The Need to Feed: Urban Metabolic Struggles of Actually Existing Radical Projects

Critical Sociology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 817-834

  Sbicca, Joshua ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

anti hunger; environmental sociology; food justice; food politics; metabolic rift; neoliberalization; social movements; urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910027315     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920513497375     Document Type: Article

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