Growing food justice by planting an anti-oppression foundation: Opportunities and obstacles for a budding social movement

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 455-466

  Sbicca, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental sociology; Food justice; Framing; Ideology; People's Grocery; West Oakland, CA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869098546     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-012-9363-0     Document Type: Article

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