“With his deep experiential knowledge (working in farmworker and farm justice movements) and his nuanced understanding of agricultural policy history, agrocorporate political economy, and agrarian crisis in the United States, Brazil, and beyond, Anthony Pahnke contextualizes and clarifies the urgency of food sovereignty and agrarian viability. Accordingly, this book makes a needed and timely contribution to agrifood studies, rural studies, social movement analysis, and political and social sciences at large. And, more importantly, it will be of use to practitioners and agroecology mobilizations around the world.”-Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, provost associate professor in the School of International Service at American University
“Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change stands out for its rigorous and nuanced analysis of four organizations that have different racial compositions and occupations. Anthony Pahnke situates these movements within the longer arc of agrarian struggles in the United States, skillfully weaving together structural factors as well as the micro-social complexities of alliance-building. This well-researched and accessible book is an outstanding contribution to scholarship on food sovereignty, the racial politics of U.S. food movements, and study of social movements.”-Matthew C. Canfield, author of Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance
