Speaking Event: Food, Place, & Justice - Race, Gender & Class in the Local Foods Movement
| When: | Wednesday, February 22 2012 @ 10:30 AM - - 11:45AM |
| Where: | the Almaden Room, SJSU Student Union One Washington Square San José, CA 95112 |
| Description: | This presentation explores the relationship between environmental justice, ecofeminism, food, and that branch of bioregional theory known as philosophy of place. Using as an example a neighborhood in a racially integrated area of Philadelphia with a thriving local foods community that nonetheless is nearly exclusively white and in which women are the invisible majority of purchasers, farmers, and preparers, I explain what environmental justice theory and ecofeminism—two areas of environmental inquiry that help make visible the interconnections between environmental and social problems—contribute to our understanding of the racial, gendered, and classed discrepancies between who does and does not tend to participate in practices of locavorism and the local foods movement. By attending to the intersecting nature of eco-social issues, I argue, we can invigorate communities, link the social and the ecological, and devise better policy solutions to help increase access and participation by all socio-economic groups in local food. This event is sponsored by The Department of Environmental Studies at SJSU |