terra Viva
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Terra Viva

*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Heroic Journeys “All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva.”—Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace A powerful new memoir published to coincide with Vandana Shiva’s 70th birthday. Vandana Shiva has been described in many ways: the “Gandhi of Grain,” “a rock star” in the battle against GMOs, and “the most powerful voice” for people of the developing world. For over four decades she has vociferously advocated for diversity, indigenous knowledge, localization, and real democracy; she has been at the forefront of seed saving, food sovereignty, and connecting the dots between the destruction ...

Comparative Law and Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1084

Comparative Law and Anthropology

  • Categories: Law

The topical chapters in this cutting-edge collection at the intersection of comparative law and anthropology explore the mutually enriching insights and outlooks of the two fields. Comparative Law and Anthropology adopts a foundational approach to social and cultural issues and their resolution, rather than relying on unified paradigms of research or unified objects of study. Taken together, the contributions extend long-developing trends from legal anthropology to an anthropology of law and from externally imposed to internally generated interpretations of norms and processes of legal significance within particular cultures. The book's expansive conceptualization of comparative law encompasses not only its traditional geographical orientation, but also historical and jurisprudential dimensions. It is also noteworthy in blending the expertise of long-established, acclaimed scholars with new voices from a range of disciplines and backgrounds.

World Traditions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

World Traditions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-10-01
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  • Publisher: Publifye AS

""World Traditions"" takes readers on a captivating journey through the intertwined realms of culinary traditions and family dynamics across cultures and time. This illuminating book explores how cooking practices and family structures have co-evolved, shaping human societies from ancient hearths to modern kitchens. By examining the evolution of cooking traditions, the role of food in family life, and the impact of globalization, the book offers a unique perspective on cultural development and social change. The narrative unfolds chronologically and geographically, starting with early human societies and progressing through major historical periods to the present day. Drawing on archaeologic...

The Neoliberal Diet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

The Neoliberal Diet

This “remarkable, comprehensive” study of neoliberal agribusiness and the obesity epidemic “is critical reading for food studies scholars” (Contemporary Sociology). Obesity rates are rising across the United States and beyond. While some claim that people simply eat too much “energy-dense” food while exercising too little, The Neoliberal Diet argues that the issue is larger than individual lifestyle choices. Since the 1980s, the shift toward neoliberal regulation has enabled agribusiness multinationals to thrive by selling a combination of meat and highly processed foods loaded with refined flour and sugars—a diet that originated in the United States. Drawing on extensive empir...

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.

Seeds, Science, and Struggle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Seeds, Science, and Struggle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Introduction: genes out of place -- Free markets, sound science -- The maize movement and expert advice -- The politics of biosafety monitoring -- Patents on out-of-place genes -- Protecting organic markets -- Conclusion: science and struggles for change.

Genes Out of Place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Genes Out of Place

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Del dicho al hecho: opacidad, autoritarismo y verdades a medias. Primer semestre 2015 (Análisis Plural)
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 135

Del dicho al hecho: opacidad, autoritarismo y verdades a medias. Primer semestre 2015 (Análisis Plural)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-09-04
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  • Publisher: ITESO

Al cierre del primer semestre de 2015 se realizó en México un proceso electoral histórico debido a que, por primera vez, participaron candidatos independientes, pero sobre todo porque varios de ellos resultaron electos. A la par, ganaron fuerza partidos de reciente formación, como Movimiento Ciudadano y Morena, arrebatando posiciones importantes a los partidos hegemónicos, en lo que se interpreta como un mensaje de hartazgo ciudadano hacia la democracia autoritaria que rige en el país y los vicios que esta conlleva: corrupción, impunidad, violencia social, excesos de las fuerzas de seguridad, desaparición de personas y opacidad. El periodo también estuvo marcado por los ataques a la...

La Investigaci�n para el Empoderamiento Social: Pilar del Proceso de Ense�anza-Aprendizaje
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 282

La Investigaci�n para el Empoderamiento Social: Pilar del Proceso de Ense�anza-Aprendizaje

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-03-04
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

En la actualidad las estrategias para la absorción de capital humano de investigación son pocas, por lo que se hace necesario diseñar y proponer sistemas de empoderamiento innovador, siendo el reto generar una masa crítica altamente calificada mediante la incorporación de investigadores al mercado del conocimiento por medio de agentes que puedan integrarlos a la innovación tecnológica sistematizada dentro del desarrollo social, empresarial y tecnológico del país.