Fwd: "Urban Food Efforts": looking for proposals for June conference (Deadline today - Feb. 1)
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Debbie Hillman
Feb 1, 2013, 9:51:34 AM2/1/13
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See Evan Weissman's email below, asking for a few more proposals on "Urban Food Efforts", one of the sessions at the
Joint 2013 Annual Meetings & Conference of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), & Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN).
Wednesday, June 19 - Saturday, June 22, 2013
Joint 2013 Annual Meetings & Conference of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), & Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN).
Wednesday, June 19 - Saturday, June 22, 2013
Michigan State University - East Lansing, Michigan
The deadline is today (Feb. 1), but they are only looking for 150-word abstracts. This conference, more than most academic conferences, invite "activists" to present. You do not have to be an academic to send in a proposal.
If you have something already written -- for example, from a grant proposal -- I hope people in Illinois will apply. The more I learn about other food system work in other geographies, the more I think we in Illinois (and the Midwest) are doing things a little differently. We should be sharing -- both our successes and our difficulties.
-- Debbie
Debbie Hillman
Evanston, Illinois
D. Hillman Strategies: Food Policy for Voters
From: Evan Weissman <evanwe...@yahoo.com>
Date: January 31, 2013 9:52:34 PM CST
Subject: [COMFOOD: ] CFP: AFHVS/ASFS Urban Food Projects
Reply-To: Evan Weissman <evanwe...@yahoo.com>
Sorry for cross-postings and an 11th hour appeal but we are looking for a few more papers for this proposed session at the upcoming AFHVS/ASFS meeting. The deadline is tomorrow.
Best,
Evan
Call for Papers
AFHVS/ASFS Meeting
June 19-22 2013, Michigan State University
Session:
Urban Food Efforts: Innovations and Challenges
Organizers:
Evan Weissman, Food Studies, Syracuse University
Jonnell A. Robinson, Syracuse Community Geography, Syracuse University
The profound inequalities produced by the conventional food system, especially disparities in access to fresh food in urban neighborhoods, have compelled many communities to build alternative food networks. Efforts to address the food gap are not new, but urban food initiatives today take on new dimensions as activists, scholars, and policy-makers engage in various projects that confront both material realities and emergent understandings of food justice. Within the current complexities of urban foodscapes, food alternatives face a variety of challenges.
Taking cues from this year’s theme “Toward Sustainable Foodscapes and Landscapes,” this session seeks to highlight unique and innovative models for addressing urban food inequalities. We seek short, “lightening” presentations that explore programs, grassroots efforts, and local policies that seek to address urban foodscape inequality. We invite researchers, practitioners, and activists to share their work on unique and innovative food justice projects and critical analyses of this work. Through this session we hope to bring critical scholarship into conversation with applied research and on-the-ground reports from urban food justice efforts.
Possible topics for this session include:
• Urban farm shares
• Urban-rural networks and linkages
• Mobile markets
• Alternative cooperative and CSA models
• Food hubs
• The politics of urban food projects
• Integration of food justice into other social justice efforts
• The political economy of urban food projects
Please send abstracts of 150 words or less to ewei...@syr.edu and jda...@syr.edu by February 1, 2013.
Best,
Evan
Call for Papers
AFHVS/ASFS Meeting
June 19-22 2013, Michigan State University
Session:
Urban Food Efforts: Innovations and Challenges
Organizers:
Evan Weissman, Food Studies, Syracuse University
Jonnell A. Robinson, Syracuse Community Geography, Syracuse University
The profound inequalities produced by the conventional food system, especially disparities in access to fresh food in urban neighborhoods, have compelled many communities to build alternative food networks. Efforts to address the food gap are not new, but urban food initiatives today take on new dimensions as activists, scholars, and policy-makers engage in various projects that confront both material realities and emergent understandings of food justice. Within the current complexities of urban foodscapes, food alternatives face a variety of challenges.
Taking cues from this year’s theme “Toward Sustainable Foodscapes and Landscapes,” this session seeks to highlight unique and innovative models for addressing urban food inequalities. We seek short, “lightening” presentations that explore programs, grassroots efforts, and local policies that seek to address urban foodscape inequality. We invite researchers, practitioners, and activists to share their work on unique and innovative food justice projects and critical analyses of this work. Through this session we hope to bring critical scholarship into conversation with applied research and on-the-ground reports from urban food justice efforts.
Possible topics for this session include:
• Urban farm shares
• Urban-rural networks and linkages
• Mobile markets
• Alternative cooperative and CSA models
• Food hubs
• The politics of urban food projects
• Integration of food justice into other social justice efforts
• The political economy of urban food projects
Please send abstracts of 150 words or less to ewei...@syr.edu and jda...@syr.edu by February 1, 2013.
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