Rachel Slocum

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• "Properly, with love, from scratch": Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

  Authors: Rachel Slocum, Jerry Shannon, Kirsten Valentine Cadieux, Matthew Beckman

  Radical History Review. 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 FoodWhat 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.

• Race in the study of food

  Authors: Rachel Slocum

  Progress in Human Geography.

• Biopolitics and racial becoming through local food

  Authors: Rachel Slocum

  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers;

• Author meets critics: a set of reviews and response for Arun Saldanha's Psychedelic White

  Authors: Rachel Slocum, Susan J. Smith

  Social & Cultural Geography. 10(4):499-517.

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• The embodied politics of pain in US anti-racism

  Authors: Rachel Slocum

  Acme, An International E Journal for Critical Geographies. 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

  Authors: Rachel Slocum, Elisabeth Ellsworth, Sandrine Zerbib, Arun Saldanha

  CURA Reporter. 39(June):40-50.

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• Introduction

  Authors: Rachel Slocum, Susan J Smith

  Social & Cultural Geography. 10(4):499-501.

• Thinking race through corporeal feminist theory: divisions and intimacies at the Minneapolis Farmers’ Market

  Authors: Rachel Slocum

  Social & Cultural Geography. 9(8):849-869.

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• Whiteness, space and alternative food practice

  Authors: Rachel Slocum

  Geoforum. 38(3):520-533.

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• Anti-racist practice and the work of community food organizations

  Authors: Rachel Slocum

  Antipode. 38(2):327-349.

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• Consumer citizens and the Cities for Climate Protection campaign

  Authors: Rachel Slocum

  Pion Ltd, London, Environment and Planning A. 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 stateThe 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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• Polar bears and energy-efficient light bulbs: strategies to bring climate change home

  Authors: Rachel Slocum

  Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 22(3):413-438.

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• Hungry polar bears and energy efficient lightbulbs: toward a critical climate politics

  Authors: Rachel Slocum

  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers;

• Power, Process and Participation: Tools for Change

  Authors: Rachel Slocum, Lori Wichhart, Dianne Rocheleau, Thomas-Slayter Barbara

  Intermediate Technology Publications.

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• Repositioning women on the landscape of the Office du Niger, Mali /

  Authors: Rachel B. Slocum

  Thesis (M.A.)--Clark University, 1996. Typewritten manuscript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-167).