World Food System 1450-2050 Class: P a 388K Venue: SRH 3.122 Fall 2015 Mondays 6-9Pm Raj Patel [email protected] Syllabus Version 2

World Food System 1450-2050 Class: P a 388K Venue: SRH 3.122 Fall 2015 Mondays 6-9Pm Raj Patel Rajpatel@Utexas.Edu Syllabus Version 2

World Food System 1450-2050 Class: P A 388K Venue: SRH 3.122 Fall 2015 Mondays 6-9pm Raj Patel [email protected] Syllabus version 2

Although we hear the term “food system” a great deal these days, not many people understand exactly what it is. If pressed, people might consider a system as that chain of exchanges that takes food from a field to your plate. But that’s not a system so much as a single thread in a very tangled web. This course begins to offer answers to we eat what we eat, how some food has become normal and other foods strange, why the world’s ecology has transformed over the past 600 years, and what it might look like in another 50 years. While we’re grounded in history, readings will draw from epidemiology, anthropology, medicine, public policy and geography, among others. We’ll use film, books and discussion to over-turn a range of misconceptions about the food system, from across the political spectrum, leaving you with the tools to be able to think systemically about the world food system. The readings will be demanding and heavy, but the rewards will be great.

Grading

Attendance without electronics 10% Responses to readings 20% Office Hour attendance 5% Two reference letter submissions 5% Class Participation 20% Policy Paper 20% TED Talk 20%

Attendance without electronics It’s tempting to take notes on your computer. Don’t. It works poorly, especially compared to writing longhand. If you wish to transcribe your handwritten notes after class, you’re free to do so. I’ll upload all PowerPoint slides to Canvas. Unless you have a specific disability-related reason to use a computer – for which I will require a written note from the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement - students may not use laptops or phones. Anyone using one will be asked to leave, and will receive an attendance score of 0% for the class. Please attend all classes. Two absences will result in a maximum 5% attendance score. More than two will result in 0%.

Responses to Readings

Each week, you are required to do three things after completing the readings: 1. Write a response to the readings and post it on Canvas. This is due by midnight on Friday before class. Responses that capture the essential argument of the selected reading, provide a thoughtful and original response, and engage with the ideas of your peers will receive a 3. Paragraphs that demonstrate you’ve done the reading but that overlook an article’s general argument or lack original engagement will receive 2s, while responses that show shaky knowledge of the reading and little effort will receive 1s. Responses should be written in a professional manner: essays with grammar, syntax, and spelling problems will not receive a 3! 2. each week, write a short response to someone else’s response. This is due by noon on Monday before class. 3. Come to class with a good discussion question. A good discussion question isn’t the sort of thing to which you can Google the answer, or answer with “yes” or “no”. It is a question that generates lengthy dialogue. Good discussion questions can sometimes be of the form “what did the author mean by x?” or “what are other explanations for y?”. It is in your interest to choose a question that’ll generate good discussion, because you and your discussion group will talk about them for at least 30 minutes.

Office Hour Attendance

Please come to at least one office hour with me this semester. Use the 15 minutes to discuss whatever you like, from your choice of policy paper to career options to anything else that seems appropriate.

Reference Letter Exercise

It's two years from now. You're applying to your dream job, you've made the shortlist, and you've been asked to provide three referees. I'm one of them. Write the reference letter that you would want me to write for you. There are two purposes for this exercise. First, I want to learn a little bit more about you, about where you hope to see yourself in two years, and what you dream of doing when you've moved on from UT. Second, I'd like you to think about what you want to take from this course that will help you in achieving that dream. Don't worry if your future job has nothing to do with food, the world system or anything else that forms the substance of this course. There are skills that you'll develop in this course - teamwork, public presentation, communication, analysis - that you'll find useful in any job. Think about how you'd like someone to appraise - and praise - your work in the future based on what you do in this course. I may actually end up using this letter, so make it plausible, compelling and specific. Also, we'll be returning to this letter at the end of the course to see if you were able to meet the goals implied in this letter, so it's a way for you to tell me what you want to get out of this course, and for me to hold you to your ambitions at the end of the semester. Before the end of the semester, I’ll ask you both to revise this letter, and to tell me what’s different between the two.

First letter due Tuesday September 8 before 11.59pm. Second letter due Friday December 4th before 11.59pm, together with a short note explaining the differences between the two.

Policy Paper By December 9, submit a 20 page double-spaced referenced paper, addressed to a real individual heading a real agency – NGO, government or corporate anywhere in the world – describing a problem in the food system and the policies you would use to address it systemically.

TED Talk At some point, you will be required to present your ideas in public. TED talks are one way to do that. On the canvas page are instructions of the kind given to prospective TED talkers. Follow them and prepare a MAXIMUM 1200 word speech on the same subject as – and possibly condensed down from - your policy paper. Submit your speech on Canvas before Nov 20th, your peers will review it (and you will review others’), and then present your final talk in class on 30th November.

How To Write

There are plenty of resources online to help you hone your writing style. Strunk & White, My Little Bag of Writing Tricks, etc. The resource under my pillow, though, is George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language. Please read it before committing your thoughts to paper.

About our room and building

For safety purposes, the exterior doors to the building will lock at 6:30. Any non-LBJ students that leave the building after 6:30pm will not be able to get back in. You won’t have access to the elevator or any other classrooms in the building. In addition, please do not prop the door of our classroom open for any reason. If an alarm goes off due to a door being propped open, it automatically triggers the police to come and investigate the situation. LBJ students are encouraged to keep their proximity ID cards close to hand. Non-LBJ students be warned. If you’re late to class, you will not be able to get in. We’ll also need to be out of the room by 9pm sharp, or alarms will sound.

Academic Integrity Students are expected to respect the LBJ School’s standards regarding academic dishonesty. You owe it to yourself, your fellow students, and the institution to maintain the highest standards of integrity and ethical behavior. A discussion of academic integrity, including definitions of plagiarism and unauthorized collaboration, as well as helpful information on citations, note taking, and paraphrasing, can be found at the Office of the Dean of Students web page (http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/acint_student.php) and the Office of Graduate Studies (Http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/ethics/transcripts/academic.html). The University has also established disciplinary procedures and penalty guidelines for academic dishonesty, especially Sec. 11.304 in Appendix C of the Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities section in UT’s General Information Catalog.

University Electronic Mail Notification Policy We will use e-mail as a means of communication with students in this course. You will be responsible for checking your e-mail regularly, recognizing that certain communications may be time-critical. The University of Texas recommends that you check e-mail daily and requires you to check at least twice per week. You are responsible for keeping the University informed of e-mail address changes. The complete text of this policy and instructions for updating your e-mail address are available at http://www.utexas.edu/its/policies/emailnotify.html.

About Canvas Check the course Canvas site regularly for class work and announcements or request that Canvas sends you a daily update. The university's IT staff occasionally schedules downtimes for the Canvas site, as noted on the Canvas login page. Scheduled downtimes are not an excuse for late work. The ITS Help Desk at 475- 9400 provides technical support for Canvas Monday - Friday, 8 am to 5 pm. http://www.utexas.edu/its/helpdesk/

Students with Disabilities Students with disabilities may request appropriate academic accommodations from the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, Services for Students with Disabilities (471-6259) or visit http://ddce.utexas.edu/disability for more information. Students with Accommodation letters should make an appointment to speak with one of us to discuss the approved accommodations.

Office Hours: I’ll be traveling a fair amount this semester but will respond to email within 72 hours. There’s rarely anything for which you will need a swifter response. In general, intelligence, wit and an email to Carl Forsberg ought to suffice.

Carl’s email address is [email protected] and his office hours are 2-4 pm on Mondays at Cafe Medici (2222 Guadalupe Street).

On the rare occasions there is something that cannot wait, do put ‘Urgent’ in the subject field. Please note: I will not reply to email on weekends.

For office hours, please click on the links below. o Office hours: Monday 9.30am-10.30pm for LBJ Students only. Monday 1.30-3.30pm for Everyone. o Office location: SRH 3.225 o Email: [email protected]

A note on reading

You’ll notice there’s a lot of reading. This is as it should be. In a class that wants to cover 560 years of history and 40 years of future forecasting across the entire planet, this is already a drastically reduced reading list from a full and proper survey course. But since you’ve chosen to do a course on the world food system from 1450- 2050, it’d be wrong of me to present you with any less reading. One of the ways I’ve tried to cut things down is to make you read my summaries of a broader field.

That said, I understand that you might not be able to do absolutely all of it every week. Let me be clear – I want you to do all of it every week. I’m just being reasonable in understanding that you occasionally might not be able to. When you can’t do it, find friends who have, and talk to them. You’ll learn something by developing the art of talking about things you haven’t read. Better yet, this class is meant to be a community in which we have each others’ backs – and that means helping each other out with the reading. You’ll need to know all required readings in order to do a good job on the weekly reading responses.

So, in summary, do the reading or talk to someone who has, and be good to one another.

All required readings will be on Canvas.

Class 1. 31-Aug Introduction

We’ll cover the syllabus, assignments, we’ll watch a short film and discuss it. I’ll end with a lecture on the long history of the world food system.

Film: HBO: Weight of the Nation

Optional (no extra credit, but fascinating nonetheless): Attend Richard Roberts’ Sept 10 talk on “Golden Rice: GMOs and the Battle to End Hunger”, 1-2pm Room 207 San Jacinto Hall. Decide for yourselves whether opposing golden rice is a crime against humanity.

Class 2. 14-Sep Inventing Tastes One of the most interesting things that the modern food system has invented is: you. This week, we’ll ask what sorts of foods capitalism has encouraged us to eat, and how our tastes, and our selves, have been shaped.

Film: The Corporation (Child Marketing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi63rXnuWbw

Required for all Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. 1985. Sweetness and power : the place of sugar in modern history. New York ; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. Ch 3 pp74-150 Tipton-Martin, Toni. 2015. The Jemima code : two centuries of African Cookbooks. Austin: University of Texas Press. Introduction pp1-21 Patel, Raj. 2007. Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System. London: Portobello Books. CH 9, pp253-291 Kimura, Aya H., Charlotte Biltekoff, Jessica Mudry, and Jessica Hayes-Conroy. 2014. "Nutrition as a Project." Gastronomica 14 (3):34-45. doi: 10.1525/gfc.2014.14.3.34. Monteiro, Carlos A. , and Geoffrey Cannon. 2012. "The Impact of Transnational ‘‘Big Food’’ Companies on the South: A View from Brazil." PLoS Medicine 9 (7):e1001252. doi: doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001252.

Required for graduates, recommended but optional for undergraduates Basu, S., S. Vellakkal, S. Agrawal, D. Stuckler, B. Popkin, and S. Ebrahim. 2014. "Averting obesity and type 2 diabetes in India through sugar-sweetened beverage taxation: an economic-epidemiologic modeling study." PLoS Med 11 (1):e1001582. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001582. Drewnowski, A., and P. Eichelsdoerfer. 2010. "Can Low-Income Americans Afford a Healthy Diet?" Nutr Today 44 (6):246-9. doi: 10.1097/NT.0b013e3181c29f79. Nixon, Laura, Pamela Mejia, Andrew Cheyne, and Lori Dorfman. 2014. "Big Soda’s long shadow: news coverage of local proposals to tax sugar-sweetened beverages in Richmond, El Monte and Telluride." Critical Public Health:1-15. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2014.987729. Simon, Michele. 2006. "Can Food Companies Be Trusted to Self-Regulate - An Analysis of Corporate Lobbying and Deception to Undermine Children's Health." Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 39 (1):169.

Optional

Ketchum, Cheri. 2005. "The Essence of Cooking Shows: How the Food Network Constructs Consumer Fantasies." Journal of Communication Inquiry 29 (3):217-34. doi: 10.1177/0196859905275972. De Schutter, Olivier. 2012. "Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter: Mission to Mexico*." In, edited by Human Rights Council, Nineteenth session, Agenda item 3 and civil Promotion and protection of all human rights, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development. New York: United Nations. French, Michael, and Jim Phillips. 2003. "Sophisticates or Dupes? Attitudes toward Food Consumers in Edwardian Britain." Enterprise and Society 4 (3):442-70. doi: 10.1093/es/khg022. Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. 1985. Sweetness and power : the place of sugar in modern history. New York ; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. NB BRILLIANT BOOK Rao, M., A. Afshin, G. Singh, and D. Mozaffarian. 2013. "Do healthier foods and diet patterns cost more than less healthy options? A systematic review and meta- analysis." BMJ Open 3 (12):e004277. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004277. Seabrook, John. 2011. "Snacks for a Fat Planet: PepsiCo takes stock of the obesity epidemic." In New Yorker. Sharma, Lisa L, Stephen P Teret, and Kelly D Brownell. 2010. "The food industry and self-regulation: standards to promote success and to avoid public health failures." American Journal of Public Health 100 (2):240. United States Senate. 2008. "Watch What You Eat: Food Marketing To Kids -Joint Hearing Before The Subcommittee On Labor, Health And Human Services, Education, And Related Agencies And The Subcommittee On Financial Services And General Government Of The Committee On Appropriations - September 23, 2008." In, edited by United States Senate - 110th Congress - 2nd Session Special Hearing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Class 3: 21-Sep

From the Country To the City

This week, we begin with food riots. We’ll dig into the long history of where they come from, the geography of countryside and city, and the thinking about the solutions to food riots - from cheap food to corner store fresh fruits and vegetables.

Film: Bitter Seeds

Required for all Patel, Raj, and Philip McMichael. 2009. "A Political Economy of the Food Riot*." Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 32 (1):9-35. Shannon, Jerry. 2014. "Food deserts: Governing obesity in the neoliberal city." Progress in Human Geography 38 (2):248-66. doi: 10.1177/0309132513484378. USDA, United States Department of Agriculture. 2015. "Food Deserts." United States Department of Agriculture, Accessed April 26. http://apps.ams.usda.gov/fooddeserts/fooddeserts.aspx. Wiggins, Steve, and Sharada Keats. 2015. The rising cost of a healthy diet: Changing relative prices of foods in high-income and emerging economies. Overseas Development Institute. London: May 2015. http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion- files/9580.pdf. Patel, Raj. 2007. Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System. London: Portobello Books. Chapter 6 – Better Living Through Chemistry.

Required for graduates, recommended but optional for undergraduates Collins, E. Diamond, and Kirtana Chandrasekaran. 2012. Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? An analysis of the ‘sustainable intensification’ of agriculture. Friends of the Earth International. Amsterdam. Dannefer, Rachel, Donya A. Williams, Sabrina Baronberg, and Lynn Silver. 2012. "Healthy Bodegas: Increasing and Promoting Healthy Foods at Corner Stores in New York City." American Journal of Public Health 102 (10):e27-e31. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300615. Landrigan, Philip J., and Charles Benbrook. 2015. "GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health." New England Journal of Medicine 373 (8):693-5. doi: doi:10.1056/NEJMp1505660. Lawman, Hannah G., Stephanie Vander Veur, Giridhar Mallya, Tara A. McCoy, Alexis Wojtanowski, Lisa Colby, Timothy A. Sanders, et al. 2015. "Changes in quantity, spending, and nutritional characteristics of adult, adolescent and child urban corner store purchases after an environmental intervention." Preventive Medicine 74:81-5. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.12.003. Raja, Samina, Changxing Ma, and Pavan Yadav. 2008. "Beyond Food Deserts: Measuring and Mapping Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Food Environments." Journal of Planning Education and Research 27 (4):469-82. doi: 10.1177/0739456x08317461. Short, Anne, Julie Guthman, and Samuel Raskin. 2007. "Food Deserts, Oases, or Mirages?: Small Markets and Community Food Security in the San Francisco Bay Area." Journal of Planning Education and Research 26 (3):352-64. doi: 10.1177/0739456x06297795.

Optional Brooke, Christopher. 2015. "Population, Pauperism, and the Proletariat: Rousseau, Malthus, and the Origins of the Social Question." In CSPT Annual Meeting. Yale University. Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers. London: J. Johnson. Gurian-Sherman, Doug. 2009. Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops. Union of Concerned Scientists. Cambridge, MA. http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/documents/food_ and_agriculture/failure-to-yield.pdf. Angus, Ian, and Simon Butler. 2011. Too Many People? Population, Immigration and the Environmental Crisis. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books. Harrison, Harry. 1967. Make room! Make room! Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. Coles, Anthony James. 1978. "The Moral Economy of the Crowd: Some Twentieth- Century Food Riots." The Journal of British Studies 18 (1):157-76. Smith, Barbara Clark. 1994. "Food Rioters and the American Revolution." The William and Mary Quarterly 51 (1):3-38. Tilly, Louise A. 1971. "The Food Riot as a Form of Political Conflict in France." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2 (1):23-57. Dubowitz, T., S. N. Zenk, B. Ghosh-Dastidar, D. A. Cohen, R. Beckman, G. Hunter, E. D. Steiner, and R. L. Collins. 2014. "Healthy food access for urban food desert residents: examination of the food environment, food purchasing practices, diet and BMI." Public Health Nutr:1-11. doi: 10.1017/S1368980014002742. Morton, Lois Wright , and Troy C. Blanchard. 2007 "Starved for Access: Life in Rural America’s Food Deserts." Rural Realities 1(4). Connelly, Matthew. 2006. "Population Control in India: Prologue to the Emergency Period." Population and Development Review 32 (4):629-67. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2006.00145.x.

Class 4: 28-Sep

From the Global North to the Global South

One of the solutions to the problem of food riots was colonialism. This week, we’ll look at what that meant, and what it continues to mean.

Film: Darwin’s Nightmare.

Required for all

Davis, Mike. 2001. Late Victorian holocausts : El Nino famines and the making of the third world. London ; New York: Verso. Pp281-310 Patel, Raj. 2013. "The Long Green Revolution." Journal of Peasant Studies 40 (1):1- 63. Specter, Michael. 2014. "Seeds of Doubt: An activist’s controversial crusade against genetically modified crops." In The New Yorker. New York: Conde Nast. Hobsbawm, Eric J. 1975. The age of capital, 1848-1875. London: Abacus Books. Ch 10 “The Land”, pp205-228

Required for graduates, recommended but optional for undergraduates Clark, S. E., C. Hawkes, S. M. Murphy, K. A. Hansen-Kuhn, and D. Wallinga. 2012. "Exporting obesity: US farm and trade policy and the transformation of the Mexican consumer food environment." Int J Occup Environ Health 18 (1):53- 65. doi: 10.1179/1077352512Z.0000000007. Lowder, Sarah K., Jakob Skoet, and Saumya Singh. 2014. What do we really know about the number and distribution of farms and family farms worldwide? Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2014. ESA Working Paper No. 14-02. . FAO. Rome. (Introduction only) Martínez-Torres, María Elena, and Peter M. Rosset. 2010. "La Vía Campesina: the birth and evolution of a transnational social movement." Journal of Peasant Studies 37 (1):149-75. doi: 10.1080/03066150903498804.

Optional Friedmann, Harriet. 1986. "PATRIARCHAL COMMODITY PRODUCTION." Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice (20):47-55. Parmentier, Stéphane. 2014. Scaling up Agroecological Approaches: What, Why and How. Oxfam-Solidarity. Belgium. Davis, Mike. 2001. Late Victorian holocausts : El Nino famines and the making of the third world. London ; New York: Verso. NB BRILLIANT BOOK. Collins, E. Diamond, and Kirtana Chandrasekaran. 2012. Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? An analysis of the ‘sustainable intensification’ of agriculture. Friends of the Earth International. Amsterdam. Martínez-Torres, María Elena, and Peter M. Rosset. 2014. "Diálogo de saberes in La Vía Campesina: food sovereignty and agroecology." Journal of Peasant Studies:1-19. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2013.872632. McMichael, Philip. 2009. "A food regime genealogy." Journal of Peasant Studies 36 (1):139-69. doi: 10.1080/03066150902820354. Mooney, Patrick H., and Theo J. Majka. 1995. Farmers' and farm workers' movements : social protest in American agriculture. New York: Twayne ; Oxford : Maxwell Macmillan International. Norris, John. 2013. "Make Them Eat Cake: How America is exporting its obesity epidemic." In Foreign Policy. Class 5: 5-Oct

The Invention of Markets

We’re meant to think that markets in food are natural. In fact, almost nothing about markets is natural. This week, we’ll undermine the assumptions about markets by looking at how some of the largest world markets were originally formed, and what they continue to offer the 21st century.

Film: American Agriculture Movement Protests, Chicago, 1985 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDsWs0wka2E

Required for all

Patel, Raj. 2010. "Mozambique's Food Riots - The True Face of Global Warming." In The Observer. London. Cronon, William. 1991. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Ch 3, pp97-147 Moore, Jason W. 2010. "Cheap Food & Bad Money: Food, Frontiers, and Financialization in the Rise and Demise of Neoliberalism." Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 33 (2-3):225-61. doi: 10.2307/23346883.

Required for graduates, recommended but optional for undergraduates Bruins, Hendrik J., and Fengxian Bu. 2006. "Food Security in China and Contingency Planning: the Significance of Grain Reserves." Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 14 (3):114-24. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2006.00488.x. Clapp, Jennifer, and Eric Helleiner. 2012. "Troubled futures? The global food crisis and the politics of agricultural derivatives regulation." Review of International Political Economy 19 (2):181-207. doi: 10.2307/41697914.

Optional Cronon, William. 1991. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. NB BRILLIANT BOOK Karanja, Nancy , and Mary Njenga. 2011. "Feeding the Cities." In 2011 State of the World - Innovations that Nourish the Planet, edited by Danielle Nirenberg and Brian Halweil, 109-20. New York: W W Norton & Co. Bakken, Henry H. 1966. Futures Trading: Origin, Development and Present Economic Status: Mimir Publishers. Bruins, Hendrik J., and Fengxian Bu. 2006. "Food Security in China and Contingency Planning: the Significance of Grain Reserves." Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 14 (3):114-24. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2006.00488.x. Clapp, Jennifer, and Eric Helleiner. 2012. "Troubled futures? The global food crisis and the politics of agricultural derivatives regulation." Review of International Political Economy 19 (2):181-207. doi: 10.2307/41697914. Economist, The. 2013. "The Futures of Capitalism." In The Economist. London. FAO, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. 2014. Growing Greener Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean. FAO. Rome. Greising, David, and Laurie Morse. 1991. Brokers, bagmen, and moles : fraud and corruption in the Chicago futures markets. New York ; Chichester: Wiley. Jacks, David S. 2007. "Populists versus theorists: Futures markets and the volatility of prices." Explorations in Economic History 44 (2):342-62. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2006.04.002. Lambert, Emily. 2011. The Futures: The Rise ofthe Speculator and the Origins of the World's Biggest Markets. New York: Basic Books. West, Mark D. . 2000. "Private Ordering at the World's First Futures Exchange." Michigan Law Review 98 (8):2574-615. Zepeda, Lydia, Anna Reznickova, and Luanne Lohr. 2014. "Overcoming challenges to effectiveness of mobile markets in US food deserts." Appetite 79 (0):58-67. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2014.03.026.

Class 6: 12-Oct

The Creation of Workplaces The Fight for $15 is a national movement in the United States. Who wins and loses in the food chain?

Film: El Contrato https://www.nfb.ca/film/el_contrato

Required for all Barndt, Deborah. 2002. "“Fruits of Injustice”: Women in the Post-nafta Food System." Canadian Woman Studies 21 (4). Black, Jane 2009. "A Squeeze for Tomato Growers; Boycott vs. Higher Wages." In Washington Post, F1. Washington DC. Gollom, Mark. 2015. "Why the minimum wage 'Fight for $15' may be the wrong battle." Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Accessed August 24. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/why-the-minimum-wage-fight-for-15- may-be-the-wrong-battle-1.3168793. Jayaraman, Sarumathi, and Eric Schlosser. 2013. Behind the kitchen door. Ithaca: ILR Press. (Chs 1-2)

Required for graduates, recommended but optional for undergraduates Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2009. "Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food." Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed March 14. http://www.bls.gov/oes/2007/may/oes353021.htm. Gouveia, Lourdes, and Arunas Juska. 2002. "Taming Nature, Taming Workers: Constructing the Separation Between Meat Consumption and Meat Production in the U.S." Sociologia Ruralis 42 (4):370-90. doi: 10.1111/1467- 9523.00222. Bouchard, Maryse F., Jonathan Chevrier, Kim G. Harley, Katherine Kogut, Michelle Vedar, Norma Calderon, Celina Trujillo, et al. 2011. "Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides and IQ in 7-Year Old Children." Environmental Health Perspectives. Moore, Jason W. 2000. "Sugar and the Expansion of the Early Modern World- Economy: Commodity Frontiers, Ecological Transformation, and Industrialization." Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 23 (3):409-33. doi: 10.2307/40241510.

Optional Standing, Guy. 2012. "The Precariat: From Denizens to Citizens[quest]." Polity 44 (4):588-608. Drainville, André C. 2008. "Present in the World Economy: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (1996-2007)." Globalizations 5 (3):357-77. doi: 10.1080/14747730802252495. Li, Tania Murray. 2011. "Centering labor in the land grab debate." The Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (2):281-98. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2011.559009.

Class 7: 19-Oct

Recreating the Household Capitalism has transformed the way we care for one another. This week, we’ll look at the history and future of care work, reproductive labour, and hunger.

Film: Generation Food/Malawi clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVW858gQHoE

Required for all Federici, Silvia. 2004. Caliban and the witch. New York: Autonomedia ; [London : Pluto, distributor]. Chapter Mies, Maria. 1986. Patriarchy and accumulation on a world scale : women in the international division of labour. London: Zed. Chs 2-3 Smith, Lisa C., and Lawrence Haddad. 2015. "Reducing Child Undernutrition: Past Drivers and Priorities for the Post-MDG Era." World Development 68 (0):180- 204. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.11.014.

Required for graduates, recommended but optional for undergraduates Mies, Maria. 1986. Patriarchy and accumulation on a world scale : women in the international division of labour. London: Zed. Ch. 4 Boero, Natalie. 2009. "Fat kids, working moms, and the "epidemic of obesity" : race, class, and mother blame." In The fat studies reader, edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Sondra Solovay. New York: New York Unviersity Press. Gussow, Joan Dye. 1988. Women, Food and the Survival of the Species - the Inaugural Lecture of Joan Dye Gussow as Mary Rose Schwartz Professor of Nutrition and Education. New York. Teachers College. http://rajpatel.org/2014/06/18/joan-dye-gussow-women-food-and-the- survival-of-the-species/. Patel, Raj, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Lizzie Shumba, and Laifolo Dakishoni. 2014. "Cook, Eat, Man, Woman: Understanding the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, Nutritionism, and its alternatives from Malawi." Journal of Peasant Studies.

Optional Brenner, Johanna. 2000. "Utopian Families." Socialist Register 36:133-43. Kimura, Aya Hirata. 2013. Hidden hunger : gender and the politics of smarter foods (Kindle edition). Ithaca: Cornell University Press. NB: BRILLIANT BOOK Mies, Maria. 1986. Patriarchy and accumulation on a world scale : women in the international division of labour. London: Zed.

Class 8: 26-Oct

Making Nature The Natural World isn’t what you think. This week, we’ll investigate why it doesn’t make sense to think of capitalism and nature as separate, but rather to think of them as one in the same, and then to think of how they have built the food system.

Film: Futurama, Seeds

Required for all Brockway, Lucile H. 1979. "Science and Colonial Expansion: the role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens." American Ethnologist 6 (3):449-65. doi: 10.1525/ae.1979.6.3.02a00030. Kloppenburg, Jack. 2014. "Re-purposing the master's tools: the open source seed initiative and the struggle for seed sovereignty." Journal of Peasant Studies:1- 22. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2013.875897. Cronon, William. 1996. "The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature." Environmental History 1 (1):7-28. doi: 10.2307/3985059. Argumedo, Alejandro. 2008. "The Potato Park, Peru: Conserving Agrobiodiversity in an Andean Indigenous Biocultural Heritage Area." In Protected Landscapes and Agrobiodiversity Values, edited by Amend T, Brown J, Kothari A, Phillips A and Stolton S, 45-58. Heidelberg: IUCN & GTZ. Time. 2008. "Best Inventions of 2008." In Time Magazine.

Required for graduates, recommended but optional for undergraduates Jason, W. Moore. 2003. "Nature and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism." Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 26 (2):97-172. doi: 10.2307/40241571. Steffen, Will, Jacques Grinevald, Paul Crutzen, and John McNeill. 2011. The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives. Vol. 369.

Optional Kloppenburg, Jack Ralph. 2005. First the seed: The political economy of plant biotechnology: Univ of Wisconsin Press. Nelson, Gerald C. 2014. Advancing Global Food Security in the Face of a Changing Climate. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Chicago. Francis, Pope. 2015. Laudato Si' Vatican. The Holy See: 2015. Accessed 24 August 2015. http://w2.vatican.va/content/dam/francesco/pdf/encyclicals/documents/p apa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si_en.pdf. Coomes, Oliver T., Shawn J. McGuire, Eric Garine, Sophie Caillon, Doyle McKey, Elise Demeulenaere, Devra Jarvis, et al. 2015. "Farmer seed networks make a limited contribution to agriculture? Four common misconceptions." Food Policy 56:41-50. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.07.008. Rosset, Peter Michael, Braulio Machin Sosa, Adilen Maria Roque Jaime, and Dana Rocio Avila Lozano. 2011. "The Campesino-to-Campesino agroecology movement of ANAP in Cuba: social process methodology in the construction of sustainable peasant agriculture and food sovereignty." Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (1):161-91. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2010.538584.

Class 9: 2-Nov Sculpting Bodies Obesity appears to us as a self-evident problem. This week, we’ll get a little more critical about what the problems of the global food system are, and the historical context in which they’ve emerged. https://utexas.kanopystreaming.com/video/nothing-lose-2006 FILM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MJnm5X9NN0 ABC GLOBESITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGL3iT5MMdQ

Required for all Clark, S. E., C. Hawkes, S. M. Murphy, K. A. Hansen-Kuhn, and D. Wallinga. 2012. "Exporting obesity: US farm and trade policy and the transformation of the Mexican consumer food environment." Int J Occup Environ Health 18 (1):53- 65. doi: 10.1179/1077352512Z.0000000007. Guthman, Julie. 2009. "Neoliberalism and the Constitution of Contemporary Bodies." In The fat studies reader, edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Sondra Solovay, 187-96. New York: New York Unviersity Press. Ernsberger, Paul. 2009. "Does social class explain the connection between weight and health?" In The fat studies reader, edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Sondra Solovay, 25-36. New York: New York Unviersity Press.Malik, V. S., W. C. Willett, and F. B. Hu. 2013. "Global obesity: trends, risk factors and policy implications." Nat Rev Endocrinol 9 (1):13-27. doi: 10.1038/nrendo.2012.199. Becker, Anne E., Stephen E. Gilman, and Rebecca A. Burwell. 2005. "Changes in Prevalence of Overweight and in Body Image among Fijian Women between 1989 and 1998." Obes Res 13 (1):110-7. Critser, Greg. 2000. "Let Them Eat Fat." Harper's Magazine 300 (1798):41-7. Raj Patel, “Restoration Oprah”, forthcoming.

Optional Popkin, Barry M. . 2000. Urbanization and the Nutrition Transition. International Food Policy Research Institute. August 2000. Rothblum, Esther D., and Sondra Solovay. 2009. The fat studies reader. New York: New York Unviersity Press. Stuart, Tristram. 2007. The bloodless revolution : a cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to modern times. 1st American ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Ng, S. W., and B. M. Popkin. 2014. "The healthy weight commitment foundation pledge: calories purchased by u.s. Households with children, 2000-2012." American Journal of Preventative Medicine 47 (4):520-30. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.05.030. Lobstein, T., and S. Dibb. 2005. "Evidence of a possible link between obesogenic food advertising and child overweight." Obesity Reviews 6 (3):203-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2005.00191.x. Short, Anne, Julie Guthman, and Samuel Raskin. 2007. "Food Deserts, Oases, or Mirages?: Small Markets and Community Food Security in the San Francisco Bay Area." Journal of Planning Education and Research 26 (3):352-64. doi: 10.1177/0739456x06297795. Lake, Amelia, and Tim Townshend. 2006. "Obesogenic environments: exploring the built and food environments." The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 126 (6):262-7. doi: 10.1177/1466424006070487.

Class 10 9-Nov Performing Identities

“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are” is one of the signature lines of food studies. But what does it mean when we’re so very removed from the land on which our food is produced? This week, we’ll try to find some answers.

Film: Zimbabwe land reform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ODAIPgfHfk

Blood and Soil - From 2.53-11.53

Required for all Pothukuchi, Kameshwari. 2015. "Five Decades of Community Food Planning in Detroit: City and Grassroots, Growth and Equity." Journal of Planning Education and Research:1-16. doi: 10.1177/0739456X15586630. Fischler, Claude. 1988. "Food, self and identity." Social science information 27 (2):275-92. Leitch, Alison. 2003. "Slow food and the politics of pork fat: Italian food and European identity." Ethnos 68 (4):437-62. doi: 10.1080/0014184032000160514. Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. 1985. Sweetness and power : the place of sugar in modern history. New York ; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. Chapter 5- Power pp187-214 Slocum, Rachel. 2011. "Race in the study of food." Progress in Human Geography 35 (3):303-27. doi: 10.1177/0309132510378335. Raj Patel, Islamophobia gastronomica, forthcoming

Required for graduates, recommended but optional for undergraduates

Moyo, Sam , and Walter Chambati. 2013. "Introduction: Roots of the Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe." In Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe : Beyond White-Settler Capitalism, edited by Sam Moyo and Walter Chambati, 1-28. Dakar: CODESRIA & AIAS. Matthei, Chuck. 1992. "US land reform movements: The theory behind the practice." Social Policy 22 (4):36-45. Heynen, Nik. 2009. "Bending the Bars of Empire from Every Ghetto for Survival: The Black Panther Party's Radical Antihunger Politics of Social Reproduction and Scale." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 99 (2):406-22. Grey, Sam, and Raj Patel. 2014. "Food sovereignty as decolonization: some contributions from Indigenous movements to food system and development politics." Agriculture and Human Values:1-14. doi: 10.1007/s10460-014- 9548-9.

Optional Pasura, Dominic. 2010. "A gendered analysis of land reforms in Zimbabwe." Women's Studies International Forum 33 (5):443-54. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2010.04.002. Mutopo, Patience. 2011. "Women's struggles to access and control land and livelihoods after fast track land reform in Mwenezi District, Zimbabwe." The Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (5):1021-46. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2011.635787. Andrews, Geoff. 2008. The slow food story : politics and pleasure. Montreal: McGill- Queen's University Press ; Sidmouth : Chase Pub. Borras, Saturnino M. , and Jennifer C. Franco. 2012. A ‘Land Sovereignty’ Alternative? Towards a Peoples’ Counter-Enclosure. Transnational Institute. Amsterdam.

Class 11: 16-Nov Corporations McLean, Janet. 2003. "The Transnational Corporation in History: Lessons for Today." Indiana Law Journal 79. Robins, Nick. 2012. "The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational." Asian Affairs 43 (1):12-26. doi: 10.1080/03068374.2012.642512. Schlesinger, Arthur Meier. 1917. "The Uprising Against the East India Company." Political Science Quarterly 32 (1):60-79. Nembhard, Jessica Gordon. 2004. "Cooperative Ownership in the Struggle for African American Economic Empowerment." Humanity & Society 28 (3):298-321. doi: 10.1177/016059760402800307. Fuchs, Doris, Agni Kalfagianni, Jennifer Clapp, and Lawrence Busch. 2011. "Introduction to symposium on private agrifood governance: values, shortcomings and strategies." Agriculture and Human Values 28 (3):335-44. doi: 10.1007/s10460-011-9310-5.

For Grads

Muthu, Sankar. 2008. "Adam Smith's Critique of International Trading Companies: Theorizing "Globalization" in the Age of Enlightenment." Political Theory 36 (2):185-212. Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 1982. "Motion in the System: Coffee, Color, and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue." Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 5 (3):331-88. Handlin, Oscar, and Mary F. Handlin. 1945. "Origins of the American Business Corporation." The Journal of Economic History 5 (1):1-23.

Optional The visible hand Collective Courage

Class 12: 23-Nov How to Change the Food System FAO, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. 2009. Global agriculture towards 2050. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Rome. http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/wsfs/docs/Issues_papers/HLEF2 050_Global_Agriculture.pdf. Holt Giménez, Eric, and Annie Shattuck. 2011. "Food crises, food regimes and food movements: rumblings of reform or tides of transformation?" Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (1):109-44. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2010.538578. Patel, Raj. 2009. "What Does Food Sovereignty Look Like?" Journal of Peasant Studies 36 (3):663-73. Sachs, Carolyn, and Anouk Patel-Campillo. 2014. "Feminist Food Justice: Crafting a New Vision." Feminist Studies 40 (2):396-410. doi: 10.15767/feministstudies.40.2.396.

+ Undergraduate presentations

Class 13: 30-Nov TED Talks by Graduate Students.

NOTE: 7 September is Labor Day and 7 December is a no-class day.