This open access book offers an elaboration on foodways as both a geographical concept and an area of study that recognizes local food systems as essential to social justice and long-term sustainability. Approaching food through the lens of foodways provides an alternative to classical scholarship on food security, which often focuses on poverty in order to propose new globalized solutions. Instead, this perspective directs research toward the preservation of cultural and biological diversity, the protection of land rights, and the promotion of social justice.With a specific focus on the MENA region, contributors to this edited collection engage with reflexive and collaborative methodologies, including participatory visual methods, storytelling, radical learning, land-based and socially rooted knowledges, embodied practices, visceral methods, and community mapping. Such approaches can help negotiate outsider–insider tensions while co-producing knowledge that is accountable to communities and relevant to wider societal debates.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Paola Minoia
EAN: 9783032281258
COUNTRY: Switzerland
PAGES: 159
WEIGHT:
HEIGHT: 210 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-08-05
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GENRE: SCIENCE / Environmental Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Food Science / Food Safety & Security
WIDTH: 148 mm
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Book Themes:
Middle East, North Africa, Sociology, Social geography, Food security and supply