ANTHR-412 Food Justice in the Mohawk Valley
Students will grapple with the inherent tension between the fact that there are people who live in the area that don’t have enough to eat and the way that all attempts to mitigate social problems are inevitably informed by certain kinds of cultural/economic/political conceptual frameworks that often remain unexamined and/or invisible. As we work our way through the course readings, the students will be asked to pair up with a local organization that is working to alleviate food-related problems in the area. As they work with the organizations, the students will be tasked with examining the successes of, and the difficulties faced by, the institutions, including the ways that people complicate any implementation of a solution.
Seminar (12)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
ANTHR-113 or by permission of instructor