Elsewhere

Name: Elsewhere
Brand: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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How the US Food System Cultivates, Conceals, and Consumes Its Violence

By: Stian Rice

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Paperback | 20 October 2026

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280 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 2.18

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Geographer Stian Rice demonstrates how the current solutions to fix our broken food system miss the point. He argues that our food system isn't broken--in fact, it's working just fine as a capitalist system that generates wealth--and that the harms it inflicts are intentional. Elsewhere examines the 250-year history of the US food system, uncovering how the country used abundance to enrich some and exploit others and how it captured, colonized, and reorganized territory to conceal its harms. To keep generating wealth, the system moves its violence around, away from privileged producers and consumers and into forgettable elsewhere: reservations, prisons, distant islands, killing floors, inner cities, rural hinterlands, and war-torn countries. Rice shows how decades of technological innovation, environmental awareness, and consumer consciousness have not, and will not, staunch these self-inflicted wounds until we can nurture a food system that does not profit from harm.

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"Stian Rice offers a richly detailed examination of the American food system's propensity to violence in accumulating massive surpluses, profits, and power. Elsewhere tells the stories of those people and places that have borne the brunt of appropriation and oppression in resolving capitalist agriculture's contradictions and provided the land and labor that kept the US food system growing." --Jamey Essex, author of Development, Security, and Aid: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development

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