Environmental for Food Justice

Moderator’s Note: This is the fourth in a selection of student research notes and essays prepared for a political ecology seminar I taught during the just completed fall quarter (Sept-Dec.). The students produced these essays and other contributions presented here which are synthesized from quarter-long topical research projects and presented in the form of a series of thematic posts related to the field of political ecology. Some of the posts are autobiographical and draw from personal life histories and experiences but these are not empty exercises in navel gazing. Most of these students are part of the so-called Millennial Generation and they seem to me more like critical realists than alienated narcissists, and not because it is an intellectual fad but as a matter of historical and structural circumstances. This is a group of serious-minded, concerned young people who insist that they are going to be more than the embodiment of an alienated apolitical multitude stymied by an incre...