109: Campus Food System Alternatives as Organizing Tools with Dr. Michael Classens
AnthroDish7 Nov 2023

109: Campus Food System Alternatives as Organizing Tools with Dr. Michael Classens

When we think about food security and food systems, it can easily be imagined as a large national or state or provincial level experience. Yet many young adults increasingly are experiencing the unique dynamics of food systems on campus landscapes, which offers a concentrated and specific food environment that can feel limited as food prices increase and food vendors on campus continue to produce some questionable (and now expensive) meatloaf.

Yet post-secondary campuses are spaces of resistance and social justice, and it seems only fitting that students can push back to create food systems alternatives that navigate long-kept colonial structures in the academic institution.

My guest this week, Dr. Michael Classens, is here to explore how these alternatives have played out through his and his students ongoing research. Michael is a white settler and Assistant Professor in the School of the Environment at University of Toronto. He is broadly interested in areas of social and environmental justice, with an emphasis on these dynamics within food systems. As a teacher, researcher, learner, and activist he is committed to connecting theory with practice, and scholarship with socio-ecological change.

Today we're discussing the work he and his students have been doing for the past few years focused on what he calls campus food systems alternatives – which are initiatives started/operated by (mostly) students that employ food as an organizing strategy to effect broader socio-ecological change on campus (and beyond). Examples include campus farms, student-run cafés, community fridges, and the like.

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