Stirrings : how activist New Yorkers ignited a movement for food justice /

Stirrings : how activist New Yorkers ignited a movement for food justice /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Povitz, Lana Dee, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Justice, power, and politics Justice, power, and politics.
Subject:	United Bronx Parents (Organization) Park Slope Food Coop. God's Love We Deliver (Organization) Community Food Resource Center (New York, N.Y.) God's Love We Deliver (Organization) Food security -- New York (State) -- New York. Food supply -- New York (State) -- New York. Community-based social services -- New York (State) -- New York. Food cooperatives -- New York (State) -- New York. Consumer movements -- New York (State) -- New York. Social movements -- New York (State) -- New York. Community-based social services. Consumer movements. Food cooperatives. Food security. Food supply. Social movements. New York (State) -- New York.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12485987

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ISBN:	9781469653037 1469653036 9781469653006 1469653001 9781469653013 146965301X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (JSTOR, viewed December 21, 2020).
Summary:	"In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression. In response, New Yorkers set the stage for a nationwide food justice movement. Whether organizing school lunch campaigns, establishing food co-ops, or lobbying city officials, citizen-activists made food a political issue, uniting communities across lines of difference. The charismatic, usually female leaders of these efforts were often products of earlier movements: American communism, civil rights activism, feminism, even Eastern mysticism. Situating food justice within these rich lineages, Lana Dee Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net. Using dozens of new oral histories and archives, Povitz reveals the colorful characters who worked behind the scenes to build and sustain the movement, and illuminates how people worked together to overturn hierarchies rooted in class and race, reorienting the history of food activism as a community-based response to austerity. The first book-length history of food activism in a major American city, Stirrings highlights the emotional, intimate, and interpersonal aspects of social movement culture"--Publisher's description.
Other form:	Print version: Povitz, Lana Dee. Stirrings. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] 9781469653006

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Summary:	In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression. In response, New Yorkers set the stage for a nationwide food justice movement. Whether organizing school lunch campaigns, establishing food co-ops, or lobbying city officials, citizen-activists made food a political issue, uniting communities across lines of difference. The charismatic, usually female leaders of these efforts were often products of earlier movements: American communism, civil rights activism, feminism, even Eastern mysticism. Situating food justice within these rich lineages, Lana Dee Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net.<br> <br> <br> <br> Using dozens of new oral histories and archives, Povitz reveals the colorful characters who worked behind the scenes to build and sustain the movement, and illuminates how people worked together to overturn hierarchies rooted in class and race, reorienting the history of food activism as a community-based response to austerity. The first book-length history of food activism in a major American city, Stirrings highlights the emotional, intimate, and interpersonal aspects of social movement culture.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781469653037 1469653036 9781469653006 1469653001 9781469653013 146965301X