The latest Environment and Society featured article is now available! This month’s article, “Mapping the Food Movement: Addressing Inequality and Neoliberalism,” comes from Volume 2 (2011). Teresa Marie Mares and Alison Hope Alkon bring together academic literature tracing contemporary social movements centered on food, unpacking the discourses of local food, community food security, food justice, and food sovereignty.
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TERESA MARIE MARES is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont and is affiliate faculty with the graduate program in Food Systems. She received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Washington in sociocultural anthropology. She is currently studying food access issues among Latino/a farmworkers in Vermont.
ALISON HOPE ALKON is assistant professor of sociology at the University of the Pacific. Her research examines food systems from an environmental justice perspective, focusing on issues of food access, racial identity formation, and inequality. She also uses efforts to create sustainable local food systems as a lens through which to understand the green economy more broadly. She is co-editor of Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability (2011).