Intro
Series Editor Foreword
Acknowledgements
Praise for Food Resistance Movements
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introducing Food Resistance Movements
Alternative Food Networks
Trajectory 1: AFNs from Europe
Trajectory 2: AFNs from North America
Trajectory 3: AFNs in the Global South
Trajectory 4: Social Welfare AFNs
Why Cities?
Case Studies in Australia, Venezuela and Catalonia
Ethnographies of Food Resistance Movements
The Book Structure
Conclusion
References

Chapter 2: Food Waste Activism in Australia
The Problem of Overconsumption and Food 'Waste'
My Radical Beginnings in the Bin
The Ethics of Sourcing and Eating 'Garbage'
Associated Freegan Subcultures
Where Do Freegans 'Shop'?
What's on the Freegan Menu?
The Politics of FNB Serving Sites
Is Eating 'Garbage' Safe?
Is It Legal?
Constructing a Freegan Identity
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela
A Brief History of Venezuelan Politics, Dutch Disease and Agriculture
So Enters Chávez
In the Field

Venezuelan Gastronomy and Food Pathways
Indigenous and Traditional Food Pathways
The Commercial Pathway
The Informal Sector
Independent Alternative Food Pathways
The Venezuelan Food Sovereignty Movement
Rural and Urban Land Reform
Urban Productive Programmes
Distribution: Subsidised, Regulated and Free Food for All
Subsidised and Regulated Supermarket Chains
A Blockage in the Food Chain?
Subsidised Eateries
Free Food
Dietary Outcomes
Environmental Outcomes
Chávez's Final Years
Conclusion
References

Chapter 4: Autonomous Food Spaces in Catalonia
A Catalan Culture of Resistance and Protest
Internal Governance Processes of Autonomous Food Spaces
Can Masdeu
L'Aixada
La Xarca D'Aliments
Governing 'Openness' to Sustain Resistance
Sharing Physical and Virtual Space
Membership
Sustaining Autonomous Spaces Through Food Sharing
Beyond Ethical Consumption at L'Aixada
Anti-consumerism at La Xarxa
Degrowth at Can Masdeu
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Reflections on Food System Transitions
Beyond Awareness Raising and Behaviour Change

Institutionalisation: A Pathway for Integrating AFNs into Policy and Planning
Maintenance and Care: Deepening and Sustaining Engagement in AFNs
Failure
Technological Innovation
The Commercialisation of AFNs
A Food Sharing Ecosystem: Diversification, Hybridisation and Replication of AFNs
Diversification and Hybridisation
Replication
Translocal Food Movements
Food Resistance Movements from Global South to North
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Future Directions for Food Resistance Movements
Conclusion
References
Index