The New Food Activism Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action

Introduction / Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman -- Taking a different tack: pesticide regulatory reform activism in California / Jill Lindsey Harrison -- How canadian farmers fought and won the battle against GM wheat / Emily Eaton -- How midas lost its golden touch: neoliberalism and activist strategy in the demise of methyl iodide in California / Julie Guthman and Sandy Brown -- Resetting the good food table: labor and food justice alliances in Los Angeles / Joshua Sbicca -- Food workers and consumers organizing together for food justice / Joann Lo and Biko Koenig -- Farmworker-led food movements then and now: the united farmworkers, the coalition of Immokalee workers, and the potential for farm labor justice / Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern -- Collective purchase: food cooperatives and their pursuit of justice / Andrew Zitcer -- Collectivizing markets to strengthen communities: cooperative social practices, self-determination, and the struggle for food justice in Oakland and Chicago / Meliza Figuoera and Alison Hope Alkon -- Urban agriculture, food justice, and neoliberal urbanization: rebuilding the institution of property /Michelle Glowa -- Boston's emerging food solidarity economy / Penn Loh and Julian Agyeman -- Grounding the US food movement: bringing land into food justice / Tanya M. Kerssen and Zoe W. Brent -- Conclusion: a new food politics / Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman.