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Food, Agriculture and Social Change

In recent years, food studies scholarship has tended to focus on a number of increasingly abstract, largely unquestioned concepts with regard to how capital, markets and states organize and operate. This has led to a gulf between public policy and peoples realities with food as experienced in homes and on the streets. Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, this book explores how development and social change in food and agriculture are fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable.

In viewing development in food as a socio-political-material experience, the authors find new objects, intersubjectivities and associations. These reveal a multiplicity of processes, effects and affects largely absent in current academic literature and public policy debates. In their attention to the contingency and creativity found in households, neighborhoods and social networks, as well as at the borders of humannonhuman experience, the book explores how people diversely meet their food needs and passions while confronting the regions most pressing social, health and environmental concerns.

Stephen Sherwood is Lecturer and Researcher in Knowledge, Technology and Innovation at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Alberto Arce is Associate Professor of Sociology of Development and Change at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agronomy at the Universidad de Chile.

Myriam Paredes is Professor of Rural Territorial Development at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Ecuador.

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Food, Agriculture and Social Change forces us to rethink how we have conventionally thought about food and agriculture. Leaky embodiments. Relationality. Ontological multiplicity. Practice. Be prepared for a wild ride. The insights and hopeful critiques youll be exposed to along the way make the journey a rewarding one indeed.

Michael S. Carolan, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA

Challenging dominant patterns of socio-economic development in agriculture and food and proposing a critique of alternative views of production and consumption, the collection of essays included in Food, Agriculture and Social Change contains incisive and empirically-based analyses of the ways in which people define and carry out food production and consumption in Latin America. Stephen Sherwood, Alberto Arce and Myriam Paredes edited a book that, transcending established normative discourses and contesting abstract understandings of what agriculture and food ought to be, demonstrates how agri-food is experienced and practiced in every-day life. The result is a dynamic and engaging edited volume that is a must read for those interested in agriculture and food and socio-economic development in Latin America.

Alessandro Bonanno, Texas State University System Regents Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA

Combining rich empirical material and provocative theoretical reflection, this book offers a fresh perspective on how food which is simultaneously material, meaningful, relational and political is both constituted through and constitutive of a vast array of practices in diverse social locations. By emphasizing the transformative power of peoples agency through everyday practices, this book offers a strong counterpoint to technocratic presumptions common in global development institutions that food and agricultural systems can best be changed through policy initiatives and technological innovations.

Todd Crane, Ecological Anthropologist and Senior Scientist, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Food, Agriculture and Social Change accounts for the everyday, vital assemblages of food, people and processes to help us not just construct a post-disciplinary social theory of food but this magisterial book places this accounting at the veritable centre of the re-production of our collective food futures. This volume provides an invaluable exploration of the processes by which food is more-than-food in its multiplicities, relationalities and intersectionalities and how this fluidity creates a rhizomatic politics that cuts across space, place and territory. Food, Agriculture and Social Change opens up a novel and very much needed window to the everyday politics of food and its socio-ecological vitalitisms in ways that will challenge the field of food studies for years to come.

Michael Goodman, Professor of Environment and Development/Human Geography, University of Reading, UK

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