ABSTRACT
This book has traced the contested growth and continuing struggles to develop alternative networks of food provisioning and fair trade in Western Europe and the USA. These struggles have branched out in different directions, in large part to circumvent or “flow around” the corporate challenge of mainstream assimilation that threatens to undermine their alterity and subvert their social agendas. We have explored this challenge in organics, locality products, local foods, and fair trade and the efforts of social movements to defend their political imaginaries and keep alive their hopes of making different worlds of food and every day practice.
