Food Resistance Movements [electronic resource] : Journeying Through Alternative Food Networks / by Ferne Edwards.

1. Introducing Food Resistance Movements -- 2. Food Waste Activism in Australia -- 3. The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela -- 4. Autonomous Food Spaces in Catalonia -- 5. Reflections on Food System Transitions -- 6. Future Directions for Food Resistance Movements.

This book charts the author's journey as a cultural anthropologist through food resistance movements over two decades, in Catalonia (Spain), Australia and Venezuela. It brings important lessons from the field to current discussions on transitioning to just and sustainable food systems. In Australia, freegans' consumption of 'garbage' reveals the extent of food going to waste from commercial sources while people go hungry. In contrast, Venezuela's food sovereignty movement is part of an attempted national transition from a capitalist to socialist economy, highlighting processes of decentralisation, collectivisation, and government grassroots' coalitions. The study of autonomous spaces in Catalonia illuminates how food sharing can enable people to live their politics, while highlighting governance, consumption, technology and use of space in food resistance efforts. .