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  • The Real Cost of Cheap Food

    by Michael Carolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.The author shows why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what it promises. The food produced under this regime is in fact exceedingly expensive. Many of these costs will ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology: Volume 2

    Edited by Katharine Legun, Michael Carolan, Julie C. Keller, Michael M. Bell ...
    The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology is a go-to resource for cutting-edge research in the field. This two-volume work covers the rich theoretic foundations of the sub-discipline, as well as novel approaches and emerging areas of research that add vitality and momentum to the discipline. Over the course of sixty chapters, the authors featured in this work reach new levels of ... Read more

    $198.49 USD

  • A Decent Meal

    Building Empathy in a Divided America

    by Michael Carolan ...
    A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food.While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Sociology of Food and Agriculture

    by Michael Carolan ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society.The book begins by examining the food economy, with chapters focusing on foodscapes, the financialization of food, and a new chapter dedicated to food and nutrition (in)security. In Part II, the book addresses community and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Regenerative Food Systems

    Edited by Jessica Duncan, Michael Carolan, Johannes S.C. Wiskerke ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This handbook includes contributions from established and emerging scholars from around the world and draws on multiple approaches and subjects to explore the socio-economic, cultural, ecological, institutional, legal, and policy aspects of regenerative food practices.The future of food is uncertain. We are facing an overwhelming number of interconnected and complex challenges related to the ways ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Cheaponomics

    The High Cost of Low Prices

    by Michael Carolan ...
    Do you really think you are getting a good deal when given that free mobile phone for switching service providers, if a multinational retailer undercuts its competitors or by the fact that food is relatively cheaper today in many countries than ever before?Think again! As Michael Carolan clearly shows in this compelling book, cheapness is an illusion. The real cost of low prices is alarmingly high ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Food Utopias

    Reimagining citizenship, ethics and community

    Edited by Paul V. Stock, Michael Carolan, Christopher Rosin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements – including the different articulations of local, food miles, seasonality, food justice, food knowledge and food sovereignty – consistently invoke themes around autonomy, sufficiency, cooperation, mutual aid, freedom, and responsibility.In this stimulating and provocative book the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology: Volume 1

    Edited by Katharine Legun, Michael Carolan, Julie C. Keller, Michael M. Bell ...
    The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology is a go-to resource for cutting-edge research in the field. This two-volume work covers the rich theoretic foundations of the sub-discipline, as well as novel approaches and emerging areas of research that add vitality and momentum to the discipline. Over the course of sixty chapters, the authors featured in this work reach new levels of ... Read more

    $198.49 USD

  • Biological Economies

    Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers

    Edited by Richard Le Heron, Hugh Campbell, Nick Lewis, Michael Carolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be summarized as: ‘more than human’ approaches to economic life; a ‘post-structural political economy’ of food and agriculture; and calls for ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    A Decent Meal

    Building Empathy in a Divided America

    by Michael Carolan ...
    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our dinner tables, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Degrowth

    A Vocabulary for a New Era

    Edited by Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis ...
    Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Understanding Sustainable Development

    by John Blewitt ...
    A truly comprehensive introduction to the topic, Understanding Sustainable Development is designed to give students on a wide range of courses an appreciation of the key concepts and theories of sustainable development.Fully updated, the third edition includes detailed coverage of the Sustainable Development Goals and their impact on global development. Major challenges and topics are explored ... Read more

    $59.99 USD