Place, Belonging, Exclusion and Power Relations
Food Politics
Food Sovereignty
Food Insecurity
Chronic Food Insecurity: long-term, unable to access minimum amount of food (6 months of the year or longer)
Transitory Food Insecurity: short-term, sudden impact on ability to access foods
Seasonal Food Insecurity: result of climate = predictable
Soil Justice
Who has access to soil?
Access to soil = developing belonging/inclusion
Soil dispossess people
Food Industry/Companies
58% of food is wasted in
Canada
Access/Cost of food
Advertising
Healthy VS Unhealthy foods & brands
Accessibility and Availability
Black Food Geographies
"Race is embedded in food project spaces"
Ramirez, Margaret Marietta. 2015
Labour Practices
Migrant Farm workers
Migration Geographies
Climate Refugees: Forced to leave due to climate crisis
Economic Migrants: Voluntarily leaving to another place
War Refugees: Forced to leave home country due to generalized violence
Refugees: Forced to leave home country due to persecution
Racialization
Whiteness
White Supremacy
Technology
"False Arrest of Pregnant Woman in Detroit Highlights
Racial Bias in Facial Recognition Technology"
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/9/false_arrest_of_pregnant_woman_in
Spatial Segregation
Body
"Black Women are over 3 times more likely
to die from pregnancy-related causes than white
women" https://thenib.com/pregnancy-and-race/
Sites
Capitalism
Social Production of Labour
Social Class
Sameness VS Differences
Seeking to control
Exploitation
Consumerism
Hierarchical structure
Patriarchy
Education
Disposability
'Normal' produced by capitalism
Normal VS Abnormal
Whiteness
Ableism
Capitalist mindset: normal sells: Recipe books assume
the user is able-bodied
Heteronormative
Westernized
Gendered
Male VS Female
Health
Biomedical Model
Hospitals
Biomedical body & its direct function
"Issues" ->seeking to find a singular fix
Pathology
Social Cultural Model
Invisable illnesses
Mental health
Structural & Behavioral Causes
Living & Working Conditions
Age, sex & constitutional factors
Individual factors
Sickness from Society
General Socioeconomic, culture
& environmental conditions
Social and architectural determinants of health
Social and health infrastructure
Community belonging -> community programs
Environment/Climate
Climate crisis
Political Ecology
Slow Violence
Environmental Racism
Nature as a resource
Identity
Fluid/changing
Spatial
Time
Performance of identity
How people understand us
Relationships
Who you are /how you relate to yourselves
Food
Employment
Neighbourhoods/communities
Social Class
Age
Religion/culture
Race
Sexuality
Gender
Interests
Education
Anthropocentrism
Exploit animals
Loving VS Disgusting animals
Disgusting animals are
those deemed 'unpredictable'
Valued VS Disposable
Animals used for food
Animals used for fashion
Animals used for laboratory practices
Exploit land
Urbanization
Urban Planning focused around
human needs
Camping, cottaging, golfing
Colonialism
Waste Colonialism
Ethical relations
China & Thailand receive our garbage
Deserving VS Undeserving
Indigenous Communities
Access to land
Residential Schools
Prisons
Winnipeg: Indigenous women
have highest population in
prisons
Traditional food insecurities
Politized water
Access to clean water
Mining
Extracting resources resulting
livelihood of Indigenous