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What Does It Mean To Do Food Justice?, K. Valentine Cadieux, Rachel Slocum
What Does It Mean To Do Food Justice?, K. Valentine Cadieux, Rachel Slocum
College of Liberal Arts All Faculty Scholarship
'Food justice' and 'food sovereignty' have become key words in food movement scholarship and activism. In the case of 'food justice', it seems the word is often substituted for work associated with projects typical of the alternative or local food movement. We argue that it is important for scholars and practitioners to be clear on how food justice differs from other efforts to seek an equitable food system. In the interests of ensuring accountability to socially just research and action, as well as mounting a tenable response to the 'feed the world' paradigm that often sweeps aside concerns with justice …
Notes On The Practice Of Food Justice In The U.S.: Understanding And Confronting Trauma And Inequity, Rachel Slocum, K. Valentine Cadieux
Notes On The Practice Of Food Justice In The U.S.: Understanding And Confronting Trauma And Inequity, Rachel Slocum, K. Valentine Cadieux
College of Liberal Arts All Faculty Scholarship
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 …