We are comprised of faculty and students in social
science departments at the University of Minnesota. We meet regularly
to discuss each others' work and to read relevant work by outside
authors. To subscribe to our email list, please email Jerry Shannon at
shann039@umn.edu
We are hosting a monthly film series on Thursday nights throughout the academic year. This is being run in conjunction with the Bell Museum's Hungry Planet exhibition.
Our spring meetings are scheduled from 11:30-1:00 on alternate
Fridays (lunch welcome!). The exact dates are listed below. All meetings will take place at 1229 Heller Hall.
Spring 2009 schedule- Jan 29: Black farming
- Priscilla McCutcheon, “Community Food Security ‘For Us, By Us’”
- More on the Pigford case with Stephen Carpenter
- Feb. 12: The construction of “fresh” (Jerry)
- Readings from Fresh: A Perishable History by Susanne Freidberg
- Feb. 26: Affect/Affective labor (Valentine, Ursula, Tracey, Slocum)
- "Doing Shame" from Elspeth Probyn, Blush: Faces of Shame (2005, U of MN Press)
- Introduction from Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects (2007, Duke UP)
- Dowling, E. (2007). Producing the Dining Experience: Measure, Subjectivity and the Affective Worker. Ephemera, 7(1), 117-132.
- (Optional)
Weeks, K. (2007). Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 7(1), 233-49.
- (Optional) Other selections from Steward, Ordinary Affects.
- March 12 (last day before Spring Break): Reproductive labor (Tracey)
- Introduction to Feeding the Family by Marjorie DeVault
- Heidi Hartmann, "The Family as a Site of Struggle"
- Spring Break: Food studies methods workshop
- March 26: Botany and politics (Slocum)
- Selections from In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff
- Possibly include work from Gary Paul Nabhan
- April 9: Foodies (Schurman?)
- Selections from Foodies: Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Landscape by Shyon Baumann and Josee Johnston
- April 23: Post-socialist food systems (Jerry/Renata)
- Selections from Food and Everyday Life in the Post Socialist World
- Smith, J., & Jehlička, P. (2007). Stories around food, politics and change in Poland and the Czech Republic. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32(3), 395-410. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00258.x
- May 7 (last day of spring classes): Still open…
Our group annotated bibliography can be found on this page. Please note: Google Docs is a completely separate system
from our Google group--members are subscribed to each independently. If
you feel lost using Google Docs for the annotated bibliography, here's a brief guide.
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