A Place-Based Perspective of Food in Society

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Origins and Propagation of Agriculture: The Formation of the Contemporary Diet

Chapter 3 Agricultural Industrialization and the Presence of the “Local” in the Global Food World

Chapter 4 Lessons from the Past: A Historical Overview of the Place-Food Relationship

Chapter 5 Ways of Knowing the World: The Role of Knowledge and Food Movements in the Food-Place Nexus

Chapter 6 Modern Southern Food: An Examination of the Intersection of Place, Race, Class, and Gender in the Quest for Authenticity

Chapter 8 The Political Economy of Food and Agriculture in the United States and Russia

Chapter 9 Power and Place in Food Systems: From Global to Local

Chapter 10 The Death of Distance: Food Deserts Across the Global Divide

Chapter 11 Place-Based Responses to the Global Food Economy

Chapter 12 Troubling Place in Alternative Food Practices: Food Movements, Neoliberalism, and Place

Chapter 13 Toward Economies That Won’t Leave: Utilizing a Community Food Systems Model to Develop Multisector Sustainable Economies in Rural Southeastern North Carolina