Overview
Offers a timely, critical interrogation of global food supply chains
Brings succinct, sharply crafted essays well suited for teaching
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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About this book
This open access book takes the upheaval of the global COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard from which to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system. In a context in which disruptions to the production, distribution, and consumption of food are figured as exceptions to the smooth, just-in-time efficiencies of global supply chains, these essays reveal the global food system as one that is inherently disruptive of human lives and flourishing, and of relationships between people, places, and environments. The pandemic thus represents a particular, acute moment of disruption, offering a lens on a deeper, longer set of systemic processes, and shining new light on transformational possibilities.
Reviews
“Through a set of incisive essays, this incredibly timely book shows how much the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed both vulnerabilities and opportunities - for (racial) capitalism and its discontents alike to intervene in food supply chains. A most welcome publication!” (Julie Guthman Professor of Social Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Victoria Stead is an anthropologist and Australian Research Council DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. Her research sits at the intersection of attention to race and labour relations, land and landscape, and the reverberations of (post)coloniality in Australia and across Australia-Pacific relations.
Melinda Hinkson is an associate professor of anthropology at Deakin University and director of the independent Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne. Her latest research explores creative responses to disruption and visions of agricultural futures in regional Australia. Melinda has published widely on Aboriginal visual production, placemaking, the politics of representation, and the governance of Indigenous difference.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond Global Food Supply Chains
Book Subtitle: Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration
Editors: Victoria Stead, Melinda Hinkson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3155-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3154-3Published: 22 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3157-4Published: 22 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-3155-0Published: 20 July 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 179
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Anthropology, Social Sciences, general