Beyond global food supply chains : Crisis, disruption, regeneration
- Author
- Victoria Stead, Melinda Hinkson
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Medical Science
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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! This 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.
Keywords: Social sciences / Human Geography / Anthropology / Sociology of Food and Nutrition / Food System / Supply chain / COVID / Pandemic / Crisis / Production / Labour / Indigenous Studies / / Postcolonial Studies / Cultural Studies / Food Sovereignty / Alternative Food / Farmworker Collectives
