Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change : Food Sovereignty Movements and Alliance Making in the United States

University of Nebraska Press

Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for ChangeFood Sovereignty Movements and Alliance Making in the United States\nAuthor(s): Anthony R. Pahnke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496243454, 978-1496243454\nSynopsis\nMobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change analyzes an unusual development in social movement studies and food politics more generally: the formation of an interracial alliance of farmers and farm workers who together demand transformative changes to [url] agriculture by calling for food sovereignty. Such an alliance, as Anthony R. Pahnke shows, is unusual given how social movement alliances in the United States, particularly those related to agrarian issues, have historically been deeply divided by race and occupation.\n\n Pahnkes study offers a novel theory for social movement alliance formation, focusing especially on the dynamics of learning. He documents how since the 1980s there have been un.