Posts Tagged ‘food justice’
US immigration policy, food justice and the fierce urgency of now
In a recent OpEd in the Boston Globe entitled “Trump Spills the Beans on Who Grows Americans’ Food”, we described how the new administration’s immigration policies can create an opportunity…
Read MoreMoving the Field of Food Justice Forward Through the Lens of Urban Political Ecology
Food justice has emerged as a powerful social movement across the USA as well as an increasingly studied academic concept. In many circumstances, the food justice movement operates to reject the neoliberal mechanisms that…
Read MoreForget the seat, we’ll set the table: Youth involvement in Food Policy Councils.
“Youth are prominent in the food justice movement today. This isn’t just because they are ‘included’ as afterthoughts to existing projects and programs. They lead and have their own, independent…
Read MoreWhat did your great-grandmother eat?
“Feminist social scientists use the term positionality to refer to the understanding that our lived experiences, particularly those of race, class, and gender, shape our worldviews. The food movement narrative is largely created…
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