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This is a collection of thirteen new philosophical essays exploring the inequities in our contemporary food system. The book addresses topics including food and property, food insecurity, food deserts, food sovereignty, the gendered aspects of food injustice, food and race, and locavorism.
List of contents
Acknowledgements / Introduction: J.M. Dieterle / Part I: Food Access / Chapter 1: J. Michael Scoville, "Framing Food Justice" / Chapter 2: Stephen Minister, "Food, Hunger, and Property" / Chapter 3: J.M. Dieterle, "Food Deserts and Lockean Property" / Chapter 4: Jennifer Szende, "Food Deserts, Justice, and the Distributive Paradigm" / Part II: Food Systems / Chapter 5: Ian Werkheiser, Shakara Tyler, and Paul Thompson, " Food Sovereignty: Two Conceptions of Food Justice" / Chapter 6: Mark Navin, "Food Sovereignty and Gender Justice: The Case of La Vía Campesina" / Chapter 7: Steve Tammelleo, "Food Policy, Mexican Migration, and Collective Responsibility" / Part III: Food and Gender / Chapter 8: Lori Watson, "Food is a Feminist Issue" / Chapter 9: Nancy M. Williams, "Meat Eating and Masculinity: A Foucauldian Analysis" / Chapter 10: Margaret Crouch, "Food, Film and Gender" / Part IV: Local Food / Chapter 11: Nancy E. Snow, "'Food Virtue': Can We Make Virtuous Food Choices?" / Chapter 12: Liz Goodnick, "Limits on Locavorism" / About the Authors / Bibliography
About the author
J.M. Dieterle is Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University. She has published articles in Public Affairs Quarterly, Bioethics, Environmental Ethics, Philosophia Mathematica and Erkenntnis.
Margaret Crouch, Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University; J.M. Dieterle, Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University; Liz Goodnick, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Stephen Minister, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Augustana College; Mark Navin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Oakland University;; J. Michael Scoville, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University; Nancy E. Snow, Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing, University of Oklahoma; Jennifer Szende, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l'Université de Montreal; Steve Tammalleo, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of San Diego; Paul B. Thompson, WK Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Michigan State University; Shakara Tyler, Graduate Student, Michigan State University; Lori Watson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of San Diego; Nancy Williams, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wofford College; Ian Werkheiser, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Summary
This is a collection of thirteen new philosophical essays exploring the inequities in our contemporary food system. The book addresses topics including food and property, food insecurity, food deserts, food sovereignty, the gendered aspects of food injustice, food and race, and locavorism.
