Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies: Literacies and Rhetorics for Transforming Food Systems in Local and Transnational Contexts brings together national and transnational scholars in the field of rhetoric, composition, writing studies, and other interdisciplinary fields to address food as a topic of inquiry and a matter of social and environmental justice. The contributors in this edited collection demonstrate that analyzing the literacies, rhetorics, and pedagogies needed to transform food systems is vital to creating sustainable food systems. The contributors advocate that food learning be taught and engaged at all levels of schooling and in society, including college courses and community settings. Scholars of rhetoric, interdisciplinary food studies, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.
Eileen E. Schell is professor of writing and rhetoric, L. Douglas and Laura J. Meredith professor of teaching excellence, and faculty affiliate in Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. Dianna Winslow is assistant director and writing instruction specialist for the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at California Polytechnic. Pritisha Shrestha is Ph.D. candidate in the Composition and Cultural and Rhetoric (CCR) program at Syracuse University.
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Framing Food Justice and Literacies for Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Eileen E. Schell and Dianna Winslow Section I Chapter 1: Reclaiming Forgotten Literacies: Agency through Food Literacy, Nabila Hijazi Chapter 2: Dreaming of Sustainable Futures and Gastronomic Pasts: Cultural Heritage and the Rhetorical Value of Food, Ellen Platts Chapter 3: Flatbush Eats: Lessons from a Community History and Writing Project, Deborah Mutnick Chapter 4: Smell of the Other: Race, Ethnicity, and Fear of One's Own Cooking Odors, Bibhushana Poudyal and Mala Rai Section II Chapter 5: Seeds of the Diaspora: Using Creative Writing to Explore Critical Food Literacies with Youth of Color, OreOluwa Badaki Chapter 6: Rekindling Hope, Building Resilience: New Agrarian Literacies on the Llano Estacado, Callie F. Kostelich Chapter 7: Once You Sell Us on the Service We Can Render: Agricultural Public Relations, Feminist Food Literacies, and the Rhetorical Power of Women in Ag, Cori Brewster Chapter 8: When the Land Writes: The Rhetorical Life of Soil and Plants, Veronica House and Kelly Zepelin Chapter 9: Right to Food and Access to Food through the lens of Citizenship Discourse in Nepal Pritisha Shrestha Section III Chapter 10: Toward Sustainable, Transparent Food Research: Students' Applications of Critical Agrifood, Abby M.Dubisar Chapter 11: From Food Security to Food Justice and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Critical Pedagogy, Deborah Adelman and Shamili Ajgaonkar Chapter 12: Food Justice and Garden Writing in First-Year Seminars at Bates College, Stephanie Wade About the Contributors
