Alternative food provision conflicts in cities: Contesting food privilege, injustice, and whiteness in Jamaica Plain, Boston

Geoforum

Volumn 58, Issue , 2015, Pages 184-194

  Anguelovski, Isabelle ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental gentrification; Food justice; Food privilege; Urban environmental justice; Whiteness; Whole Foods

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; FOOD SECURITY; GENTRIFICATION; LATINO PEOPLE; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MARGINALIZATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; RACISM; SERVICE PROVISION; TERRITORIALITY; URBAN POPULATION;

BOSTON; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84916631359     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.10.014     Document Type: Article

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