Food trucks, cultural identity, and social justice : from loncheras to lobsta love / edited by Julian Agyeman, Caitlin Matthews, and Hannah Sobel.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
vi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Food, health, and the environment
The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style tonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving lobster rolls. Customers range from gastro-tourists to construction workers, all eager for food that is delicious, authentic, and relatively inexpensive. Although some cities that host food trucks encourage their proliferation, other throw up regulatory roadblocks. This book examines the food truck phenomenon in North American cities from Los Angeles to Montreal, taking a novel perspective: social justice. It considers the motivating factors behind a city's promotion or restriction of mobile food vending, and how these motivations might connect to or impede broad goals of social justice. The contributors investigate the discriminatory implementation of rules, with gentrified hipsters often receiving preferential treatment over traditional immigrants: food trucks as part of community economic development; and food trucks' role in cultural identity formation. They describe, among other things, mobile food vending in Portland, Oregon, where relaxed permitting encourages street food; the criminalization of food trucks by Los Angeles and New York City health codes; food as cultural currency in Montreal; social and spatial bifurcation of food trucks in Chicago and Durham, North Carolina; and food trucks as a part of Vancouver. Canada's self-branding as the "Greenest City." Book jacket.
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Food trucks United States.
Food trucks Canada.
Street vendors Law and legislation United States.
Street vendors Law and legislation Canada.
Social justice United States.
Social justice Canada.
Camions de cuisine de rue États-Unis.
Camions de cuisine de rue Canada.
Justice sociale États-Unis.
Justice sociale Canada.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Food trucks.
Social justice.
Canada.
United States.
Agyeman, Julian, editor.
Matthews, Caitlin, 1952- editor.
Sobel, Hannah, editor.
Food, health, and the environment.
Localisation: Bibliothèque main 296928
Cote: BIB 243249
Statut: Disponible
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