Food Insecurity and Social Inequality

Readings

• Required: 1) A Land Not Forgotten: Indigenous Food Security & Land-‐Based Practices in Northern Ontario, (2017) Edited by Michael A. Robidoux and Courtney W. Mason.
• Required: 2) Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems, (2011) Edited by Hannah Wittman, Annette Aurélie Desmarais & Nettie Wiebe.
• Required: How the class is organized:
• Optional: If you have questions, at any time during this course
• Optional: LEARNING ACCOMODATIONS: Lakehead University is committed to achieving full
• 1. Lappe, F. M., & Collins, J. (2015) World Hunger: Ten Myths. Food First Backgrounder Myths.pdf
• 1. bell hooks (1994). Engaged Pedagogy, in Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, London, New York: Routledge, pgs. 13-‐22. (on D2L)
• 2. Tarasuk, V. & Dachner, N. (2017). Origins and Consequences of and Responses to Food Insecurity in Canada, in Critical Perspectives in Food Studies, pgs. 221-‐236.
• 3. Watson, A. (2013). Groundswell: A Guide to building Food Security in Rural Communities. CH 2: Rural Communities and CH 3: Why is Food Security Important, pgs. 5-‐
• 2. CH 6 Morrison, D. (2011). Indigenous Food Sovereignty: A Model for Social Learning, in Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems, pgs. 97-‐113.
• 3. McInyre, L. (2003). Food Security: More than a Determinant of Health, Policy Options, March 2003, 46-‐51. (On D2L)
• 1. CH 8. Engler-‐Stringer, R. (2011). Community Nutrition Practice and Research: Integrating a Food Sovereignty Approach, in Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems, pgs. 134-‐150.
• 2. CH 9. Hansen, Y. (2011). Growing Community: Community Gardens as a Local Practice of Food Sovereignty, in Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems, pgs. 151-‐168.
• 1. The Thunder Bay and Area Food Strategy: Connecting Food and Community (2014) (On D2L)
• *Film: Saxburg, K. (2012). Northern Grown: How is Thunder Bay Feeding Itself? Food Security Research Network, (30 min)