School Food Politics for Social Justice, Human Rights, and Sustainability (Table 35)

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable 9:45 am

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This interdisciplinary group of school food politics’ scholars from four continents aim to spark a new field of scholarship that informs political action within the education sector related to who feeds whom, what, how, and for what purpose in schools in the US and around the world. The dialogue focuses on critical, intersectional, and decolonial approaches to school food research and policymaking with value commitments developed from a global fund of knowledge focused on justice, human rights, and sustainability. Participants share tools for critically analyzing school food systems and empirical examples to broaden the framing of research, teaching/learning, and policy making that literally feed the emancipatory potential of public education.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 1: Governance, Politics, and Intergovernmental Relations

Chair

• Sarah A. Robert, University at Buffalo - SUNY

Papers

• (De)Colonization as a Frame of Reference for Exploring the Possibilities of School Meals in Educating for Viable Futures - Irene Torres, Fundacion Octaedro; Monica Susanna Carlsson, Aarhus University

• Transforming School Food With a Feminist Politics of Care - Jennifer E. Gaddis, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Sarah A. Robert, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• School Foodscapes in Greenland and Denmark: Critical Perspectives - Dorte Ruge, UCL University College; Mitdlarak Lennert, Ilisimatusarfik University of Greenland

• Food and Philanthro-Capitalism in New Zealand Schools - Darren Powell, University of Auckland