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Session II: Intersections of Food, Social Control, Labor, and More-Than-Human Relations

Critical engagement with geographies of food and agriculture necessitates interdisciplinary thinking. Recent scholarship demonstrates the potency of these interdisciplinary engagements, with poignant work being forged, for example, in Black food geographies (Garth and Reese, 2020; Reese, 2019; Ramírez, 2015); radical food geographies (Hammelman, Reynolds, & Levkoe, 2020); Indigenous food sovereignties (Daigle, 2019); and food and carcerality (Black, 2022; Reese and Sbicca, 2022). Interdisciplinary engagements are especially apropos given the location of this year’s Annual AAG meeting, as Denver, Colorado is the site of intersecting injustices – from settler colonialism and environmental racism, to water crises, housing injustices, and food apartheid – and the many attendant social justice movements organizing to address them. Taking inspiration from often under-acknowledged knowledge and intersecting struggles at the heart of food justice, this session aims to give space for innovative, creative, and experimental approaches to food, with a special eye to trans- and interdisciplinarity.
In the session(s) organized from this CFP, we hope to bring together scholars, activists, scholar-activist, and activist-scholars whose work takes up often under-studied topics, theoretical, and epistemological perspectives. Therefore, we welcome experimental, empirical, and conceptual works that push the disciplinary boundaries of critical food geographies, including works that foster critical departures and generative interventions. Contributors may engage food-related topics from or across, for example: disability justice, abolition and anti-carceral studies, decolonial and anti-colonial studies, fat studies, queer studies, environmental and climate justice, racial ecologies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, among other areas. We are especially interested in scholarship that thoughtfully and intentionally addresses relevant dynamics of power through an intersectional lens. We also welcome “in-the-works” approaches, and contributions from folks who may not primarily identify their work as “food studies” or who see themselves as “outside of geography.” In doing so, we hope these sessions can serve as boundary-spanning and relationship-building spaces.

References
Black, Sara Thomas. 2022. “Abolitionist Food Justice: Theories of Change Rooted in Place- and Life-Making.” Food and Foodways 0(0):1–19.

Daigle, M. 2019. Tracing the terrain of Indigenous food sovereignties. The Journal of Peasant Studies 46(2), 297-315.

Garth, Hanna, and Ashanté M. Reese, eds. 2020. Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Hammelman, Colleen, Reynolds, Kristin, and Levkoe, Charles Z., eds. 2020. Special Issue “Radical Food Geographies.” Human Geography 13(3).

Ramírez, Margaret Marietta. 2015. “The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces.” Antipode 47(3):748–69.

Reese, Ashanté M. 2019. Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Reese, Ashanté M., and Joshua Sbicca, eds. 2022. Special Issue “Food and Carcerality: From Confinement to Abolition.” Food and Foodways 30(1-2).

Non-Presenting Participants