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**CALL FOR PAPERS**

 

Food Justice: knowing
food/securing the future

University of Reading, UK, 16th-17th July 2014

 

Sponsored by the Norma Wilkinson Trust, the Geographies of Justice
Research Group, the RGS-IBG and
the University of Reading.

 

http://foodjustice2014.wordpress.com/


 

Organizers: Agatha Herman, Mike Goodman & Sally Lloyd-Evans
(University of Reading)


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From farmers’
markets to food deserts, food banks to community allotments, the concept of
food justice engages with the contemporary global challenges of food access,
sovereignty and security through the lens of social and spatial inclusion/exclusion.  This two-day conference aims to make space
for otherwise marginalised stories and relations with food by creating an
opportunity for academics, civil society and policy professionals to work
together to discuss and address some of these issues.  The conference focus on justice and
inclusion/exclusion connects into broader social debates on inequality, race,
gender, class, identity, livelihoods and agency and we welcome anyone
interested in these issues to come along and participate.

Depending on the
quality and volume of papers received, we plan to produce either a special
themed journal issue or an edited volume in the Ashgate Critical Food Studies
series alongside an overview report to be
disseminated to civil society and policy organisations.


Confirmed speakers include Nik Heynen (University of Georgia),
Liz Dowler (University
 of Warwick), Mike Goodman
(University of Reading) and David McAuley (The Trussell
Trust).


We invite you to
submit papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:








·        
Concepts of justice in the context of food

·        
Food access and exclusions

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Austerity, access and diets

·        
Food banks and alternative food supplies

·        
Civic Food

·        
Food, identity and body image

·        
Food and family

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Community gardening/production

·        
Food activism

·        
Food policy and policy contexts

·        
Conventional and alternative food networks

·        
Sustainability/resilience of food systems

·        
Changing food geographies

·        
How to practise food justice






Contributions are welcome from
a range of areas across and beyond geography, including engagements from
outside academia.

Please send abstracts of
200-300 words to Agatha Herman ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 30th May 2014.