CRD 20: Food Systems| Fall 2014
226 Wellman | T & Th 3:10-4:30 (Lecture)
105 Bowley | W various times (Lab)
!Instructor:
Katie Bradley
[email protected] (please put CRD 20 in subject line)
(510) 495-9057 (please provide your name when texting or leaving a voicemail)
Office Hours: 2312 Hart Hall | T and Th 1-2pm
!Lab Sections:
CRN 37531
9am-11:50am
CRN 37532
12:10pm-3pm
CRN 37533
3:10pm-6pm
Colin Mickle
[email protected]
(916) -718-6806
Scott Cosca
[email protected]
(530) 400-0797
Emily Baker
[email protected]
(505) 204-8223
Eco Garden | W 11am-12pm
Hart 2326 | 2-3pm
Eco Garden | W 1-3pm
Angelina Fernandez
[email protected]
(702) 556-9629
Abraham Cazares
[email protected]
(805) 816-8244
! Teaching Assistants:
! TA Office Hours:
!! !
Tutors:
Katherine Perkins
[email protected]
(918) 939-8911
! Tutor Office Hours
!! Tri-Coops Garden |F 2-5pm
|T 5:30-6:30pm
by appointment
Course Overview:
We will draw connections among production, distribution, processing, access, consumption, and waste in
relation to the food system. We will utilize theoretical frameworks that can help to explain the intersections of
food, social, political, and economic systems. Activities and assignments will emphasize how these theoretical
frameworks apply to existing strategies to promote environmental sustainability and social justice in the food
system. They will also encourage self-awareness of individual positions within these systems and strategies for
change.
!!
Required Text:
!
!
Holmes, S. (2013). Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of
California Press.
!
!1
Expectations of Students
I expect you to come to every class session prepared and ready to engage. I expect you to pursue rigorous
intellectual, emotional, and ethical processes, including evaluating your own and others’ thoughts, feelings,
and actions. For each assignment, I expect you to uphold academic norms and standards, which are described
in your lab manual. We will go on many field trips to conduct our fieldwork. For this to work logistically, each
team will be involved in field trip planning, a process that your TA will facilitate. I expect you to ask for help
when you need it. All of us on the teaching team are here to support you, as are other resources on campus
identified in the Resource Access Assignment. In pursing these expectations, I hope you will be challenged,
have fun, make friends, and explore your interests in this class.
!!
Grading: (
*denotes that the assignment is due at the beginning of class or exam period)
Title
Student Profile
On-Campus Team Project (in lab)
Food Diary
Complete data collection
Make initial contact with companies
Bibliography due
Final paper and map
Midterm Exam
Outlines and Bibliography
Draft and Annotations
Final draft
Off-Campus Team Project (in lab)
Final Essay
Resource Access
Part 1
Part 2
Points
Due Date(s)
October 7*
October 22
5
18
October 14
October 16
October 23
October 28*
25
November 11*
November 13*
November 18*
December 10
December 16*
20
30
2
October 23
December 9*
!!
Reading and Assignments (to be completed before class)
Some of these readings, especially following the mid-term, may change.
OCTOBER 2
No preparation.
Week 1 (total reading 87 pages)
!O
CTOBER 7
Read:
Chapters 1 and 2 in Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies. Pages 1-44.
Due: Student Profile
!O
CTOBER 9
Read:
Chapter 3 inFresh Fruit, Broken Bodies. Pages 45-87.
!
!2
Week 2 (total reading 83 pages)
!O
CTOBER 14
Read:
Chapter 4 in Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies. Pages 88-110.
Schlosser, E. (2002). On the Range. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston,
Mariner Books: 132-147.
!O
CTOBER 16
Read:
Friedmann, H. (1999) Circles of Growing and Eating: The Political Ecology of Food and
Agriculture. Food in Global History. R. Grew. Boulder, Westview Press: 33-57.
Wise, M. (2011). "Colonial Beef and the Blackfeet Reservation Slaughterhouse, 1879-1895." Radical
History Review(110): 59-82.
Week 3 (total reading approx. 50 pages)
!O
CTOBER 21
Read (according to lens assigned in lab — only available on smartsite):
Theoretical Lens’ Core Concepts Handouts (read what corresponds with your assigned lens)
Anthropology lens:
Mintz, S. W. (1985). Sweetness and power: the place of sugar in modern history. New York, Penguin:
XXV-XXX, 3-18.
Feminism lens:
Haraway, D. (1988). "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of
Partial Perspective." Feminist Studies 14(3): 575-599.
Ecology lens:
Francis, C., et al. (2003). "Agroecology: the ecology of food systems." Journal of Sustainable
Agriculture 22(3): 100-105.
Altieri, M. (2009). "Agroecology, small farms, and food sovereignty." Monthly Review 61(3): 102-113.
Political Economy lens:
Kloppenburg, J. R. (2005). First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, Second
Edition. Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press: 1-18.
!O
CTOBER 23
Read:
Lyson, T. A. (2004). Civic agriculture: reconnecting farm, food, and community. Medford,
Massachusetts, Tufts University Press: 30-60
Due:
Resource Access Assignment Part 1 due
Week 4 (total reading 43)
!O
CTOBER 28
Due:
Food Diary Essay, Map, and Log
!O
CTOBER 30
Read:
Chapters 6 and 7 in Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies. Pages 155-198
!3
Week 5 (total reading 77 pages)
!N
OVEMBER 4
Read:
Lappé, Frances Moore, Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset, and Luis Esparza. 1998. World hunger: twelve myths.
New York: Grove Press: 1-14.
Poppendieck, J. 2000. Want amid plenty: from hunger to inequality. In Hungry for profit: the agribusiness threat
to farmers, food, and the environment, edited by F. Magdoff, J.B. Foster and F.H. Buttel. New York:
Monthly Review Press: 189-202.
Winne, M. Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty. Boston, Beacon Press: 21-34.
!Due (Descriptive Inquiry Style groups only):
Field Trip Presentations
!N Farm/Production
6
OVEMBER
Read:
Campos, P., et al. (2006). "The epidemiology of overweight and obesity: public health crisis or moral
panic?" International journal of epidemiology 35(1): 55-60.
Kirkland, A. (2011). "The environmental account of obesity: a case for feminist skepticism.” Signs 36(2):
463-485.
DuPuis, E. M. (2007). "Angels and Vegetables: A Brief History of Food Advice in America.”
Gastronimica: The Journal of Food and Culture 7(2): 34-44.
Week 6 (total reading 21 pages)
!N
OVEMBER 11
Read:
Holt-Giménez, E. (2011). Food security, food justice, or food sovereignty? Crises, food movements, and
regime change. In Cultivating food justice: race, class, and sustainability. A. H. Alkon and J. Agyeman.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press: 309-330.
Due:
Complete outlines of mid-terms, compile bibliography for each essay, and bring hard copies of outlines
and bibliographies to class.
!N
OVEMBER 13:
Due:
Revise outline, annotate bibliographies, and draft 2-3 body paragraphs of one essay. Bring hard copies of
each to class.
Week 7 (total reading 43 pages)
NOVEMBER 18
Due:
Mid-term exam
Due (Descriptive Inquiry Style groups only):
Processing/Distribution Field Trip Presentations
!N
OVEMBER 20
Read:
Holt-Giménez , E. (2006). Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America's Farmer to Farmer
Movement for Sustainable Agriculture. Oakland, Food First Books: Chapter 3 “Tales from
Campesino a Campesino” 43-76.
!4
Week 8 (total reading 33 pages)
!N
OVEMBER 25
Read:
Lyson, T. A. (2004). Civic agriculture: reconnecting farm, food, and community. Medford,
Massachusetts, Tufts University Press: 61-91.
!N
OVEMBER 27 | THANKSGIVING
No reading assigned.
!Week 9 (total reading 59 pages)
!D
2
ECEMBER
Read:
Patel, R. (2011). Survival Pending Revolution: What the Black Panther Party Can Teach the U.S. Food
Movement. Food Movements Unite! E. Holt-Gimenez. Oakland, Food First Books: 115-135.
White, M. M. (2011). "D-Town farm: African American resistance to food insecurity and the
transformation of Detroit." Environmental Practice 13(4): 406-417.
!Due (Descriptive Inquiry Style groups only):
Field Trip Presentations
!D Consumption/Waste
4
ECEMBER
Read:
Guthman, J. (2008). "Bringing good food to others: investigating the subjects of alternative food
practice." Cultural Geographies 15(4): 431-447.
Reynolds, K. (2014). "Disparity Despite Diversity: Social Injustice in New York City's Urban Agriculture
System." Antipode: 1-17.
Week 10 (total reading 29 pages)
DECEMBER 9
Read:
Stevenson, G.W., Kathryn Ruhf, Sharon Lezberg, and Kate Clancy. 2007. Warrior, builder, and weaver
work: strategies for changing the food system. In Remaking the North American food system:
strategies for sustainability, pp. 33-62, edited by C.C. Hinrichs and T.A. Lyson. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press.
!D
11
Due (Descriptive Inquiry Style groups only):
Governance Field Trip Presentations
ECEMBER
DECEMBER 16 | FINAL EXAM, 6PM
Due: Reflective Essay
!5