Framing the fight: Food, history, and meaning in the mess
First paragraph: Issues of food systems can be cast in a glaring light that obscures nuance and polarizes dialogue. We get closer to the truth when we pull back from our present constructions of the issues and allow ourselves to experience the dynamic, marvelously complicated stories of how they...
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Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
2020-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/895 |
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Issues of food systems can be cast in a glaring light that obscures nuance and polarizes dialogue. We get closer to the truth when we pull back from our present constructions of the issues and allow ourselves to experience the dynamic, marvelously complicated stories of how they have formed, what forces drove them, and how those forces affect us still. Such histories entail tension and convergence, missed opportunities, best-laid plans, and unintended consequences. The understandable impulse may be to avoid difficult and even painful realizations of how entangled food has become with larger issues of class, identity, and political economy. The authors of Food Fights do not let us off the hook. They invite us instead to walk back through these issues more deeply, more critically, using a historical frame that allows us to see the issues, if not more clearly, at least more honestly. . . . |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9d31555e903e4317948f50d2641fb1532023-09-02T14:43:03ZengLyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food SystemsJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development2152-08012020-11-0110110.5304/jafscd.2020.101.022Framing the fight: Food, history, and meaning in the messJess Gerrior0University of Southern Maine and Antioch University New EnglandFirst paragraph: Issues of food systems can be cast in a glaring light that obscures nuance and polarizes dialogue. We get closer to the truth when we pull back from our present constructions of the issues and allow ourselves to experience the dynamic, marvelously complicated stories of how they have formed, what forces drove them, and how those forces affect us still. Such histories entail tension and convergence, missed opportunities, best-laid plans, and unintended consequences. The understandable impulse may be to avoid difficult and even painful realizations of how entangled food has become with larger issues of class, identity, and political economy. The authors of Food Fights do not let us off the hook. They invite us instead to walk back through these issues more deeply, more critically, using a historical frame that allows us to see the issues, if not more clearly, at least more honestly. . . .https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/895Food MovementsFood DebatesFood PolicyFood Culture |
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