Public lectures and events
Saturday Forum | Social Life of Taste: Critical Geographies of Food and Consumption
Food and, perhaps more evocatively, taste, have a distinctly territorial power from harvest to consumption. Our food choices (re)shape space, influence land use, and affect community formation. Good taste, terroir, and food trends circulate across sites of power.
Urban gardening, organic labeling, and local food movements contribute to and inform the social spaces they rearrange. Taste changes the way people interact with and in space and with each other.
Questioning such tropes as fresh and all-natural, this forum will peel back the glossy packaging to interrogate our eating ways and situate our sense of taste within the contexts of social, economic, and political power.
Lecturer
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Josh Labove, a PhD candidate in geography, holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Chicago and an MA from Dartmouth College.
His recent work focuses on the way legal traditions are performed and (re)constituted along the Canada-US border. Engaging with the border as both a geopolitical production and a means of investigating methods of inclusion and exclusion, he continues to do research about transnational mobility, particularly in the post-9/11 North American context.
Sponsors
The Free Saturday Forums are sponsored by SFU Seniors Lifelong Learners Society.
Questions?
Email: csreg@sfu.ca
Phone: 778-782-8000