Organizing Eating

Sarah E. Dempsey is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching engages feminist theory, critical, cultural studies, and organization studies to explore relationships between communication, corporate power, labor, and collective organizing. She has published research in outlets like Food, Culture & Society, Management Communication Quarterly, Children’s Geographies, and Organization, as well as in the edited collection Food & Place: A Critical Introduction.

1. Organizing Eating: Food, Communication, and Power Sarah E. Dempsey 2. Hunger, Survivance, and Reparative Food Policy: A Racial Analysis of the "Right to Food" Adam Pine and Rebecca de Souza 3. "The Rules For the Food System We All Eat By": How the U.S. Farm Bill (Re)Structures Capitalist Food Politics Kathleen Hunt 4. Contesting Institutional Narratives and Core Assumptions about Detroit’s Mass Water Shutoffs: Collaborative Writing for Water Justice Rahul Mitra, Nadia Gaber, Roslyn Bouier and Shea Howell 5. Unemployment & Food (In)security: (Un)just Governance in Unemployment Organizations Angela N. Gist-Mackey and Debbie S. Dougherty 6. Communicative Considerations for Urban Food Governance: Toward Food Privilege or Food Justice in Denver, Colorado Constance Gordon 7. Food Chain Workers Challenging the Corporate Colonization of Food System Communication Sarah E. Dempsey 8. Addressing Health Inequalities through Worker and Consumer Cooperatives: Co-op Cincy’s Organizing for Food Justice Heather M. Zoller 9. Organizing Tensions in Community Supported Agriculture Megan Schraedley 10. Building Collaborative Empowerment through Regionally Attentive Organizing: A Comparative Case Study of Place-Making Within Two Appalachia Food Nonprofits Sonia R. Ivancic and Kristen E. Okamoto 11. Building Food Policy and Communication Infrastructure Beyond the Critique Marianne LeGreco