Food Sharing, Graduate Education, and Being in the 21st Century Academy

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 3:45 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Mapping Spatial Injustice: Educational and Food Access

Abstract

This collaborative autoethnographic study seeks to understand the relationship between food and the academy. Current discussions about food in the academy of the 21st century describe the number of students who experience food insecurity or the limited availability of and/or access to acquiring nutritious food. However, less discussion has been given to how, even for individuals who experience food security, academic life—steeped in capitalistic norms of exploitation and other systems of oppression (e.g., racism)—neglects food’s importance as a necessity to learn and function. Findings have implications for faculty and practitioners committed to interrogating how the oppressive culture of the 21st century negatively impacts graduate students and their ability to maintain humane ways of being.

Authors

• Michael W. Moses, University of California - Riverside

• Re'Nyqua Farrington, University of California - Riverside

• Katrya Txay Ly, University of California - Riverside

• Edwin Leonidas Rivera Castellanos, University of California - Riverside