Geographies of justice and social transformation

Alison Hope Alkon

Through an ethnographic study of farmers markets in North Berkeley and West Oakland, this book examines how local, organic food becomes connected to ideas about environmental protection, community building, and economic change. It explores how race and class shape the experiences and meanings attached to the green economy, from the perspectives of market managers and vendors to those of consumers. Bringing food politics into conversation with environmental justice, the book considers both the promise and the limitations of consumer-driven approaches to social transformation. Its nuanced analysis challenges assumptions about who benefits from sustainable food systems and whose visions of change remain marginalized.