Lucy Jarosz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1474209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Jarosz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Jarosz |
| SIGNATURE | JAROSZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 508 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Comparing food security and food sovereignty discourses
This essay conceptualizes food security and food sovereignty as fluid and changing discourses that define the problem of hunger. I trace the discursive geohistories of food security and food sovereignty in order to identify oppositions and relationalities between them. I argue that the interpretations of, and relations between, food security and food sovereignty vary by geography and scale, as well as by the conceptual and theoretical differences…
Considering sovereignty, care ethics and policy in food politics
Considering Food Security, Sovereignty and Systems Narratives in Colin Sage's Environment and Food
Defining World Hunger
Through a reading of policy texts centering upon food security published by the World Bank and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, I problematize the concept of food security by showing how its definition and its scale have changed over time. I use scale as an analytic frame to highlight how changing definitions of food security serve neoliberal ideology. The scaled definitions of food security move from an early emphasis upon t…
Nourishing women
This article examines the motivations of women farmers actively involved in community supported agriculture. Drawing from interviews with farmers situated in a metropolitan region of the USA, it argues that these women's motivations are expressive of an ethics of care that defines their work as centered upon nourishing themselves and others. Women came to this work as a conscious choice to change their life-work. These choices are shaped by the u…
Gender and the Dialectics of Development
"Gender and the Dialectics of Development." , 100(1), pp. 225–226Keywords: developmentgender relationshistorical materialismpolitical economy
Articulations of Place, Poverty, and Race
This project extends poverty research by addressing the lack of knowledge about place and race differences in poverty processes (Blank 2005 Blank, R. 2005. Poverty, policy and place: How poverty and policies to alleviate poverty are shaped by local characteristics. Regional Science Review, 28(4): 441–64. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Rural places experience a range of modes of articulation within the global division of rural…
Energy, Climate Change, Meat, and Markets
The widely used metaphor of a perfect storm identifies the world food crisis as a contingent event that will end when food prices decline. The problem is one of supply and demand. The solution is a technological fix focused upon increasing the productivity of small farmers through a second green revolution and integrating them into markets. An international political economy/ecology approach to the food crisis reveals that the food crisis is a pr…
The city in the country
Building economies from the bottom up
This paper examines interconnected processes of economic restructuring and representations of poor subjects that rely on imaginaries of race, ethnicity, class and rural space. We argue that poverty and privilege are mutually produced and so we focus on the representational practices of White leaders in persistently poor counties across the American Northwest. We draw from case study research to understand region-wide material and discursive proce…
French Beans and Food Scares
Susanne Freidberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ix and 269 pp., photos, maps, notes, and index. $24.95 paper(ISBN 0-19-516961-1). This is a fascinating, funny, and very well written mul
Taking Stands
Ethics in Political Ecology
Political ecology as ethical practice
A Human Geographer's Response to Guns, Germs, and Steel
Sophisticated People Versus Rednecks”
In this paper, we argue for the importance of constructing a human geography of white class difference. More particularly, we present a theoretical framework for understanding the cultural politics of class and whiteness in the context of rural restructuring. We theorize these politics through an examination of the national discourse of redneck that has emerged in the US. We analyze the term “redneck” as one of several rhetorical categories that …
Placing Academic Labor
Understanding agri-food networks as social relations
The geography of Washington's world apple
Strawberry Fields
Working in the global food system
Taboo and Time-Work Experience in Madagascar
Clocks define the days and the work rhythms of most of the world's people. Debates and theories about how the time-work experience is shaped by the exigencies of capitalist development and the demands of time machines commonly focus on industrial transformation in Western Europe (Mumford 1934; Thrift 1981). Time-work experience in regional agrarian transformation remains problematic and undertheorized, perhaps because of the intimate connections …
Agents of Power, Landscapes of Fear
Vampires and heart thieves have, it is said, inhabited the island of Madagascar for the last century. These mythic figures signify relations of identity tied to the global processes of colonial capitalism, modernism, and imperialism as they relate to a colonized Africa, and more specifically, to the island of Madagascar. The vampire and heart thief express the array of extractive processes rooted in the social relations between colonizer and colo…
Defining and Explaining Tropical Deforestation
The case study of deforestation in Madagascar demonstrated how deforestation is a complex phenomenon that reflects interconnections between land-based resources, human groups, and global political economy; specifically, there is a link between changing land use practices affecting shifting cultivation and tropical deforestation. The general development model of exponential population growth and shifting cultivation causing deforestation and envir…
Constructing the Dark Continent
My purpose is to reveal the historical persistence and the ideological power of the metaphor of Africa as the Dark Continent. This metaphor identifies and incorporates an entire continent as Other in a way that reaffirms Western dominance and reveals hostile and racist valuations of Africa and Africans in travel accounts, news reports, and academic writing. I examine the separate, but overlapping. Western discourses of explorers, missionaries, an…
The city in the country
Constructing the Dark Continent
My purpose is to reveal the historical persistence and the ideological power of the metaphor of Africa as the Dark Continent. This metaphor identifies and incorporates an entire continent as Other in a way that reaffirms Western dominance and reveals hostile and racist valuations of Africa and Africans in travel accounts, news reports, and academic writing. I examine the separate, but overlapping. Western discourses of explorers, missionaries, an…
Defining and Explaining Tropical Deforestation
The case study of deforestation in Madagascar demonstrated how deforestation is a complex phenomenon that reflects interconnections between land-based resources, human groups, and global political economy; specifically, there is a link between changing land use practices affecting shifting cultivation and tropical deforestation. The general development model of exponential population growth and shifting cultivation causing deforestation and envir…
Sophisticated People Versus Rednecks”
In this paper, we argue for the importance of constructing a human geography of white class difference. More particularly, we present a theoretical framework for understanding the cultural politics of class and whiteness in the context of rural restructuring. We theorize these politics through an examination of the national discourse of redneck that has emerged in the US. We analyze the term “redneck” as one of several rhetorical categories that …
Comparing food security and food sovereignty discourses
This essay conceptualizes food security and food sovereignty as fluid and changing discourses that define the problem of hunger. I trace the discursive geohistories of food security and food sovereignty in order to identify oppositions and relationalities between them. I argue that the interpretations of, and relations between, food security and food sovereignty vary by geography and scale, as well as by the conceptual and theoretical differences…
Understanding agri-food networks as social relations
Nourishing women
This article examines the motivations of women farmers actively involved in community supported agriculture. Drawing from interviews with farmers situated in a metropolitan region of the USA, it argues that these women's motivations are expressive of an ethics of care that defines their work as centered upon nourishing themselves and others. Women came to this work as a conscious choice to change their life-work. These choices are shaped by the u…
Building economies from the bottom up
This paper examines interconnected processes of economic restructuring and representations of poor subjects that rely on imaginaries of race, ethnicity, class and rural space. We argue that poverty and privilege are mutually produced and so we focus on the representational practices of White leaders in persistently poor counties across the American Northwest. We draw from case study research to understand region-wide material and discursive proce…
Defining World Hunger
Through a reading of policy texts centering upon food security published by the World Bank and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, I problematize the concept of food security by showing how its definition and its scale have changed over time. I use scale as an analytic frame to highlight how changing definitions of food security serve neoliberal ideology. The scaled definitions of food security move from an early emphasis upon t…
Articulations of Place, Poverty, and Race
This project extends poverty research by addressing the lack of knowledge about place and race differences in poverty processes (Blank 2005 Blank, R. 2005. Poverty, policy and place: How poverty and policies to alleviate poverty are shaped by local characteristics. Regional Science Review, 28(4): 441–64. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Rural places experience a range of modes of articulation within the global division of rural…
Agents of Power, Landscapes of Fear
Vampires and heart thieves have, it is said, inhabited the island of Madagascar for the last century. These mythic figures signify relations of identity tied to the global processes of colonial capitalism, modernism, and imperialism as they relate to a colonized Africa, and more specifically, to the island of Madagascar. The vampire and heart thief express the array of extractive processes rooted in the social relations between colonizer and colo…
Energy, Climate Change, Meat, and Markets
The widely used metaphor of a perfect storm identifies the world food crisis as a contingent event that will end when food prices decline. The problem is one of supply and demand. The solution is a technological fix focused upon increasing the productivity of small farmers through a second green revolution and integrating them into markets. An international political economy/ecology approach to the food crisis reveals that the food crisis is a pr…
Working in the global food system
The geography of Washington's world apple
Ethics in Political Ecology
Taboo and Time-Work Experience in Madagascar
Clocks define the days and the work rhythms of most of the world's people. Debates and theories about how the time-work experience is shaped by the exigencies of capitalist development and the demands of time machines commonly focus on industrial transformation in Western Europe (Mumford 1934; Thrift 1981). Time-work experience in regional agrarian transformation remains problematic and undertheorized, perhaps because of the intimate connections …
Political ecology as ethical practice
Women as rice sharecroppers in Madagascar
This case study, drawn from a rice‐growing region in Madagascar, demonstrates how gender and class differences shape individual access to and control of productive resources. Production strategies differ among the women and men who crop rice on shares and are primarily distinguished by class position and gender. Single women invariably share out the land they own to male croppers, whereas men of all classes may sharecrop land from or to other men…
Considering sovereignty, care ethics and policy in food politics
A Human Geographer's Response to Guns, Germs, and Steel
Placing Academic Labor
Women as rice sharecroppers in Madagascar
This case study, drawn from a rice‐growing region in Madagascar, demonstrates how gender and class differences shape individual access to and control of productive resources. Production strategies differ among the women and men who crop rice on shares and are primarily distinguished by class position and gender. Single women invariably share out the land they own to male croppers, whereas men of all classes may sharecrop land from or to other men…
Constructing the Dark Continent
My purpose is to reveal the historical persistence and the ideological power of the metaphor of Africa as the Dark Continent. This metaphor identifies and incorporates an entire continent as Other in a way that reaffirms Western dominance and reveals hostile and racist valuations of Africa and Africans in travel accounts, news reports, and academic writing. I examine the separate, but overlapping. Western discourses of explorers, missionaries, an…
Defining and Explaining Tropical Deforestation
The case study of deforestation in Madagascar demonstrated how deforestation is a complex phenomenon that reflects interconnections between land-based resources, human groups, and global political economy; specifically, there is a link between changing land use practices affecting shifting cultivation and tropical deforestation. The general development model of exponential population growth and shifting cultivation causing deforestation and envir…
Taboo and Time-Work Experience in Madagascar
Clocks define the days and the work rhythms of most of the world's people. Debates and theories about how the time-work experience is shaped by the exigencies of capitalist development and the demands of time machines commonly focus on industrial transformation in Western Europe (Mumford 1934; Thrift 1981). Time-work experience in regional agrarian transformation remains problematic and undertheorized, perhaps because of the intimate connections …
Agents of Power, Landscapes of Fear
Vampires and heart thieves have, it is said, inhabited the island of Madagascar for the last century. These mythic figures signify relations of identity tied to the global processes of colonial capitalism, modernism, and imperialism as they relate to a colonized Africa, and more specifically, to the island of Madagascar. The vampire and heart thief express the array of extractive processes rooted in the social relations between colonizer and colo…
Working in the global food system
Strawberry Fields
Understanding agri-food networks as social relations
The geography of Washington's world apple
Placing Academic Labor
Sophisticated People Versus Rednecks”
In this paper, we argue for the importance of constructing a human geography of white class difference. More particularly, we present a theoretical framework for understanding the cultural politics of class and whiteness in the context of rural restructuring. We theorize these politics through an examination of the national discourse of redneck that has emerged in the US. We analyze the term “redneck” as one of several rhetorical categories that …
A Human Geographer's Response to Guns, Germs, and Steel
Ethics in Political Ecology
Political ecology as ethical practice
French Beans and Food Scares
Susanne Freidberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ix and 269 pp., photos, maps, notes, and index. $24.95 paper(ISBN 0-19-516961-1). This is a fascinating, funny, and very well written mul
Taking Stands
The city in the country
Building economies from the bottom up
This paper examines interconnected processes of economic restructuring and representations of poor subjects that rely on imaginaries of race, ethnicity, class and rural space. We argue that poverty and privilege are mutually produced and so we focus on the representational practices of White leaders in persistently poor counties across the American Northwest. We draw from case study research to understand region-wide material and discursive proce…
Energy, Climate Change, Meat, and Markets
The widely used metaphor of a perfect storm identifies the world food crisis as a contingent event that will end when food prices decline. The problem is one of supply and demand. The solution is a technological fix focused upon increasing the productivity of small farmers through a second green revolution and integrating them into markets. An international political economy/ecology approach to the food crisis reveals that the food crisis is a pr…
Gender and the Dialectics of Development
"Gender and the Dialectics of Development." , 100(1), pp. 225–226Keywords: developmentgender relationshistorical materialismpolitical economy
Articulations of Place, Poverty, and Race
This project extends poverty research by addressing the lack of knowledge about place and race differences in poverty processes (Blank 2005 Blank, R. 2005. Poverty, policy and place: How poverty and policies to alleviate poverty are shaped by local characteristics. Regional Science Review, 28(4): 441–64. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Rural places experience a range of modes of articulation within the global division of rural…
Defining World Hunger
Through a reading of policy texts centering upon food security published by the World Bank and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, I problematize the concept of food security by showing how its definition and its scale have changed over time. I use scale as an analytic frame to highlight how changing definitions of food security serve neoliberal ideology. The scaled definitions of food security move from an early emphasis upon t…
Nourishing women
This article examines the motivations of women farmers actively involved in community supported agriculture. Drawing from interviews with farmers situated in a metropolitan region of the USA, it argues that these women's motivations are expressive of an ethics of care that defines their work as centered upon nourishing themselves and others. Women came to this work as a conscious choice to change their life-work. These choices are shaped by the u…
Comparing food security and food sovereignty discourses
This essay conceptualizes food security and food sovereignty as fluid and changing discourses that define the problem of hunger. I trace the discursive geohistories of food security and food sovereignty in order to identify oppositions and relationalities between them. I argue that the interpretations of, and relations between, food security and food sovereignty vary by geography and scale, as well as by the conceptual and theoretical differences…
Considering sovereignty, care ethics and policy in food politics
Political science (20 works) · Geography (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Economics (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Agriculture (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (8 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 works)