Spring 2009 Schedule
  • Jan. 30
    • Whatmore, S. and Thorne, L. (1997). Nourishing Networks: Alternative Geographies of Food. In Globalising Food, D. Goodman and M. Watts, ed. p. 287-304
  • Feb. 13
    • Cook, I. (2008). Geographies of Food: Mixing. Progress in Human Geography, 32(6), 821-833.
    • Slocum, R. (2009). Thinking Race through Corporeal Feminist Theory: divisions and intimacies at the Minneapolis Farmers' Market. Social and Cultural Geography, 9(8), 849-869.
  • Feb. 27
    • Pudup, Mary Beth. 2008. “It takes a garden: Cultivating citizen-subjects in organized garden projects.” Geoforum 39:1228-1240
    • Jarosz, Lucy. 2008. "The city in the country: Growing alternative food networks in Metropolitan areas." Journal of Rural Studies. 24:231-244
  • March 13--Including conference call with Mike Goodman
    • Hayes-Conroy and Hayes-Conroy, Taking Back Taste
    • Mike Goodman, Towards Visceral Entanglements (forthcoming chapter)
  • April 10
    • Johnston, J. (2008). The citizen-consumer hybrid: ideological tensions and the case of Whole Foods Market. Theory and Society, 37(3), 229-270.
  • April 24--Including conference call with Julie Guthman
    • Guthman, J. (2008). Bringing good food to others: investigating the subjects of alternative food practice. Cultural Geographies, 15(4), 431-447
    • Guthman, J. (2007). Commentary on teaching food: Why I am fed up with Michael Pollan et al. Agriculture and Human Values, 24(2), 261-264. 
    • One other piece of your choice
  • May 1
    • Meeting with the agriculture group in St. Paul--pieces on multifunctional agriculture and multidisciplinary work groups