“…In addition to highlighting efforts to overcome racial inequality, researchers have repeatedly critiqued food movement activists and academics for overlooking the role of exclusionary whiteness within the movement itself (Guthman 2008a, Slocum 2011, Alkon and McCullen 2011, Passidomo 2013, Anguelovski 2015, Ramirez 2015, Bradley and Herrera 2016. To this end, researchers have also documented cases where alternative food initiatives-especially farmers markets and community gardens-have fallen short of achieving social justice goals because of their failure to engage meaningfully with racial inequality and legacies of institutional oppression (Alkon and Mares 2011, Kato 2013, Hoover 2013, Passidomo 2014, Reynolds 2015.…”
“…In addition to highlighting efforts to overcome racial inequality, researchers have repeatedly critiqued food movement activists and academics for overlooking the role of exclusionary whiteness within the movement itself (Guthman 2008a, Slocum 2011, Alkon and McCullen 2011, Passidomo 2013, Anguelovski 2015, Ramirez 2015, Bradley and Herrera 2016. To this end, researchers have also documented cases where alternative food initiatives-especially farmers markets and community gardens-have fallen short of achieving social justice goals because of their failure to engage meaningfully with racial inequality and legacies of institutional oppression (Alkon and Mares 2011, Kato 2013, Hoover 2013, Passidomo 2014, Reynolds 2015.…”
“…A number of works contribute thinking in this direction. For example, in her recent work, Passidomo (:10, quoting Purcell 2002:103) connects food sovereignty with claims for the right to the city: Lefebvre's “right to the city” … reframes the arena of decision‐making in cities to enfranchise inhabitants to produce urban space that meets their own needs … Appropriation articulates the right of citadins to “physically access, occupy, and use” urban space, and to produce urban space “so that it meets the needs of inhabitants”.…”
Section: Heuristics Of Urban Food Justice: Constructing Deconstructimentioning
Recent literature has pointed to the role of urban agriculture in selfempowerment and learning, and in constituting ways to achieve food justice. Building on this work the paper looks at the potential and constraints for overcoming the residual and contingent status of urban agriculture. The first part of the paper aims to expand traditional class/race/ethnicity discussions and to reflect on global, cultural, procedural, capability, distributional and socio-environmental forms of injustice that unfold in the different stages of urban food production. The second part reflects on how to bring forward food justice and build a politics of engagement, capability and empowerment. Three interlinked strategies for action are presented: (1) enhancing the reflexivity and cohesion of the urban food movement by articulating a challenge to neoliberal urbanism; (2) converging urban and agrarian food justice struggles by shaping urban agroecology; and (3) regaining control over social reproduction by engaging with food commoning.
“…Alternative food networks, such as communitysupported agriculture (CSAs), co-operatives, and farmers markets, aim to improve food access, typically in urban, especially inner city, areas (Lambert-Pennington and Hicks 2016). Despite the best of intentions to increase the availability of wholesome locally grown food for all (Larsen and Gilliland 2009), these entities have been documented to be exclusionary on the basis of ethnicity and income (Lambert-Pennington and Hicks 2016; also see Anguelovski 2014;Guthman 2008;Passidomo 2014;Slocum 2007;Slocum and Cadieux 2015). Ample concern has been registered over the degree to which local food movements in general, and farmers markets in particular, are privileged white middle-class spaces that exclude Blacks, immigrants, and other minorities (Alkon and McCullen 2011;Pilgeram 2012;Ruelas et al 2012;Slocum 2007Slocum , 2008, and the resistance by some to acknowledging this (Lambert-Pennington and Hicks 2016).…”
Section: Ethnicity and Class Distance And Social Spacementioning
Farmers markets are inextricably tied to local politics, culture, and individual feelings and behaviors about food and community. Just as the farmers market can be a site for community integration and bonding, it can also be a site of contention–especially when long‐standing traditions are threatened. When city planners in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, decided to relocate the modest but long‐established farmers market to a new indoor facility along the revitalized Black Warrior Riverfront, vendors and their clients rebelled, worried that a new facility would cater only to upscale shoppers. Ethnographic interviews with all key players were conducted to determine the values and needs of each interest group, with the hopes of reaching an optimal solution to the problem of supplying fresh fruits and vegetables to all citizens. This article features an analysis of points of convergence and divergence among farmer and customer opinions and presents the epilogue to this drawn‐out conflict.
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