Stirrings
How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A R Ruis (0000-0003-1382-4677, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 425-426 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaab217 |
| OpenAlex | W3199441767 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In Stirrings Lana Dee Povitz argues that the fight for food justice in New York City led not to corporatization of grassroots efforts but rather to the creation of a service-oriented movement in which nonprofit organizations engaged in responsive, coordinated, and community-based social activism and direct provision of food. Her research centers on four case studies: United Bronx Parents, an antipoverty organization that worked to improve school lunches and establish a free summer meal program; Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, the largest worker-member food cooperative in the United States today; God's Love We Deliver, a meal delivery service for homebound people with Aids (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome); and Community Food Resource Center, which attempted to address shortfalls due to federal cuts in social welfare in the 1980s. When taken together, these case studies provide an in-depth study of food activism in a single city, challenge the narrative that nonprofits co-opted
Business · Corporatization · Criminology · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Grassroots · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Service (business · Social justice · Social movement · Sociology · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Law · Marketing · Organic Food and Agriculture · Public Administration · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Social Work
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |