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Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies

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Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies

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Presents an argument for a food justice-oriented rhetoric and literacy that shifts the emphasis in the local food movement from individualized conscious eater literacies to addressing the broader social, political, and cultural implications, histories, and power relations embedded in the food system.

Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies provides a critical examination of the dominant rhetorical tropes and arguments of local food discourse and their exclusions. The author addresses that through understanding complex patterns of discrimination and social action in relation to land ownership and food production, we can begin to imagine and enact a more just and sustainable food system. This book explores and assesses periods in history when the U.S. public took an active role in agriculture through publicly-promoted, often federal and state subsidized gardening projects and widescale grassroots gardening efforts in times of crisis, thus building alternative agrarian literacies among the U.S. publics and ensuring a stable food supply during times of crisis.

The shift to a food justice-oriented rhetoric centers food activists, BIPOC farmers, community gardeners and policy advocates who are seeking to change systems of food production and distribution so that all can eat well.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Engaging Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
1. Locating the “Crisis” Rhetorics and Literacies around Food and Farming
2. Who Is In and Who is Out? Alternative Food Networks, Conscious Eater Literacies, and the Rhetorics of Local Food
3. Racialized Rhetorics of Food Politics: Black Farmers, the Case of Shirley Sherrod, and Struggle for Land Equity and Access
4. Gardening for Victory: The Rhetorics and Literacies of Community Gardening
5. Toward Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies in Precarious Times
References
Index
About the Author

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Sep 04 2025
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 224
ISBN 9781666974300
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 15 b/w illustrations
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Author

Eileen E. Schell

Eileen E. Schell is Professor of Writing and Rheto…

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