Geographies of food and justice: nourishing criticality and thinking through interconnection in crisis times

Join the Society's Food Geographies Research Group for a thought-provoking online event exploring how food can act as a powerful lens to understand and connect some of today’s most urgent social issues.

This event brings perspectives on racial justice, environmental justice and queer liberation, examining how these themes intersect and shape the food narratives in our everyday lives. Drawing on critical food geography scholarship, the event will challenge the influences of coloniality across our lives, including binary ways of thinking that often simplify complex realities.

Through panel discussions, interactive workshops and collective reflection participants will be encouraged to engage deeply with how food systems both reflect and reproduce broader systems of inequality, and how they might be reimagined.

A key feature of the event will be a collaborative, visually documented output by Eddy Draws CIC. This creative resource will serve as a conversation starter beyond the event, supporting ongoing dialogue, teaching and research.

About the speakers

• Clare Courtney (she/her), is a 2nd year Human Geography PhD student at the University of Manchester exploring alternative food projects and their role in supporting migrant communities with belonging through food and cooking. She founded Heart & Parcel in 2015, a social food and education project supporting migrant communities by learning English through food and cooking.
• Chris Keeve (they/them), is a critical geographer, political ecologist, and food scholar. They are also a farmer, organizer, educator, and researcher working with multiple seedkeeping communities based in the U.S. They are interested in geographic storytelling, the messy archives of garden spaces, radical possibilities through seed, and the sorghum harvest. 
• Eddy Draws CIC (they/them) is a social enterprise based in Glasgow. They are on a mission to support people and communities to have more engaging and memorable conversations and create greater access to clear (and sometimes beautiful) information through graphic recording. This is a way of visually capturing and summarising meetings, conferences and other events in real time, through live illustration. We offer a sliding scale that allows organisations and communities of many sizes to use graphic recording, illustration and animation.
• Huss Chaudhry (Chachua Huss) (he/they), is a freelance community builder and producer, working with Global Majority and Queer grass roots communities. He has worked for over a decade in the sector, supporting communities through food distribution, teaching, community supper clubs, free community cafes, as well as working with funders at various sizes and levels to support communities in Manchester in tackling issues around food insecurity and structural inequalities. Learn more about Huss’ work at @RainbowNoirMcr @QueerUnityHub.
• Lucy Aphramor (they/them), is freelance dietitian and council member of the Food Ethics Council. Their practice engages food and body stories at the intersection of self-care and social change. Lucy is passionate about teaching as a tool for collective liberation and healing and shares transformative reframings of public health nutrition as a contribution to food justice work. They are co-founder of World Critical Dietetics and are also a performance poet.

Booking information

• Advance booking for this event is required. In order to book you will need an account on our website. If you already have an account you will be prompted to log in when you click 'book now'. Please create an account if you do not have one yet (you do not need to be a member of the Society to create an account).
• This event will be held on Zoom and joining instructions will be included in your confirmation email.

If you have any questions or require assistance with your booking, please email events@rgs.org