Eating NAFTA

“In this poignant ethnographic achievement, Gálvez vividly renders the complicated relationship between trade policy, migration, and sustenance. Taking into account the growing public attention paid to free trade and neoliberal policies, Eating NAFTA delves deeply into the profound and disturbing effects trade agreements have on the local and everyday lives of those most heavily impacted. Methodologically ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and supremely engaging, this book is poised for instant success.”—Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

“Eating NAFTA is a long-overdue examination of the impact of free-trade policies on food production, traditional culture, and the vulnerable bodies of Mexicans on both sides of the border. Alyshia Gálvez’s interdisciplinary approach— which combines political economy, health sciences, anthropology, cultural studies, and geography— is impressive, and her arguments are well researched and expertly sustained. The unique attraction of this book, however, is how it capitalizes on current ‘foodie’ trends in popular culture to make a wide-ranging and effective case against consumption hierarchies, wealth inequality, and neoliberal policies that deflect attention away from the inherent injustices of market-based approaches, which wind up claiming human victims.”—Ed Morales, author of Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture