Reform, Justice, and Sovereignty: A Food Systems Agenda for Environmental Communication

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2018-01-01
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Gordon, Constance
Hunt, Kathleen
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Food ecologies and economies are vital to the survival of communities, non-human species, and our planet. While environmental communication scholars have legitimated food as a topic of inquiry, the entangled ecological, cultural, economic, racial, colonial, and alimentary relations that sustain food systems demand greater attention. In this essay, we review literature within and beyond environmental communication, charting the landscape of critical food work in our field. We then illustrate how environmental justice commitments can invigorate interdisciplinary food systems-focused communication scholarship articulating issues of, and critical responses to, injustice and inequity across the food chain. We stake an agenda for food systems communication by mapping three orientations—food system reform, justice, and sovereignty—that can assist in our critical engagements with and interventions into the food system. Ultimately, we entreat environmental communication scholars to attend to the bends, textures, and confluences of these orientations so that we may deepen our future food-related inquiries.

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This article is published as Gordon, Constance, and Kathleen Hunt. "Reform, justice, and sovereignty: A food systems agenda for environmental communication." Environmental Communication (2018). doi: 10.1080/17524032.2018.1435559.

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