Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies
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Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies

  1. 217 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies

About this book

Presents an argument for a food justice-oriented rhetoric and literacy that shifts the emphasis in the local food movement from individualized conscious eater literacies to addressing the broader social, political, and cultural implications, histories, and power relations embedded in the food system.

Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies provides a critical examination of the dominant rhetorical tropes and arguments of local food discourse and their exclusions. The author addresses that through understanding complex patterns of discrimination and social action in relation to land ownership and food production, we can begin to imagine and enact a more just and sustainable food system. This book explores and assesses periods in history when the U.S. public took an active role in agriculture through publicly-promoted, often federal and state subsidized gardening projects and widescale grassroots gardening efforts in times of crisis, thus building alternative agrarian literacies among the U.S. publics and ensuring a stable food supply during times of crisis.

The shift to a food justice-oriented rhetoric centers food activists, BIPOC farmers, community gardeners and policy advocates who are seeking to change systems of food production and distribution so that all can eat well.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Figures
  8. Introduction: Engaging Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
  9. Chapter 1: Locating the “Crisis” Rhetorics and Literacies around Food and Farming
  10. Chapter 2: Who Is in and Who Is Out? Alternative Food Networks, Conscious Eater Literacies, and the Rhetorics of Local Food
  11. Chapter 3: The Racialized Rhetorics of Food Politics: Black Farmers, the Case of Shirley Sherrod, and the Struggle for Land Equity and Access
  12. Chapter 4: Gardening for Victory: The Rhetorics and Literacies of Community Gardening
  13. Chapter 5: Toward Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies in Precarious Times
  14. References
  15. Index
  16. About the Author