Food Justice and Policy Books

Books used to develop STOCKSCH 356:

Chakraborth, A. 2019. Justice for Our Food: A Handbook on Food Justice.

Chomsky, N. & M. Waterstone. 2021. Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance.  Haymarket Books.

Civita, N. & M Auerbach. 2023. Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems through Relationship. John Hunt Publishing

Corey, D. J. & D. Spark. 2022. Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger and Family. Beacon Press.

de Oliveira, V.M. 2021.  Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. North Atlantic Books.

Fisher, M. 2014. Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? Zero Books.

Frederick, A. 2024. Barons: Money, Power, and Corruption of America’s Food Industry. Island Press

Freeman, A. 2024. Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch. Metropolitan Books.

Freire, P. 1970. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Continuum Publishing Co.

Gavin, F. J. 2024. The Taming of Scarcity and the Problems of Plenty. Routledge.

Hanh, Thich Nhat. 2014. How to Eat.  Parallax Press.

Harris, T. & T. Gibbs. 2024. Food in a Just World. Polity Press.

Holt-Gimenez, E. 2017. A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What we Eat. Monthly Review Press.

Holt-Gimenez, E. 2018. Can We Feed the World without Destroying it? Polity Press.

hooks, b 2018.. All About Love: New Visions. William Morrow.

Howard, P.H. 2021. Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat? Bloomsbury Academic.

Menakem, R. 2017. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.  Central Recovery Press.

Odel, J. 2019. How to do nothing: resisting the attention economy.  Melville House.

Sbicca, J. 2018. Food Justice Now: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle. University of Minnesota Press.

Sheldrick, M. 2024. From Ideas to Impact: a playbook for influencing and implementing change in a divided world.  Wiley Press.

Stanton, C. 2024. Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer. University of Massachusetts Press.

Weber, K. 2023. Food, Inc. 2: Inside the Quest for a Better Future for Food.  Hachette Book Group.

Wilde, P. 2018. Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction. Routledge.

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