{"product_id":"mobilizing-hope-fighting-for-change-food-sovereignty-movements-and-alliance-making-in-the-united-states-9781496243454","title":"Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change: Food Sovereignty Movements and Alliance Making in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change\u003c\/em\u003e analyzes an unusual development in social movement studies and food politics more generally: the formation of an interracial alliance of farmers and farm workers who together demand transformative changes to U.S. agriculture by calling for food sovereignty. Such an alliance, as Anthony R. Pahnke shows, is unusual given how social movement alliances in the United States, particularly those related to agrarian issues, have historically been deeply divided by race and occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePahnke's study offers a novel theory for social movement alliance formation, focusing especially on the dynamics of learning. He documents how since the 1980s there have been unprecedented openings for people to work together due to the rise of transnational activist networks, changes in the international political economy, and evolving forms of state authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForegrounding the voices of activists, \u003cem\u003eMobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change\u003c\/em\u003e compares the trajectories of four U.S.-based movements over time--the Mvskoke Food Sovereignty Initiative based in Oklahoma, the Family Farm Defenders of Wisconsin, the Farmworker Association of Florida, and the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives--documenting how they have united in demanding food sovereignty while remaining distinct from one another. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthony R. Pahnke\u003c\/strong\u003e is an associate professor of international relations at San Francisco State University and serves as the vice president of Family Farm Defenders. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBrazil's Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAgrarian Crisis in the United States: Pathways for Reform\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony R. Pahnke\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of international relations at San Francisco State University and serves as the vice president of Family Farm Defenders. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBrazil's Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAgrarian Crisis in the United States: Pathways for Reform\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51720798830866,"sku":"9781496243454","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f9a6fcf9-5b76-46c5-ac64-cc818180534a.jpg?v=1762936702","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mobilizing-hope-fighting-for-change-food-sovereignty-movements-and-alliance-making-in-the-united-states-9781496243454","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}