Steve Striffler | University of Massachusetts, Boston (original) (raw)
Uploads
Papers by Steve Striffler
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies , 2024
Food industry concentration, or the control of a relatively small number of corporations over the... more Food industry concentration, or the control of a relatively small number of corporations over the food system, has relatively deep historical origins, even if it has reached unprecedented levels since the 1980s. It is not simply that a handful of firms control a particular industry or crop. It is that all levels of the broader food system, including not only the production, processing, trade, and sale of food products but also of farm machinery, seeds, agrochemicals, and other inputs, are now controlled by relatively few and exceptionally large companies. This high level of concentration has determined the broad contours of our industrial food system, as well as our ability to transform it, while also having profound implications for food workers, farmers, consumers, animals, and the environment. This is true of the United States but is the case globally as wel
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Dialectical Anthropology, 2024
In 1968, during an intense period of anti-colonial struggles in Asia and Africa, Kathleen Gough f... more In 1968, during an intense period of anti-colonial struggles in Asia and Africa, Kathleen Gough famously asserted what is now largely taken for granted within the discipline: anthropology is a child of Western imperialism (1968). Since then, the discipline's engagement with imperialism has, I would argue, flowed in three broad currents-all touched upon in this collection-whose inter-connectedness and intensity have varied over time.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates - by Ludington and Booker, 2019
This chapter provides a short, critical, history of food activism in the United States. It is a ... more This chapter provides a short, critical, history of food activism in the United States. It is a chapter in: Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates. Edited by Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker. UNC Press. 2019.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Common Dreams, 2019
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary INquiry, Mar 2015
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Colombia’s coal mines offer a microcosm of events and ideas sweeping Latin America in the twenty-... more Colombia’s coal mines offer a microcosm of events and ideas sweeping Latin America in the twenty-first century. Foreign multinationals ravage the environment to extract resources consumed in the global north. Indigenous and Afro-descended peasants inhabiting valuable regions claim special status as caretakers of fragile natural environments. Radical unions elaborate an anti-imperialist, environmental critique of the
companies that they see as looting their countries. These forces contribute to a twenty-first century socialism
that links indigenous and environmental rights, attacks the privileges of multinationals and the global north, and commits to redistribution and a vision of development that transcends economic growth.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Sep 2014
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
ILWCH, 2014
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
The Cafo Reader, 2010
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Identities, 1999
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics, 2009
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace, 2009
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
The American South in a Global World, 2005
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies , 2024
Food industry concentration, or the control of a relatively small number of corporations over the... more Food industry concentration, or the control of a relatively small number of corporations over the food system, has relatively deep historical origins, even if it has reached unprecedented levels since the 1980s. It is not simply that a handful of firms control a particular industry or crop. It is that all levels of the broader food system, including not only the production, processing, trade, and sale of food products but also of farm machinery, seeds, agrochemicals, and other inputs, are now controlled by relatively few and exceptionally large companies. This high level of concentration has determined the broad contours of our industrial food system, as well as our ability to transform it, while also having profound implications for food workers, farmers, consumers, animals, and the environment. This is true of the United States but is the case globally as wel
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Dialectical Anthropology, 2024
In 1968, during an intense period of anti-colonial struggles in Asia and Africa, Kathleen Gough f... more In 1968, during an intense period of anti-colonial struggles in Asia and Africa, Kathleen Gough famously asserted what is now largely taken for granted within the discipline: anthropology is a child of Western imperialism (1968). Since then, the discipline's engagement with imperialism has, I would argue, flowed in three broad currents-all touched upon in this collection-whose inter-connectedness and intensity have varied over time.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates - by Ludington and Booker, 2019
This chapter provides a short, critical, history of food activism in the United States. It is a ... more This chapter provides a short, critical, history of food activism in the United States. It is a chapter in: Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates. Edited by Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker. UNC Press. 2019.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Common Dreams, 2019
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary INquiry, Mar 2015
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Colombia’s coal mines offer a microcosm of events and ideas sweeping Latin America in the twenty-... more Colombia’s coal mines offer a microcosm of events and ideas sweeping Latin America in the twenty-first century. Foreign multinationals ravage the environment to extract resources consumed in the global north. Indigenous and Afro-descended peasants inhabiting valuable regions claim special status as caretakers of fragile natural environments. Radical unions elaborate an anti-imperialist, environmental critique of the
companies that they see as looting their countries. These forces contribute to a twenty-first century socialism
that links indigenous and environmental rights, attacks the privileges of multinationals and the global north, and commits to redistribution and a vision of development that transcends economic growth.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Sep 2014
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
ILWCH, 2014
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
The Cafo Reader, 2010
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Identities, 1999
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics, 2009
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace, 2009
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
The American South in a Global World, 2005
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact