Rachel Slocum
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InterestsHuman Geography
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"Properly, with love, from scratch": Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
Radical History Review. 01/2011; 2011(110):178-191.
What to eat is of great concern to the U.S. public; it is the subject of social organizing at many scales and the focus of significant academic discussion. This article analyzes Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (JOFR), a much-discussed reality show that aired in 2010 in the United States, in which... [more] What to eat is of great concern to the U.S. public; it is the subject of social organizing at many scales and the focus of significant academic discussion. This article analyzes Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (JOFR), a much-discussed reality show that aired in 2010 in the United States, in which English celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, well known in the United Kingdom for directing government and public attention to school lunch, brought his campaign to promote fresh-cooked food to Huntington, West Virginia. We recognize the capacity of JOFR to encourage people to act on behalf of their and their loved ones' health, as well as to become engaged politically to change the food system, and in this article, we provide a sympathetic critique of themes and methods emphasized by Oliver in his efforts to spark a food revolution. Specifically, our critique points to JOFR's similarity to past food reform efforts; the shaming of the overweight; the focus on a particular form of whiteness that masks the work of race, food, and health; the show's arbitrary designation of authentic food; and JOFR's promotion of heroic, antagonistic change. A food revolution, we argue, needs to engage with structural aspects of the food system through collective action.
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Biopolitics and racial becoming through local food
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC; 01/2010
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The embodied politics of pain in US anti-racism
Acme, An International E Journal for Critical Geographies. 01/2009; 8(1):18-45.
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Local food and diversity in public space: a study of the perceptions and practices of Minneapolis Farmers’ Market customers
CURA Reporter. 01/2009; 39(June):40-50.
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Author meets critics: a set of reviews and response for Arun Saldanha's Psychedelic White
Social & Cultural Geography. 01/2009; 10(4):499-517.
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Thinking race through corporeal feminist theory: divisions and intimacies at the Minneapolis Farmers’ Market
Social & Cultural Geography. 01/2008; 9(8):849-869.
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Polar bears and energy-efficient light bulbs: strategies to bring climate change home
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 01/2004; 22(3):413-438.
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Consumer citizens and the Cities for Climate Protection campaign
Pion Ltd, London, Environment and Planning A. 01/2004; 36(5):763-782.
The Cities for Climate Protection campaign, an effort to lower greenhouse-gas emissions at the city scale, operates within the neoliberal state. Two features characterize the interaction of the state and the public via this campaign: a lack of public involvement, and the construction of the citizen ... [more] The Cities for Climate Protection campaign, an effort to lower greenhouse-gas emissions at the city scale, operates within the neoliberal state. Two features characterize the interaction of the state and the public via this campaign: a lack of public involvement, and the construction of the citizen as a passive consumer. The author emphasizes a tension that exists between two readings of the consumer citizen: the pliable figure who listens to neoliberal bottom-line arguments, and the political economic actor who identifies not with consumerism but with political change. Citizens thus cannot be wholly embodied by constructions such as the consumer, and consumerist activism has potential. Citizens, though often interpellated as consumers, can position themselves as reasoning publics who see climate change, their cities, and themselves in relational perspective. The author enlists Foucauldian and deliberative-democracy theory to explore the making of citizens through the Cities for Climate Protection campaign.
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Hungry polar bears and energy efficient lightbulbs: toward a critical climate politics
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles; 01/2002
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Repositioning women on the landscape of the Office du Niger, Mali /
Thesis (M.A.)--Clark University, 1996. Typewritten manuscript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-167).
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