Books
Grow, Cook, Share: Eating to End Climate Change lays out a basic case for supporting regenerative agriculture as a way to mitigate climate change. The basic premise is to grow involvement in local agriculture, cook and preserve more food, and share the work, joys, and fruits of food systems.
The Vegan Industrial Complex Contracted with the University of Washington Press and forthcoming in 2025, this book examines the problems with plant-based meat alternatives and advocates for a new approach to solving the problem of protein consumption.
We Want Land to Live! explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty. First coined by La Via Campesina (a global movement whose name means "the peasant's way"), food sovereignty is a concept that expresses the universal right to food. Amy Trauger uses research combining ethnography, participant observation, field notes, and interviews to help us understand the material and definitional struggles surrounding the decommodification of food and the transformation of the global food system's political-economic foundations. Published 2017 by UGA Press.
Geographies of Food and Power Published by Routledge in August of 2022, this book is an undergraduate textbook on the topic of food, politics, and capitalism.
Engendering Development Engendering Development demonstrates how gender is a form of inequality that is used to generate global capitalist development. It charts the histories of gender, race, class, sexuality and nationality as categories of inequality under imperialism, which continue to support the accumulation of capital in the global economy today. The book draws on feminist and critical development scholarship to provide insightful ways of understanding and critiquing capitalist economic trajectories by focusing on the way development is enacted and protested by men and women. Published in 2019 by Routledge, with co-author Jen Fluri.
Public Policies for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements and the State Edited with Annette Desmarais and Priscilla Claeys, this book is a collection of papers on the topic of state involvement in shaping the outcomes of food sovereignty social movements. Published in 2017 by Routledge
Food Sovereignty in International Context: Discourse, politics and practice of place Collecting the proceedings for the 2013 European Society for Rural Sociology conference in Florence, Italy, these papers tackle the ways in which food sovereignty varies across space and place. Published in 2015 by Routledge