Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies

Eileen E. Schell is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence in the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition at Syracuse University.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Engaging Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies in Rhetoric and Writing Studies1. Locating the “Crisis” Rhetorics and Literacies around Food and Farming2. Who Is In and Who is Out? Alternative Food Networks, Conscious Eater Literacies, and the Rhetorics of Local Food3. Racialized Rhetorics of Food Politics: Black Farmers, the Case of Shirley Sherrod, and Struggle for Land Equity and Access4. Gardening for Victory: The Rhetorics and Literacies of Community Gardening5. Toward Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies in Precarious TimesReferencesIndexAbout the Author

In her latest book Food Justice Literacies and Rhetorics, Professor Eileen Schell’s intersectional approach to food justice applies incisive rhetorical and rich historical analysis to carefully chosen case studies, thereby reimagining the roles of writing and rhetoric scholars in food studies and offering new directions for scholarship, pedagogy, and everyday practices. In these ways, Schell provides an important argument about the significance of critical agricultural literacies to illuminate more accurate and representative histories of food justice and to illustrate ways forward to more just and inclusive food systems.