The Need to Feed
Urban Metabolic Struggles of Actually Existing Radical Projects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2370170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Sbicca (0000-0002-8106-4713, Colorado State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 817-834 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0896920513497375 |
| OpenAlex | W2067846813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 39 |
Cities are a locus for struggles over the ability for historically marginalized groups to feed themselves. These stratified spaces represent a distinct expression of the conventional agrifood system: the undernutrition/malnutrition paradox. By investigating the food politics of two organizations - Food Not Bombs in Orlando, FL and People's Grocery in West Oakland, CA - this article advances scholarship on how activists are working to heal and prevent further individual and social metabolic rifts tied to urban food systems. Particularly regarding food access, strategies to resist and transform the conditions producing experiential and cognitive alienation and the commodification of land and labor often emerge from interstitial spaces. Yet, radical food politics is embedded within ongoing processes of neoliberalization that complicate and oftentimes blunt their transformative potential. In short, this article investigates the potential for and challenges faced by 'actually existing radical projects' working to lessen/end hunger and diet-related health problems
Agriculture · Alienation · Biology · Commodification · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Food security · Food systems · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Transformative learning · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
Capitalism and Sustainability
Gardening in Times of Urban Transitions
Challenges to supporting social justice through food system governance
Food labor, economic inequality, and the imperfect politics of process in the alternative food movement
The nature of urban gardens
Improving farmers markets and challenging neoliberalism in Argentina
Biotechnology activism is dead; long live biotechnology activism! The lure and legacy of market-based food movement strategies
Farming while confronting the other
Bridging good food and good jobs
‘Milk actually comes from a cow’
Urban Agriculture Interventions in Refugee and Immigrant Communities
Formation of new property rights on government land through informal co-management
Community blemish or new dawn for the public realm? Governance challenges for self-claimed gardens in urban China
Urban Spaces of Crisis Solidarity
These Bars Can't Hold Us Back
The labor between farm and table
Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler-colonial city
Reparation Ecologies
Ecovillages, Restitution, and the Political-Economic Opportunity Structure
Transforming urban food systems in South Africa
Marx's Ecology
Food Justice
Weighing In
The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact
Towards a transformative food politics
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
No There There
History and Sociology
Scales of environmental justice
The Health Equity Dimensions of Urban Food Systems
Reweaving the food security safety net
From “old school” to “farm-to-school”
Growing food justice by planting an anti-oppression foundation
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale
Working the Spaces of Neoliberal Subjectivity
Cooking up Non-violent Civil-disobedient Direct Action for the Hungry
Narrative Analysis and the New Historical Sociology
Gleaning from Gluttony
Capitalism and Its Discontents
Rebel cities
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Protest Through Presence
Everyday activism and transitions towards post-capitalist worlds
Why farm the city? Theorizing urban agriculture through a lens of metabolic rift
Neoliberalism and the making of food politics in California
From the imperial to the empty calorie
Embodying Neoliberalism
Thinking race through corporeal feminist theory
From Causes to Events
The Demand for Healthy Eating
Food crises, food regimes and food movements
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |