The relationship between research and food justice/sovereignty is simultaneously fraught while also being full of potential. Sorting out how to best enable a transformative and just research practices/praxis is an important area of work. This new special issue in the Journal ACME presents six new articles addressing these issues. See the links below to download (free, open access). You may also be interested in some of our own recent work in this area:
- Levkoe, C. Z., Brem-Wilson, J. & Anderson, C. R. 2018. People, power, change: three pillars of a food sovereignty research praxis. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1-24.
- People’s Knowledge Editorial Collective (Eds). (2017). Everyday Experts: How people’s knowledge can transform the food system. Reclaiming Diversity and Citizenship Series. Coventry: Coventry University.
- Tornaghi, C. & Van Dyck, B. (2015) ‘Research-informed gardening activism: steering the public food and land agenda’. Local Environment, 20 (10), 1247-1264.
The summer school we ran in summer 2018 also addressed many of the issues, especially around power and privilege in researcher-researched relationships and the politics of knowledge.
ACME Special Issue
Food Justice Scholar-Activism and Activist-Scholarship (Guest Eds Reynolds, Block, & Bradley)