4: Fostering Food Justice in Academia and Beyond

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31 Jul 2024
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46–64
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https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529226683.ch004
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This chapter mobilizes feminist action research together with Fraser’s three dimensions of social justice (economic, socio-cultural and political) to navigate (food) injustices across different scales in and beyond academia. It expands the framework by incorporating ethics of care to focus on the micro-dimension of the day-to-day research activities. Applying a care-full participative justice lens brings to the fore the mundane, messy practices, which are explored alongside the ‘spectacular’ decisions about recruitment of participants, the choice of methods or the questions of dissemination. It advocates a justice approach in academia as a humble way of being and performing everyday more-than-research decisions, rather than disconnected, disengaged pieces of research activities and writing.

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