| Description |
xiv, 170 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Cindy Barukh Milstein -- Introduction / Wren Awry -- On feeding others as an act of resistance / an interview with Cheshire Li -- Cooking revolutions in the popular pot / Virginia Tognola -- The contentious biryani : Rice, nation, and dissent / Paridhi Gupta -- La Morada : When a restaurant is a sanctuary / Alyshia Gálvez -- The way it could be : Toward food sovereignty and against state dependence / Luz Cruz -- The Anishinabeg's call to protect the moose / Laurence Desmarais -- On farming as a practice of abundance and liberation / an interview with mayam -- "Remaking the commons" : A history of eating in public / Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma -- From "building the bases for a different life : an interview with Hong Kong Anarchists Black Window" / Lausan Collective and Black Window -- The wine bottle's intrinsic blight / Lisa Strid -- Plastic / Katie Tastrom -- On fat activism and the power of being an outsider / an interview with Virgie Tovar -- Everywhere that feeling lived : Making a queer food podcast / Nico Wisler -- Queer potlucks offer food for capitalist critique and collective action / Lindsey Danis -- The hearth of revolution / Shayontoni Rhea Ghosh -- Rehearsing for rebellion : On "Bella Ciao" and Italy's radical rice weeders / Alessandra Bergamin -- On the food of the West Virginia mine wars / an interview with Mike Costello -- Notes on utopian failure in the commune kitchens / Madeline Lane-McKinley -- Abundance and other lessons on the Lower East Side / Wren Awry -- Uthando Luvunwa Apha : A postcapitalist love story / te'sheron courtney -- Are you a kindergarden abolitionist? A list of what's possible in the next economy / sumi dutta -- Seeds planted by Nana Tota / Nelda Ruiz. |
| Summary |
"Through essays, articles, poems, and stories, Nourishing Resistance argues that food is a central, intrinsic part of global struggles for autonomy and collective liberation."-- Provided by publisher |
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"From the cooks who have quietly fed rebels and revolutionaries to the collective kitchens set up after hurricanes and floods, food has long played a crucial role in resistance, protest, and mutual aid. Until very recently, food-based work--steadfast and not particularly flashy--slipped under the radar or was centered on celebrity chefs and well-funded nonprofits. Adding to a growing constellation of conversations that push against this narrative, Nourishing Resistance centers the role of everyday people in acts of culinary solidarity. Twenty-three contributors--cooks, farmers, writers, organizers, academics, and dreamers--write on queer potlucks, BIPOC-centered farms and gardens, rebel ancestors, disability justice, indigenous food sovereignty, and the fight against toxic diet culture, among many other topics. They recount bowls of biryani at a Delhi protest, fricasé de conejo on a Puerto Rican farm, pay-as-you-want dishes in a collectively-run Hong Kong restaurant, and lemon cake cooked in a New Jersey disaster relief kitchen. They chronicle the communal kitchens and food distribution programs that emerged in Buenos Aires and New York City in the wake of COVID-19, which caused surging food insecurity worldwide. They look to the past, revealing how "Bella Ciao" was composed by striking women rice workers, and the future, speculating on postcapitalist worlds that include both high-tech collective farms and herbs gathered beside highways." -- Back cover. |
| Subject |
Food -- Social aspects.
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Food -- Political aspects.
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Food -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00930613
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Awry, Wren, editor.
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Milstein, Cindy, writer of foreword.
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PM Press (Firm), publisher.
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9781629639963 |
| ISBN |
9781629639925 (paperback) |
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1629639923 (paperback) |
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9781629639963 ePub ebook |
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