School Food Politics: A Conversation with Jennifer Gaddis
Faron Levesque sits down with Dr. Jennifer Gaddis to discuss Gaddis’s book, The Labor of Lunch, and how school food can fuel the fight for justice for both workers and students.
Tagged: Food and Agriculture
Exhibiting Agricultural Development in India
Geographer Eden Kinkaid provides a tour of an exhibit at the National Agricultural Science Museum in India and discusses how it shapes narratives of development and modernity beyond the museum walls.
The Quarantine Garden
Gardening is on the rise as the world quarantines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anna Muenchrath considers the implications and opportunities of the quarantine garden in her review of The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times.
Keeping Time with Colombian Plantation Calendars
Timothy Lorek compares two calendars from Colombia that offer competing visions of plantation presents and agricultural futures.
Composting’s Colonial Roots and Microbial Offshoots
Current methods of composting came out of colonial plantation agriculture, but have become a key way of practicing polyculture and imagining multispecies communities.
Fugitive Seeds
Christian Brooks Keeve traces how fugitive seeds and seed stories are deeply entangled with the stories and legacies of the Black diaspora.
Can Small-Scale Farming Save Oil Palm?
Drawing from her fieldwork with small-scale oil palm growers and plantation workers in Colombia, Angela Serrano describes a smaller way to farm oil palm.
Sankofa Farms Is an Education: Five Questions for Kamal Bell
Farmer and educator Kamal Bell discusses the growth of Sankofa Farms and the legacies of racism and dispossession for African American farmers.
Organic Farming’s Political History
Organic farming has far-right roots. While the movement has grown beyond those, its history shows why we must examine our theories of social change.
Chicago’s Deep History of Vegetarianism: A Conversation with Connie Johnston and Kay Stepkin
The National Vegetarian Museum celebrates Chicago’s vegetarian past with a traveling exhibit about the vegetarian firsts of the Second City and beyond.
