Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies

Eileen E. Schell is professor of writing and rhetoric, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith professor of teaching excellence, and faculty affiliate in women’s and gender studies at Syracuse University.Dianna Winslow is assistant director and writing instruction specialist for the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo.Pritisha Shrestha is a Ph.D. candidate in the Composition and Cultural and Rhetoric (CCR) program at Syracuse University.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Framing Food Justice and Literacies for Rhetoric and Writing Studies,Eileen E. Schell and Dianna WinslowSection IChapter 1: Reclaiming Forgotten Literacies: Agency through Food Literacy,Nabila HijaziChapter 2: Dreaming of Sustainable Futures and Gastronomic Pasts: Cultural Heritage andthe Rhetorical Value of Food,Ellen PlattsChapter 3: Flatbush Eats: Lessons from a Community History and Writing Project,Deborah MutnickChapter 4: Smell of the Other: Race, Ethnicity, and Fear of One’s Own Cooking Odors, Bibhushana Poudyal and Mala RaiSection IIChapter 5: Seeds of the Diaspora: Using Creative Writing to Explore Critical Food Literacies with Youth of Color,OreOluwa BadakiChapter 6: Rekindling Hope, Building Resilience: New Agrarian Literacies on the Llano Estacado,Callie F. KostelichChapter 7: Once You Sell Us on the Service We Can Render: Agricultural Public Relations, Feminist Food Literacies, and the Rhetorical Power of Women in

“Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies represents the next stage in the continued development and engagement of writing and rhetoric scholars with food systems and food justice. As in other key collections from our field, this book shares the engaged work of researchers and teachers with their communities, specifically their food communities. Contributors illustrate the field’s unique ability to connect rhetorical theories with literacy practices in local contexts; in this case, such connections provide a clearer view of the state of food justice globally and locally, as well as how we might engage in and impact food justice work.”