Foodscapes and the geographies of poverty : sustenance, strategy, and politics in an urban neighborhood

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Description :
Through the concept of “foodscape”, this article examines the daily practices of accessing food among low-income residents of the Downtown Eastside neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. It highlights how food access for the urban poor involves a complex and contradictory negotiation of both sites of encounter and care and also exclusion and regulation. Therefore, it discusses efforts to question the existing food system in Vancouver, to resist the gentrification processes that threaten this neighbourhood’s food resources, and to build alternative strategies for urban food justice.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Antipode, issn : 0066-4812, 2014, vol. 46, n°. 2, p. 537-556, nombre de pages : 20, Références bibliographiques : 3 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, Oxford, Blackwell