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Earth to Tables Legacies
eBook - Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures
ISBN/EAN: 9781538123508
Umbreit-Nr.: 8122982
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 256 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 16.08.2022
Auflage: 1/2022
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><span>Climate crises, a global pandemic, farmer protests, diet-related diseasesall of these are telling us that the industrial food system threatens our health and the health of the planet and deepens systemic inequities, racism, and poverty. Using food as an entry to key issuessuch as Indigenous-settler relations and anti-racism in the food movement</span><span> Earth to Tables Legacies: Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures</span><span> tells the stories of food activists from the Americasyoung and old, rural and urban, Indigenous and settlerwho share a vision for food justice and food sovereignty, from earth to tables.</span></p><p><span>This visually stunning, full-color multimedia book generates rich conversations about food sovereignty through eleven photo essays and links to ten videos. Commentaries on each essay broaden the conversations with the experiences and perspectives of eighteen scholars and activistsboth Indigenous and settlerfrom Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Facilitators guides offer creative ways to engage students and activists in critical discussions about these issues with links to other resourcestext-based and visual, print and online.</span></p><p><span>Visit the Earth to Tables website<a href="https://earthtotables.org/"><span>here</span></a></span><span>.</span></p>
- Kurztext
- <p><span>This visually stunning multimedia book generates conversations about food sovereignty through photo essays and online videos. Using food as an entry to key issuessuch as Indigenous-settler relations and anti-racismthese audiovisual, educational resources feature food activists who strive for food justice and sovereignty, from earth to tables.</span></p>
- Autorenportrait
- <p><span>Deborah Barndt</span><span> is professor emerita in the faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto. A social justice activist, artist, and popular educator, her photographs have been published and exhibited widely, and her books include</span><span>Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail</span><span> and edited volumes</span><span>VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas, Wild Fire: Art as Activism</span><span>, and</span><span>Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain</span><span>(deborahbarndt.com).</span></p><p><span>Lauren E. Baker</span><span>has more than twenty years of experience working on food systems issues with the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, the Toronto Food Policy Council, Sustain Ontario, and the Peoples Food Institute. With a PhD on maize social movements in Mexico, she has taught at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. Her books include</span><span>Balancing the Scales: True Cost Accounting for Food</span><span>and</span><span>Corn Meets Maize</span><span>(laurenbaker.ca).</span></p><p><span>Alexandra Gelis</span><span>is a Colombian-Venezuelan-Canadian artist based in Toronto who works collaboratively with communities around the globe. Her widely exhibited installations are featured in a recent book,</span><span>Alexandra Gelis: Seeds.</span><span>She is completing her PhD at York University on the relationship between people, plants, and power in the context of colonization and globalization, culminating in a major multimedia exhibit:</span><span>Living-With : Migrant Relations</span><span>(<a href="https://www.alexandragelis.com/"><span>https://www.alexandragelis.com/</span></a></span><span>).</span></p>