Bristol University Press
4 Radical Food Intersections: Pandemic Shocks, Gentrification Mutation, Essential Labour, and the Evolution of Struggle
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Abstract
This chapter uses a radical food geographies praxis to think through the relationship between food and housing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. We first reflect on previous approaches that use food as a lens to understand racialized and classed processes of gentrification and displacement. We use this discussion to suggest that new shocks, like a pandemic, reveal the pressing need to trace how ongoing systems of oppression mutate, producing new and altered intersections for radical food interventions. The multiscalar nature of the connections between housing and food requires both a structural account of how these basic needs are constituted through different systems of oppression and the place-based and lived conditions marginalized people encounter. Attention to these patterns and particularities reveals the interstitial spaces where individuals, communities, social movements, and institutions undertake diverse actions to reimagine and reconstitute our relationships to food and housing.
Abstract
This chapter uses a radical food geographies praxis to think through the relationship between food and housing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. We first reflect on previous approaches that use food as a lens to understand racialized and classed processes of gentrification and displacement. We use this discussion to suggest that new shocks, like a pandemic, reveal the pressing need to trace how ongoing systems of oppression mutate, producing new and altered intersections for radical food interventions. The multiscalar nature of the connections between housing and food requires both a structural account of how these basic needs are constituted through different systems of oppression and the place-based and lived conditions marginalized people encounter. Attention to these patterns and particularities reveals the interstitial spaces where individuals, communities, social movements, and institutions undertake diverse actions to reimagine and reconstitute our relationships to food and housing.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Artist Statement vi
- Contents vii
- List of Figures and Tables ix
- Notes on Contributors xi
- Acknowledgements xviii
- Foreword xix
- Introduction 1
- Growing a Radical Food Geographies Praxis 17
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Scale
- Fostering Racial Justice via Values-Based Food Procurement in the Good Food Buffalo Coalition 37
- With Pots and Pens to Parliament: Understanding and Responding to Crises through a Critical Feminist Lens in Cape Town, South Africa 53
- Radical Food Intersections: Pandemic Shocks, Gentrification Mutation, Essential Labour, and the Evolution of Struggle 71
- Racialized Migrant Labour in Organic Agriculture in Canada: Blind Spots and Barriers to Justice 86
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Spatial Imaginaries
- Radical and Intersectional Food Systems in the Context of Multiple Crises: The Case of Ollas Comunes in Chile 105
- Radical Legal Geographies of the Food Desert Spatial Imaginary 120
- Consuming Chinatown: Gentrifying through Taste and Design 136
- Developing Black Urban Agrarianism 154
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Human and More-than-Human Relations
- Beyond ‘Good Intentions’: Fostering Meaningful Indigenous–Settler Relationships to Support Indigenous Food Sovereignty 171
- Reshaping Collective Dreams for a Just Food Future through Research and Activism in Western Avadh, India 187
- Food-Making in the Sisterhoods of Bourj Albarajenah Refugee Camp: Towards Radical Food Geographies of Displacement 206
- The Possibilities of Geopoetics for Growing Radical Food Geographies and Rooting Responsibilities on Indigenous Lands 223
- Radical Food Geographies Un/Settlings: The Weaponization of Food and its Discontents in Occupied Palestine and the Ch’orti’ Maya East 244
- Epilogue 261
- Index 266
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Artist Statement vi
- Contents vii
- List of Figures and Tables ix
- Notes on Contributors xi
- Acknowledgements xviii
- Foreword xix
- Introduction 1
- Growing a Radical Food Geographies Praxis 17
-
Scale
- Fostering Racial Justice via Values-Based Food Procurement in the Good Food Buffalo Coalition 37
- With Pots and Pens to Parliament: Understanding and Responding to Crises through a Critical Feminist Lens in Cape Town, South Africa 53
- Radical Food Intersections: Pandemic Shocks, Gentrification Mutation, Essential Labour, and the Evolution of Struggle 71
- Racialized Migrant Labour in Organic Agriculture in Canada: Blind Spots and Barriers to Justice 86
-
Spatial Imaginaries
- Radical and Intersectional Food Systems in the Context of Multiple Crises: The Case of Ollas Comunes in Chile 105
- Radical Legal Geographies of the Food Desert Spatial Imaginary 120
- Consuming Chinatown: Gentrifying through Taste and Design 136
- Developing Black Urban Agrarianism 154
-
Human and More-than-Human Relations
- Beyond ‘Good Intentions’: Fostering Meaningful Indigenous–Settler Relationships to Support Indigenous Food Sovereignty 171
- Reshaping Collective Dreams for a Just Food Future through Research and Activism in Western Avadh, India 187
- Food-Making in the Sisterhoods of Bourj Albarajenah Refugee Camp: Towards Radical Food Geographies of Displacement 206
- The Possibilities of Geopoetics for Growing Radical Food Geographies and Rooting Responsibilities on Indigenous Lands 223
- Radical Food Geographies Un/Settlings: The Weaponization of Food and its Discontents in Occupied Palestine and the Ch’orti’ Maya East 244
- Epilogue 261
- Index 266
