Visualizing Agrarian Myth and Place-Based Resistance in South Central Los Angeles

Cultural Discourses of Dwelling: Investigating Environmental Communication as a Place-based Practice

“…It is these ways, including nature's ways, we can and must study. Our efforts to address urban sprawl (Cantrill, Thompson, Garrett, & Rochester, 2007), environmental sustainability (Larson, 2011), food sources (Cerulli, 2012;Opel, Johnston, & Wilk, 2010), forest conservation (Dickinson, 2011), water management (Morgan, 2003), national park management (Spence, 1999;Weaver, 1996), restorative practices and tourism management (Milstein, 2011), important counter-discourses of place (Sinter, 2011), to construct better arguments about climate change (Schweizer, Thompson, Teel, & Bruyere, 2009), or in our studies of eco-whatever, are inevitably couched in such a discourse(s), just as each is situated relative to others. Examining each matter in these ways will give each its due, while allowing us to build with the range in view.…”

It's Not Just Dinner: Meal Delivery Kits as Food Media for Food Citizens

“…However, such documentaries and other media programming can perpetuate the problem of viewing sustainable agriculture as a simplistic solution to environmental degradation and food security; that is, such food systems are not easily changeable. For example, communication scholars have extensively analyzed documentary films such as The Garden, which depicts community gardening and environmental and social justice in Los Angeles, contending that films like The Garden can provide useful fodder for resistance and discussion of food systems (Foust, 2011;LeGreco and Leonard, 2011;Retzinger, 2011;Singer, 2011). Particularly, Foust argues that "food demonstrates the impossibility of reducing material rhetoric to the logic of materiality or symbolicity, for food is never freed from materiality.…”