Soc 579 Food, Justice, and Social Movements

This seminar examines growing social movements around food and agriculture. Includes theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding historical and current dynamics in the global food and agriculture system, and debates over land grabs, food price crises, hunger, and the role of biotechnology, agribusiness, and low-input peasant agriculture. Case studies examine social movements around land and food in the global South and North. Concludes with alternative models and emerging paradigms, including food sovereignty and food justice.