Bringing good food to others: investigating the subjects of alternative food practice
- J. Guthman
- Sociology
- 1 October 2008
Under the banner of food justice, the last few years has seen a profusion of projects focused on selling, donating, bringing or growing fresh fruits and vegetables in neighborhoods inhabited by…
Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California
- J. Guthman
- Economics
- 4 August 2004
List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Maps 1. Agrarian Dreams 2. Finding the Way: Roads to Organic Production 3. Organic Farming: Ideal Practices and…
Neoliberalism and the making of food politics in California
- J. Guthman
- Sociology
- 1 May 2008
“If They Only Knew”: Color Blindness and Universalism in California Alternative Food Institutions
- J. Guthman
- Economics
- 4 June 2008
This article takes on the cultural politics of “if they only knew” as it relates to alternative food practice. It draws on surveys and interviews of managers of two kinds of alternative food…
The Trouble with ‘Organic Lite’ in California: a Rejoinder to the ‘Conventionalisation’ Debate
- J. Guthman
- Political Science
- 1 July 2004
Based on a comprehensive study of the California organic sector, this article responds to the conventionalization debate on organic farming that surfaced after the publication of Buck et al. in 1997…
The Polanyian Way? Voluntary Food Labels as Neoliberal Governance
- J. Guthman
- Economics
- 1 June 2007
Abstract: Voluntary food labels that express ecological, social, and/or place-based values have been posed as an important form of resistance to neoliberalization in the Polanyian sense of…
From Farm to Table: The Organic Vegetable Commodity Chain of Northern California
- Daniel Buck, Christy Getz, J. Guthman
- Political Science
- 1 April 1997
L'objet de cette etude etait la structure et les dynamiques des systemes de productions biologiques en Californie. Les AA. ont mene a peu pres soixante-dix interviews semidirectifs avec des…
Fast food/organic food: Reflexive tastes and the making of 'yuppie chow'
- J. Guthman
- Art
- 1 January 2003
Organic food consumption is one of several new trends in eating read as active opposition to industrialized food provision. While fast food consumption is characterized by compulsive gluttony,…
From “old school” to “farm-to-school”: Neoliberalization from the ground up
- P. Allen, J. Guthman
- Economics
- 7 November 2006
Farm-to-school (FTS) programs have garnered the attentions and energies of people in a diverse array of social locations in the food system and are serving as a sort of touchstone for many in the…
Squaring farm security and food security in two types of alternative food institutions
- J. Guthman, A. Morris, P. Allen
- Economics
- 1 December 2006
Abstract Even though both farmers' markets and community supported agriculture were first developed to provide markets for farmers, recently the goals of food security have been attached to these…
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