Breaking the Food Chains: An Investigation of Food Justice Activism*

摘要: This article develops the concept of food justice, which places access to healthy, affordable, culturally appropriate in contexts institutional racism, racial formation, and racialized geographies. Through comparative ethnographic case studies, we analyze demands for justice articulated by Karuk Tribe California West Oakland Food Collaborative. Activists these communities use an environmental frame address healthy food, advocating a local system Oakland, demolition Klamath River dams that prevent subsistence fishing. serves as theoretical political bridge between scholarship activism on sustainable agriculture, insecurity, justice. brings emphasis racially stratified benefits bear agriculture movement's attention processes production consumption. Furthermore, argue can help movement move beyond several limitations their frequent place-based approach more meaningfully incorporate issues equity social Additionally, may activists policymakers working security understand institu- tionalized nature denied food.