Visible Hands That Feed

Ruzana Liburkina is a cultural anthropologist and a research associate in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPart 1. Introduction1. Navigating Food Supply Chains to Find Seeds of Sustainable Futures2. Opposing Agendas and Fragmented Realities in the Food SectorPart 2. Responsibility3. The Sway of Demand in the Afterlife of Consumption4. The Inconsistencies of Audit Culture in the Food Sector5. Perseverant Partial Responsibilities for OthersPart 3. Growth6. Strategic Scalability of Social Connectedness7. Embracing and Rejecting the Vision of Growth in Practice8. How Compromises Compromise Totalizing VisionsPart 4. Conclusions9. Implications for Rethinking and Reshaping Food SystemsNotesReferencesIndex

"Ruzana Liburkina offers essential insights into the characteristics that inform day-to-day operations within the food sector. This work is a valuable contribution to the discipline of ethnography and the literature on sustainable development in the food sector."-Cianna Devitt, H-Environment “An important, nuanced, and innovative take on the subject of agriculture and food. I appreciate the contrast between the small farmers in Germany who think that they are setting a moral example for the world on how to farm and the Uruguayan rice farmers who pity the European farmers who are so dependent on subsidies that they are a drain on their societies. This brilliantly captures how farmers think about their lives in contrast to other farmers.”-Leland Glenna, professor of rural sociology and science, technology, and society at Pennsylvania State University “Ruzana Liburkina provides very nice ethnographic accounts of the lived experiences of those inhabiting different locations along the food value chain. The stories told are compelling, from an empirical point of view, and moving. This book makes a clearly novel contribution.”-Michael Carolan, author of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture