This article examines how activists involved in the food movement use different tactics intended to challenge and subvert the agrifood structures they encounter. We use data from interviews and participant observations with 57 food movement activists operating in less robust alternative food systems throughout the Southern Plains states of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Our respondents describe how they interpret their regional food systems as deliberately restrictive to the food movement and explain some of the tactical choices they make to maneuver around various constraints they claim hinder their food movement activism. In actively resisting the agricultural status quo, we find that some activists knowingly engage in forms of high-risk activism. We then examine the different framing devices food movement activists use to explain the risks generated by their tactical workarounds. Our findings contribute to the social movements and food system literature by showing how activists interpret and justify the risks generated by their resistance and by emphasizing the contextual nature of tactical choices and risk in social movement activism.

本文探讨了参与食品运动的维权人士如何使用不同的策略来挑战和颠覆他们所遇到的农业食品结构。我们使用来自得克萨斯州，阿肯色州，俄克拉荷马州和堪萨斯州南部平原各州的57个食物运动积极分子的访谈和参与者观察数据，这些食物运动维权人士的活动不够健全。我们的受访者描述了他们如何将其区域粮食系统解释为故意限制了食物运动，并解释了他们为应对各种声称阻碍其食物运动积极性的限制而做出的战术选择。在积极抵制农业现状时，我们发现一些激进主义者故意参与了高风险的激进主义活动。然后，我们研究了食品运动活动家用来解释其战术解决方法所产生的风险的不同取景设备。我们的发现为社会运动和粮食系统文献做出了贡献，它显示了积极分子如何解释和证明他们抵抗所产生的风险，并强调了战略选择的背景性质和社会运动积极主义中的风险。