Author

Max Stephenson Jr., Kim Niewolny, Anna Erwin, and Laura Zanotti, Eds.

Publisher

Frontiers

Release Date

Sept. 2024

Summary

The premise of this Research Topic is that the challenges confronting contemporary food systems necessitate a fundamental reimagining of how individuals and broader social collectives understand their roles—both personal and professional—within them. The dominant neoliberal and technical-rational perspectives that have long governed a globalized approach to food systems are deeply intertwined with other systemic inequities, entrenched privileges, and extractive practices including settler colonialism, white supremacy, ableism, patriarchy, and heteronormativity. Together these forces shape how knowledge is produced and how action occurs within our food systems. These forces and frameworks have created the systemic concerns that characterize our current food system, and those structures and processes have demonstrated marked resistance to change. Our call for this volume emphasized that a shift away from the way of knowing that legitimates and underpins this situation is imperative.