Breaking the Food Chains: An Investigation of Food Justice Activism* (original) (raw)

This article develops the concept of food justice, emphasizing the need for access to healthy, affordable, and culturally appropriate food against the backdrop of institutional racism and racialized geographies. Through ethnographic case studies of the Karuk Tribe of California and the West Oakland Food Collaborative, it reveals how activists advocate for food justice as a convergence of environmental and social justice movements, aiming to challenge the systemic barriers contributing to food insecurity and diet-related health disparities within these communities.