Fwd: Call for papers
Simon Nicholson
From: Annelise Straw <as4...@student.american.edu>
Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 2:33 PM
Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference
February 27 – 29, 2020
University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Title: It’s not just about getting your hands in the dirt: Decolonizing food education
Co-organizers: Nathan Erwin and Annelise Straw | American University
From kindergarten through their senior year, public school students are exposed to the unspoken complexities and power dynamics of the food system. This session seeks to explore the political ecology of food, school gardens, and food education through a decolonial pedagogy. School gardens can serve as mechanisms of oppression; however, this session works to decolonize both food education and the broader food system.
We are accepting work that ranges from topic on large government entities’ impact on public education (such as the USDA and DoED) to the small but mighty acts that leads to food becoming an instrument of liberation. This session will be organized into rapid paper presentations followed by an extended panel discussion on the topic where academics sit beside expert-practitioners. This discussion structure is a commitment to community-scholar collaboration and intends to facilitate equitable dialogue with the intent of producing an ongoing working group. This session’s discussion will be elevated beyond this conference through local public media.
Paper themes that may contribute to the goal of this session include:
Erasure of agricultural knowledge within the food system
Critiquing the coloniality of school gardens
Why school gardens fail? - Labor? Funding? Class?
School gardens as spaces of whiteness
Big agriculture’s grasp on school garden seeds
The DoED/USDA’s Neoliberal policies impacting school food
Racialization of food education and the eurocentric notion of nutrition
If interested, please email a 200 word abstract and a brief synopsis of how your interests relate to this conversation on decolonial perspectives of food education to Annelise Straw (as4...@american.edu) and Nate Erwin (nathan...@gmail.com) by October 30. Participants will be notified by November 8, 2019 and must submit their abstract to DOPE by December 1, 2019.
Note: DOPE requires that all participants in pre-organized sessions be registered for the conference and submit their abstracts by December 1, 2019.
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Wil Burns
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