PANEL 1 / FOOD JUSTICE
CONVENORS: MICHELANGELO BESTAZZI, SARA MADERA GOMEZ
All inquiries about the panel should be sent to
[email protected] and [email protected].
In recent decades, scholars have shown how inequalities are produced and resisted through food systems: from food deserts and austerity-driven food aid, to corporate concentration in seed markets, to the politics of obesity, farmworkers’ rights, antimicrobial resistance, land grabbing, and animal agriculture. Debates on food justice illuminate who benefits from current arrangements, who bears risks and harms, and who gets to decide what counts as safe, sustainable, culturally legitimate, or ethically acceptable food.
This panel addresses food justice in a broad and inclusive sense. It welcomes theoretical contributions in food ethics, analyses of political and social initiatives aimed at transforming food systems, and work in the wider domain of food politics. We also welcome approaches that connect justice to environmental sustainability, ethical issues in husbandry and antimicrobial use, justice for non-human animals, the role of gendered and racialized labor in food systems, cultural misrepresentation and epistemic injustice, the ethics and politics of
eating and drinking spaces, and the politics of fatness and fatphobia.
We particularly encourage submissions that address underexplored or underrepresented issues and that challenge the assumption that food systems are neutral, technocratic, or culturally homogeneous. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
● Algorithms, AI, and the digital governance of agriculture and consumption
● Climate justice, sustainability, and agroecological transitions
● Cultural appropriation and epistemic injustice
● Farmworkers’ rights, migrant labor, and precarious employment
● Food deserts, food aid, and policing of bodies
● Food sovereignty, Indigenous foodways, and postcolonial perspectives
● Gastrodiplomacy and food as a tool of geopolitical power
● Hunger, malnutrition, and the right to food
● Non-anthropocentric approaches and justice for non-human species
● Politics of fatness, stigma, and public health discourse
● Structural exploitation in global food supply chains
● The ethics and politics of microbial life, fermentation, and the gut microbiota
● The food industry and new biotechnological challenges
All inquiries about the panel should be sent to
[email protected] and [email protected].
In recent decades, scholars have shown how inequalities are produced and resisted through food systems: from food deserts and austerity-driven food aid, to corporate concentration in seed markets, to the politics of obesity, farmworkers’ rights, antimicrobial resistance, land grabbing, and animal agriculture. Debates on food justice illuminate who benefits from current arrangements, who bears risks and harms, and who gets to decide what counts as safe, sustainable, culturally legitimate, or ethically acceptable food.
This panel addresses food justice in a broad and inclusive sense. It welcomes theoretical contributions in food ethics, analyses of political and social initiatives aimed at transforming food systems, and work in the wider domain of food politics. We also welcome approaches that connect justice to environmental sustainability, ethical issues in husbandry and antimicrobial use, justice for non-human animals, the role of gendered and racialized labor in food systems, cultural misrepresentation and epistemic injustice, the ethics and politics of
eating and drinking spaces, and the politics of fatness and fatphobia.
We particularly encourage submissions that address underexplored or underrepresented issues and that challenge the assumption that food systems are neutral, technocratic, or culturally homogeneous. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
● Algorithms, AI, and the digital governance of agriculture and consumption
● Climate justice, sustainability, and agroecological transitions
● Cultural appropriation and epistemic injustice
● Farmworkers’ rights, migrant labor, and precarious employment
● Food deserts, food aid, and policing of bodies
● Food sovereignty, Indigenous foodways, and postcolonial perspectives
● Gastrodiplomacy and food as a tool of geopolitical power
● Hunger, malnutrition, and the right to food
● Non-anthropocentric approaches and justice for non-human species
● Politics of fatness, stigma, and public health discourse
● Structural exploitation in global food supply chains
● The ethics and politics of microbial life, fermentation, and the gut microbiota
● The food industry and new biotechnological challenges
