Can We Learn to Love what’s Local (and Give up the Pineapple in
December)?
Sacrifice and Resilience in
American Food Culture
Heather C.
Syllabus, ENVS
4950 Environmental Studies Seminar, ETSU
Weds, Jan 23, 2013
Statement of Purpose
I am interested in how people can change habits and customs to create a more sustainable market and food system. I am planning on going to graduate school for environmental sociology where I would like to continue to research and understand the American food system and the politics, economics and sociology related to food distribution and consumption.
Additional Texts
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle:
A Year of Food Life. Barbara Kingsolver.
HarperPerrenial: 2008, 400 pages.
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s
Underground Food Movements. Sandor
Ellix Katz. Chelsea Green: 2006, 378 pages.
Food Justice: Food, Health,
and the Environment. Robert Gottlieb and
Anupama Joshi. The MIT Press (MA): 2010., 304 pages.
“Nature’s
Spoils: The Underground Food
Movement Ferments Revolution.” Burkhard Bilger. The New Yorker: 2010, Nov 22.
Service Placement