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ACADEMIC WORK: CONTEMPORARY WORK: SUMMARY
My contemporary academic work was ambitious and addressed multiple topics. Most broadly, I examined food-based social movements in the US. I then focused on food justice movements in food deserts of Phoenix, Arizona. I described the strategies around healthy food acquisition when living in an urban food desert from the perspective of 53 residential interviews. I analyzed how food justice movements operate day-to-day based upon interviews with food justice practitioners and hundreds of hours of participant observation in gardens and meetings held by those practitioners. Finally, I explained how food justice groups work with other food-based social movements in Phoenix, and how they interact with city governance and overcome policy barriers.
