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K. Valentine Cadieux

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Notes On The Practice Of Food Justice In The U.S.: Understanding And Confronting Trauma And Inequity, K. Valentine Cadieux, Rachel Slocum Mar 2016

Notes On The Practice Of Food Justice In The U.S.: Understanding And Confronting Trauma And Inequity, K. Valentine Cadieux, Rachel Slocum

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In this article, we focus on one of the four nodes (trauma/inequity, exchange, land and labor) around which food justice organizing appears to occur: acknowledging and confronting historical, collective trauma and persistent race, gender, and class inequality. We apply what we have learned from our research in U.S. and Canadian agri-food systems to suggest working methods that might guide practitioners as they work toward food justice, and scholars as they seek to study it. In the interests of ensuring accountability to socially just research and action, we suggest that scholars and practitioners need to be more clear on what it …

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Visual Methods For Collaborative Food System Work, K. Valentine Cadieux, Charles Z. Levkoe, P. Mount, D. Szanto Dec 2015

Visual Methods For Collaborative Food System Work, K. Valentine Cadieux, Charles Z. Levkoe, P. Mount, D. Szanto

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A Field Guide To Making Food Good: An Interactive Tool For Participatory Research Supporting Difficult Conversations, K. Valentine Cadieux Dec 2012

A Field Guide To Making Food Good: An Interactive Tool For Participatory Research Supporting Difficult Conversations, K. Valentine Cadieux

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The resource described here is a prototype for a "field guide" to what makes food good, focusing on how to identify someone else's "good," even (or especially) if you don't think you agree with that person. I provide some background to the project of developing this field guide, and then describe the tool itself and some implications and challenges involved in using it. I focus on ways the tool addresses interaction between competing perspectives on what makes food good, and the values different constituencies prioritize as they attempt to institutionalize their vision of a good food system. My collaborators and …

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Other Women’S Gardens: Radical Homemakers And Public Performance Of The Politics Of Feeding, K. Valentine Cadieux Dec 2012

Other Women’S Gardens: Radical Homemakers And Public Performance Of The Politics Of Feeding, K. Valentine Cadieux

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‘Properly, With Love, From Scratch’: Jamie Oliver’S Food Revolution, K. Valentine Cadieux Dec 2010

‘Properly, With Love, From Scratch’: Jamie Oliver’S Food Revolution, K. Valentine Cadieux

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What to eat is of great concern to the U.S. public; it is the subject of social organizing at many scales and the focus of significant academic discussion. This article analyzesJamie Oliver's Food Revolution (JOFR), a much-discussed reality show that aired in 2010 in the United States, in which English celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, well known in the United Kingdom for directing government and public attention to school lunch, brought his campaign to promote fresh-cooked food to Huntington, West Virginia. We recognize the capacity of JOFR to encourage people to act on behalf of their and their …

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Engagement With The Land: Redemption Of The Rural Residence Fantasy?, K. Valentine Cadieux Dec 2004

Engagement With The Land: Redemption Of The Rural Residence Fantasy?, K. Valentine Cadieux

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