TY - JOUR AU - McMichael, Philip AU - Porter, Christine M. PY - 2018/07/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Going Public with Notes on Close Cousins, Food Sovereignty, and Dignity JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 8 IS - A SE - Food Dignity Community-led Food Justice Work DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2018.08A.015 UR - https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/fd-public SP - 207-212 AB - <p><em>Introduction:</em></p><p>In fall 2009, I taught a graduate course at Cornell University in the sociology of food and ecology. My students and I were fortunate to have food systems sociologist Harriet Friedmann participating in our seminar meetings while she was on sabbatical at Cornell. Twenty years earlier, Harriet and I had published a paper that sketched a framework char­acterizing political-economic epochs in global agri­culture since 1870. We named these epochs “food regimes” (Friedmann &amp; McMichael, 1989). Christine Porter was a student in that course. She claims it helped her put enough academic and activist pieces of the food system puzzle together to pro­pose what later became Food Dignity—a five-year action and research project about food security, sustainability, and sovereignty involving four higher education institutions and five community-based organiza­tions doing food justice work in the U.S....</p> ER -