You can find links to the readings for the DOPE11 reading group HERE
Welcome to the first ever Dimensions of Political Ecology Reading Group! For the next few months (Nov-Feb), the organizers will hold monthly reading groups centered around the political ecologies of food, especially themes of Land and Food Justice. We want this to be a low stress environment, so we’re going with articles and essays for the first three meetings, culminating in the reading of Black Food Geographies at our February session. To that point, if you are only able to read one article, or skim them briefly but would still like to attend, you’re more than welcome! We envision a discussion with the readings as a launching point, rather than a close reading of solely the text. We will be providing the readings via email a month in advance of each session as well as housing the readings within a shared google folder.
Below is the schedule for the reading group, with the dates/ times, themes, and readings for each month. If you are interested in attending one or more of these sessions, please be sure to indicate which one(s) you will attend with your conference registration. ***Please Note: your attendance at these meetings can be flexible, feel free to attend all of the meetings or just the months that are of interest***
We hope to see you soon!
Sincerely,
The DoPE 11 Organizing Collective
- READING GROUP SCHEDULE -
November
Theme: Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Date & Time: Thursday November 19th, 2020 at 5:30 pm EST
Readings:
- Hoover, E. (2017). “You Can’t Say You’re Sovereign if You Can’t Feed Yourself”: Defining and Enacting Food Sovereignty in American Indian Community Gardening. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 41(3), 31–70. https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.41.3.hoover
- Excerpts from Williams, J. M., & Holt-Giménez, E. (Eds.). (2017). Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons. Food First Books.
- Trauger, A. (2014). Toward a political geography of food sovereignty: Transforming territory, exchange and power in the liberal sovereign state. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(6), 1131–1152. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.937339
- Holt-Giménez, E. (2018). This Thanksgiving, Remember the People’s History of Our Food. Food First. Retrieved October 7, 2020, from https://foodfirst.org/this-thanksgiving-remember-the-peoples-history-of-our-food/
December
Theme: Black Foodways & Land Liberation
Date & Time: Thursday December 17, 2020 at 5:30 pm EST
Readings:
- Excerpts from Black Agrarianism in Williams, J. M., & Holt-Giménez, E. (Eds.). (2017). Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons. Food First Books.
- Ramírez, M. M. (2015). The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces. Antipode, 47(3), 748–769. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12131
- Reese, A., & Carr, R. (2020, June 19). Overthrowing the Food System’s Plantation Paradigm. Civil Eats. https://civileats.com/2020/06/19/op-ed-overthrowing-the-food-systems-plantation-paradigm/
- Gripper, A. (2020, May 27). We don’t farm because it’s trendy; we farm as resistance, for healing and sovereignty. EHN. https://www.ehn.org/black-farming-food-sovereignty-2645479216.html
- McCutcheon, P. (2020, July 27). Prophetic Black Ecologies: Liberatory Agriculture on Beulah Land Farms. AAIHS. https://www.aaihs.org/prophetic-black-ecologies-liberatory-agriculture-on-beulah-land-farms/
January
Theme: Seeds & Agrobiodiversity
Date & Time: Tentative - Thursday January 28, 2021 at 5:30 pm EST
Readings:
- Graddy, T. G. (2014). Situating In Situ: A Critical Geography of Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation in the Peruvian Andes and Beyond: Situating In Situ. Antipode, 46(2), 426–454. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12045
- Others based on group discussion.
February
Theme: Black Food Geographies
Date & Time: Tentative DoPE 11 Reading Group - Friday February 19th, 2021 at 5:30 pm EST
Readings:
- Reese, A. M. (2019). Black food geographies: Race, self-reliance, and food access in Washington, D.C. University of North Carolina Press.