Food Systems, Urban Change, and the Dynamics of Power 2
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Date: 3/25/2023
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Mineral Hall B, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Type: Paper, Hybrid session with both in-person and virtual presenters
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
Curated Track:
Sponsor Group(s):
Geographies of Food and Agriculture Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Colleen Hammelman UNC Charlotte
Dylan Turner UNC Charlotte
Chair(s):
Colleen Hammelman UNC Charlotte
Dylan Turner UNC Charlotte
Description:
Food systems literature increasingly attends to the ways in which food systems are intertwined with urban restructuring processes such as neighborhood change, place-branding, and economic development. Food producers and consumers construct and negotiate urban space in everyday foodscapes (Hammelman, 2018; Joassart-Marcelli, 2021; Miewald and McCann, 2014). Restaurants, grocery stores, street vending and urban gardens contribute to place making, identity construction, and urban conflicts. Food businesses can be markers of neighborhood character and value while also signaling a neighborhood as ripe for gentrification (Alkon, Kato, & Sbicca, 2020; Lütke and Lemon, 2021; Reese, 2020; among others). Moreover, the development of a food landscape can be an active driver of gentrification (Joassart-Marcelli, 2021). It is clear that food systems are both a product of and contributing force in the remaking of cities under capitalist, neoliberal, patriarchal, white supremacist and colonial regimes (Hammelman, Reynolds, & Levkoe, 2020). This session seeks to examine these phenomena through contributions focused both on uncovering the role of food systems in urban restructuring processes and in efforts to resist historical and structural marginalizations.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Dylan Turner, University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
Investing Without a Return: Local Food Systems, Social Service Agencies, and Economic Mobility |
Anna Duerr |
Food Access and Inequity in Utica, New York: A Critique of the Food Desert Concept |
Stephanie Buechler, Pennsylvania State University |
Environmental displacement effects on urban farmers in Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina |
Devin Wright, Tulane University |
A Frontline Metropolitan Food System: Urban/Rural Connections and Displacement |
louise guibrunet |
Exploring the role of street vending in urban access to healthy food |
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Food Systems, Urban Change, and the Dynamics of Power 2
Description
Type: Paper, Hybrid session with both in-person and virtual presenters
Date: 3/25/2023
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Mineral Hall B, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Contact the Primary Organizer
Colleen Hammelman UNC Charlotte
colleen.hammelman@uncc.edu
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