Food and Power in Hawai'i : : Visions of Food Democracy / / ed. by Robert Ji-Song Ku, Christine R. Yano, Krisnawati Suryanata, Aya Hirata Kimura.

In Food and Power in Hawai`i, island scholars and writers from backgrounds in academia, farming, and community organizations discuss new ways of looking at food policy and practices in terms of social justice and sustainability. Each of the nine essays describes Hawai`i's foodscapes and collect...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Food in Asia and the Pacific
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 10 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Tangled Roots: The Paradox of Important Agricultural Lands in Hawai'i
  • 2. Food Security in Hawai'i
  • 3. Kaulana O'ahu me he 'Āina Momona
  • 4. Farmers' Markets in Hawai'i: A Local/Global Nexus
  • 5. Is the Transgene a Grave? On the Place of Transgenic Papaya in Food Democracy in Hawai'i
  • 6. Seeds of Contestation: The Emergence of Hawai'i's Seed Corn Industry
  • 7. Farming on the Margin: Women Organic Farmers in Hawai'i
  • 8. Labor of Meaning, Labor of Need: Organic Farm Volunteering in Hawai'i
  • 9. Epilogue
  • Contributors
  • Index