Tag: food movements

  • Reflecting on two decades of food resistance movements

    Reflecting on two decades of food resistance movements

    My new book, Food Resistance Movements: Journeying through Alternative Food Networks, draws on key aspects, learnings and queries arising from ethnographies of three international food resistance examples: from the beginning of the food waste movement in Melbourne, Australia, to the emergence of the food sovereignty movement in cities throughout Venezuela, to the mature politicised autonomous…

  • Recounting tales from the bin

    Recounting tales from the bin

    Chapter 2 in my recent book, Food Resistance Movements explores the freegan subculture in Australian cities—people who choose to consume food that would otherwise go to waste to protest overconsumption and hunger in the west. Two freegan case studies are discussed: members of Food Not Bombs, an activist community kitchen and free meal programme; and…