Thursday, May 19, 2016
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In 2012 Mayor Kevin Johnson dubbed Sacramento the “Farm-to-Fork Capital,” thereby kicking off an intense branding campaign designed to revamp the image of the city (often referred to with the pejorative “cow-town” designation) and surrounding region to take advantage of its deep agricultural and viticulture roots and growing urban foodie culture.
Through a critical read of the images associated with the 2015 media campaign, I consider how this particular farm-to-fork movement is more likely to cast people of color, working class, and poor peoples in the roles of recipients of aid (to mitigate hunger, limited access to fresh foods, and “food deserts”) rather than agents of change and cultural workers in their own right. This is a work-in-progress which begins with the question: “Whose farm? Which fork?”
FEATURING
Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón
Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón is an Associate Professor with research
and writing interests in Black women’s resistance throughout the African Diaspora. She is an emergent scholar of critical food studies with a particular focus on race and gendered representations of Black women and food. Her work has appeared in the journals Gastronomica: the Journal of Critical Food Studies and BOOM: A Journal of CaliforniaNettles-Barcelón is also the Social Science Book Review Editor for the journal “Food and Foodways: Explorations in the history and culture of human nourishment” (Routledge).
Co-Sponsored by:
UCI Community Outreach Partnership Center
UCI School of Social Ecology
UCI Planning, Policy and Design