Social Science Human Geography
Radical Food Geographies
Power, Knowledge and Resistance
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2024
- Category
- Human Geography, Agriculture & Food), Agriculture & Food
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781529233414
- Publish Date
- Sep 2024
- List Price
- $130.00 USD
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Description
This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales. With case studies from around the globe, Radical Food Geographies explores interconnections between power structures and the social and ecological dynamics that bring food from the land and water to our plates. Through themes of scale, spatial imaginaries, and human and more-than-human relationships, the authors explore ongoing efforts to co-construct more equitable and sustainable food systems for all.
Advancing a radical food geographies praxis, the book reveals multiple forms of resistance and resurgence, and offers examples of co-creating food systems transformation through scholarship, action, and geography.
About the authors
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Sarah de Leeuw holds a Ph.D. in historical-cultural geography and is currently an Associate Professor with the Northern Medical Program at UNBC, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, where she works in medical humanities and the determinants of marginalized peoples' health.
De Leeuw grew up on Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii (The Queen CharLotte Islands), the lived in Terrace, BC. She earned a BFA from the University of Victoria, after which she spent time teaching English in South Korea. She also worked as a tug boat driver, women's centre coordinator, logging camp cook, and a journalist and correspondent for Connections Magazine and CBC Radio's BC Almanac. She returned to Northern BC after spending four years in Ontario and another year in Arizona as a visiting Fulbright Scholar with the University of Arizona.
Her first book, Unmarked, was published in 2004. Her second, Geographies of a Lover, arrived in Spring 2012 and won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry in British Columbia that year. For two consecutive years, Sarah de Leeuw was honoured in the Creative Nonfiction category of the CBC Literary Awards, winning first place for "Quick-quick. Slow. Slow." in 2010. In 2013, her essay "Soft Shoulder" earned a Western Magazine Gold Award.
She currently divides her time between Prince George and Kelowna, BC.
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Editorial Reviews
"Radical Food Geographies is a stellar example of what it means to put food at the center of world building. From the initial development of the concept of radical food geographies in 2019 to the publication of this book, Hammelman, Levkoe, Reynolds and all the contributors demonstrate the value of slow, deep, collaborative work. This collection shows us that is the work that leads us toward the just, equitable (food) futures we deserve." Ashanté M. Reese, University of Texas at Austin
"Radical Food Geographies makes a major contribution to understanding resistance to, and action against the injustices of the food system, showing how theory and action can be articulated through praxis. The volume demonstrates this notably through the engagement of authors from diverse disciplinary, professional and geographical backgrounds working beyond Eurocentric and anglophone epistemological dominance in a process of co-creation and collaboration." Coline Perrin, Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation, l’Environnement (INRAE), UMR Innovation
“Radical Food Geographies offers a powerful framework to analyse the systemic forces shaping food experiences around the world while simultaneously providing inspiration for resisting and transforming these oppressive structures through collaborative scholarship and activism.” Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, San Diego State University
"The myths about food, unsurprisingly, serve to reinforce the very forces and interests that profit from the desire to address the “crises” conjured by those myths. For example, there is the myth about the urgency to accelerate agricultural production because… global hunger. And the one about hunger befalling the... less fortunate. Although these, and related myths are touched upon in this anthology, the primary reason to read this book is not just to understand, but to take effective action, through addressing root causes of global food system dysfunctions. The authors communicate in different ways, from different sources of authority, but all converge on this insight: economic power, transformed into political power, creates perverse disparities that must be seen and countered by social power. Yes, that is a food topic. Read this timely tome to fathom, and act upon, the abundant global evidence." Ricardo J. Salvador, Advisor, Union of Concerned Scientists
