The new food politics
5 December 2016
In the last of the School of Geography and Planning’s 50th anniversary celebrations, Head of School, Professor Paul Milbourne chaired an event on new food politics.
The event drew on the interdisciplinary expertise of a long established food research community at the School. Academic staff have expertise and research interests in the relationship between conventional and alternative food networks, food consumption practices. They are also leading research on the interplay between global and local food systems, community food growing, public food procurement, food justice, animal geographies, and the community food sector.
Speaking about the event Paul said: “It provided a range of critical perspectives on food, drawing on case study examples from the UK and around the world. The range of speakers who attended focused on the shifting governance of the food system and will discuss the ways in which food is increasingly being drawn into social debates about inequality, justice and ethics.”
Chaired by Paul Milbourne, the event included presentations from Agatha Herman, Antonio Ioris, Terry Marsden, Ana Moragues Faus, Kevin Morgan, Roberta Sonnino and Andy Williams.