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 (with call in by the author)

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 Stewart, Ordinary Affects.

March 12: 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)

• "Memory Dishes" and "The Africanization of Plantation Food Systems" from In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff
• Clark, N. (2002). "The Demon Seed: Bioinvasion as the Unsettling of Environmental Cosmopolitanism" Theory, Culture, and Society, 19(1-2), 101-125.

April 9: Foodies (Schurman/Cadieux)

• Introduction and Conclusion from Foodies: Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Landscape by Shyon Baumann and Josee Johnston

[Talk] April 21: Flavors of Health and Remembrance: Practice and politics of wild vegetable gathering by Hmong Americans in the Upper Midwest @ Nolte Library; Marla Emery, Research Geographer with the USDA

April 23: Post-socialist food systems (Jerry/Renata)

• Selections from Food and Everyday Life in the Post Socialist World

May 7 (last day of spring classes): Planning meeting