Cultures of Care: A Critical Food Systems Agenda for Environmental Communication

ABSTRACT

Food-related communication research provides a lens for interrogating environmental discourses that neglect questions of different, power, privilege. In this essay Alana Mann presents a critical food systems agenda for environmental communication that foregrounds the voices and perspectives of those most affected by food injustices. She highlights the role of ethnoterritorial social movements that not only contest the appropriation of land and productive resources but also reproduce an ethics of care for all species and the land itself. The essay concludes with examples of contemporary food initiatives that draw on these epistemological foundations to enable the meaningful participation, inclusion, and agency of those marginalized in our food economies.

KEYWORDS:

• ethics of care
• food systems
• environmental communication
• food sovereignty
• social movements

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