Food, Health, and the Environment
The Food, Health, and the Environment series presents the theories, evidence, and strategies that enable scholars, practitioners, and activists to identify and advance just and resilient food, health, and environmental systems. Titles in the series offer critical analyses of food production, distribution, and consumption, from the global to the local, unmasking the political, economic, cultural, and technological dimensions of existing food systems and illustrating pathways for transformation. Authors approach their subjects from diverse disciplines, theoretical frameworks, and methods, challenging existing approaches and thinking about food, and offering readers unique perspectives on current controversies. These may range from how the charitable food system stigmatizes the food insecure to the ways immigrant Latinx farmworkers can transition to farm owners and their efforts to use traditional—and sustainable—growing practices.
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Seed Activism
Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South
ISBN: 9780262544641
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
How lawsuits around intellectual property in Brazil and India are impacting the patentability of plants and seeds, farmers' rights, and the public interest.
Acquired Tastes
Stories about the Origins of Modern Food
ISBN: 9780262542913
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 17, 2021
How modern food helped make modern society between 1870 and 1930: stories of power and food, from bananas and beer to bread and fake meat.
The Immigrant-Food Nexus
Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America
ISBN: 9780262538411
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 24, 2020
The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foodways.
The New American Farmer
Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability
ISBN: 9780262537834
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 12, 2019
An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming.
Global Meat
Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry
ISBN: 9780262537735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2019
The growth of the global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers' rights, the treatment of animals, and other issues.
Feeding the Other
Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries
ISBN: 9780262536769
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2019
How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity.
Big Hunger
The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
ISBN: 9780262535168
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 13, 2018
How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.
GMOs Decoded
A Skeptic's View of Genetically Modified Foods
ISBN: 9780262039192
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2019
The debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions.
Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
From Loncheras to Lobsta Love
ISBN: 9780262534079
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.
Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
ISBN: 9780262516280
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 29, 2011
An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists.
Seed Activism
Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South
ISBN: 9780262544641
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
How lawsuits around intellectual property in Brazil and India are impacting the patentability of plants and seeds, farmers' rights, and the public interest.
Acquired Tastes
Stories about the Origins of Modern Food
ISBN: 9780262542913
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 17, 2021
How modern food helped make modern society between 1870 and 1930: stories of power and food, from bananas and beer to bread and fake meat.
The Immigrant-Food Nexus
Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America
ISBN: 9780262538411
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 24, 2020
The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foodways.
The New American Farmer
Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability
ISBN: 9780262537834
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 12, 2019
An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming.
Global Meat
Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry
ISBN: 9780262537735
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2019
The growth of the global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers' rights, the treatment of animals, and other issues.
Feeding the Other
Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries
ISBN: 9780262536769
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2019
How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity.
Big Hunger
The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
ISBN: 9780262535168
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 13, 2018
How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.
GMOs Decoded
A Skeptic's View of Genetically Modified Foods
ISBN: 9780262039192
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2019
The debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions.
Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
From Loncheras to Lobsta Love
ISBN: 9780262534079
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.
Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
ISBN: 9780262516280
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 29, 2011
An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists.