Beyond Voting With Our Wallets: The Politics and the Promise of the Food Movement
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2013
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Haverford College. Department of Political Science
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Food is increasingly recognized as "political," but the same recognition is not granted to the food movement. In my thesis, I outline the many environmental, public health, community and social justice crises that the emerging food movement responds to. I describe what I call the market choice model, a particular trend in the food movement that emphasizes consumer power, and make an argument about the limitations of this model. Finally, I offer three case studies of alternative ways to channel the social power building around food issues – examples that certainly have their own limitations, but that each encourage us to think about transforming the food system in new ways. The ways in which we engage with the food system – how we define problems, what solutions we look to, who we include, how we measure success – are political matters and intensely important.