EARTH LIFE
Evolving reading list. A selection of books intersecting the connected issues around how we eat, who gets to eat, and how we design for the future. This is a non-exhaustive list of reading materials from my research and will be periodically updated.

This course is designed to explore and reframe our globalized food system starting with examining colonialism's effects on food systems over the past 700 years to our present and considering our future and climate crisis. We will develop an understanding by looking at how it used food as a weapon to control and destroy native and indigenous populations past and present, and based on this understanding we examine its present effects through racism, gender discrimination, and structural violence – from agriculture, labor, public health, and international policy. Through discussing conceptual frameworks– such as food justice and food sovereignty we’re invited to explore the work of farmers, activists, artists, scholars, and humanitarian agencies and policymakers to reimagine how we create a food system that is both equitable and sustainable.

We will also investigate how food is at the intersection of social and economic justice and land back movements and the future of agriculture. I invite everyone to also explore our own positions as stakeholders in the food system and encourage students to integrate aspects of their own scholarly and or activist projects into assignments. This course will utilize a variety of first-hand interviews, films, and readings to frame our discussions in reclaiming the necessity of food for all and dispelling colonial power structures of subjugating nature, destruction, and erasure both in human life and plant life. Nourishment is a prerequisite to equity. How will we design the future of food?