Doing Nutrition Differently

Allison Hayes-Conroy received her PhD in geography from Clark University and her MA in geography from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She is currently an assistant professor in the department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. She has authored two books on the culture and politics of food and agriculture, as well a number of papers on the visceral politics of food. Her current research centers on food security in Medellin, Colombia. Jessica Hayes-Conroy received her PhD in geography and women’s studies from Penn State University and her MA in geography from the University of Vermont. She recently served a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Studies and Women’s Studies at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. She is currently an assistant professor of Women’s Studies at Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges. She has authored papers on alternative food, visceral geography, and political ecology. Her current research centers on critical perspectives of nutrition intervention.

Introduction; 1: Food Justice and Nutrition: A Conversation with Navina Khanna and Hank Herrera; 2: Our Plates are Full: Black Women and the Weight of Being Strong; 3: Other Women's Gardens: Radical Homemaking and Public Performance of the Politics of Feeding; 4: Ancient Dietary Wisdom for Tomorrow's Children; 5: Nutritional and Cultural Transitions in Alaska Native Food Systems: Legacies of Colonialism, Contested Innovation, and Rural-Urban Linkages; 6: Counseling the Whole Person; 7: Doing Veganism Differently: Racialized Trauma and the Personal Journey Towards Vegan Healing; 8: Traditional Knowledge and the Other in Alternative Dietary Advice; 9: Feminist Nutrition: Difference, Decolonization, and Dietary Change; 10: Nutrition is . . .; 11: Another Way of Doing Health: Lessons from the Zapatista Autonomous Communities in Chiapas, Mexico; 12: Food, Community and Power from a Historical Perspective: Keys to Understanding Death by 'Lethargy' in Santa Maria del Antigua del Darien 1; 13: The Nutricentric Consumer; 14: Should we Fix Food Deserts?: The Politics and Practice of Mapping Food Access; 15: Mobilizing Caring Citizenship and Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution; Concluding Questions