Daniel Block
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Block |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Block |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chicago State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9288-2033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Governing the nurturing city: The uneven enforcement of street food vending regulations
International audience
Doing community geography
Community Geography offers researchers, community groups, and students opportunities to engage in action oriented applied geographical research. Creating and sustaining these research programs can be challenging, programs can involve many partners from both academic and the community, have different goals and purposes, and utilize a variety of methods to perform research. In this paper we offer a framework of three primary overarching principles …
Funding a Peoples' Food Justice Geography? Community-Academic Collaborations as Geographic Praxis
Community–academic collaborations that value experience-based knowledge alongside institutional ways of knowing have long been of interest in geography. In 1984, Harvey proposed a “peoples’ geography” that would integrate nonacademic knowledge into the field, increasing geography’s potential to help create a just world. Recent community–academic food justice collaborations have taken up this proposition through initiatives addressing issues from …
Community geography: Toward a disciplinary framework
Community geography is a growing subfield that provides a framework for relevant and engaged scholarship. In this paper, we define community geography as a form of research praxis, one that involves academic and public scholars with the goal of co-produced and mutually-beneficial knowledge. Community geography draws from a pragmatist model of inquiry, one that views communities as emergent through a recursive process of problem definition and soc…
Envisioning radical food geographies: Shared learning and praxis through the Food Justice Scholar-Activist/Activist-Scholar Community of Practice
Food justice scholarship and activism have coevolved and at times been intertwined over past decades. In some instances, there are clear distinctions between “scholarly” and “activist” activities. However, individuals, groups, and actions often take on characteristics of both, producing knowledge at multiple sociopolitical scales. Recognizing and building upon these dynamics is important for strengthening food justice work. This is especially sal…
Urban foodscape trends: Disparities in healthy food access in Chicago, 2007–2014
Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City
Exploring youth socio-spatial perceptions of higher education landscapes through sketch maps
Previous research on broadening participation in higher education and Science Technology Engineering and Math has inadequately examined the role of place. This article explores the socio-spatial perceptions of youth of a college campus and changes in perceptions youth experience during their transition from being a university neighbor to becoming part of a university community. This study uses sketch maps and qualitative Geographic Information Sy…
Foodways of the urban poor
Food sovereignty, urban food access, and food activism: Contemplating the connections through examples from Chicago
Ciclovìa in Chicago: A Strategy for Community Development to Improve Public Health
Ciclovìas create temporary spaces for physical activity by closing off streets to motorized traffic for short periods of time—typically a day at a time. In Chicago, these health promotion events are called “Open Streets” and follow a route through five diverse communities. We report findings for evaluation of 2008--2009 Open Streets events. The evaluation creates a framework for examining Ciclovìa outcomes and tracks attendance, participant chara…
Taking food and agriculture studies to the streets: Community engagement, working across disciplines, and community change
Engagement for transformation: Value webs for local food system development
Public health, cooperatives, local regulation, and the development of modern milk policy: The Chicago milkshed, 1900–1940
Sustainability and Scale: US Milk-Market Orders as Relocalization Policy
There has been a recent wave of political and theoretical interest in localism and relocalization as a political strategy in resistance to the hegemonic power of globalization. Some geographers and other observers of spatial politics have been skeptical of these efforts, questioning the effectiveness and the effects of relocalization movements. In response, DuPuis and Goodman have argued for a 'reflexive localism' that takes a more pragmatic appr…
A comparison of the availability and affordability of a market basket in two communities in the Chicago area
Objective The purpose of the present study was to characterise the food landscape of an inner city African American neighbourhood and its mixed-race suburban neighbour. Detailed analysis focuses on the relationship between community store mix and price, availability and produce quality. Design A market basket study was completed by members of the Chicago Food Systems Collaborative. The US Department of Agriculture's standard market basket survey …
What fills the gaps in food deserts? Mapping independent groceries, food stamp card utilization and chain fast-food restaurants in the Chicago area
The Making of an Interdisciplinary Partnership: The Case of the Chicago Food System Collaborative
Interdisciplinary partnerships foster innovation to address pressing social problems. This paper describes an interdisciplinary partnership called the Chicago Food System Collaborative (CFSC) composed of a team of partners from four academic institutions and three community-based organizations representing a total of eight disciplines that included: community development and community organizing, community psychology, geography, nursing, nutritio…
Saving Milk Through Masculinity: Public Health Officers and Pure Milk, 1880-1930
In the early twentieth and late nineteenth centuries, milk was considered both the perfect food and a vector for many diseases. Given this dichotomy, the protection of the milk supply became one of the most important jobs of urban public health officers. In taking on this task, male public health officers took control of a substance that, because of its association with women and child-rearing, was considered feminine. This paper follows the prom…
Making the Country Work for the City: Von Thünen's Ideas in Geography, Agricultural Economics and the Sociology of Agriculture
Geography, as the discipline responsible for describing the organization of space, has developed several ways of dealing with the phenomenon of the central city and its surrounding hinterlands. One of the most prominent of models used is von Thünen's Isolated State, a predictive model of how rural hinterlands organize agricultural production in relation to an urban center. Despite today's globalized food provisioning system, there are still some …
Making the Country Work for the City: Von ThA?A1/4nen's Ideas in Geography, Agricultural Economics and the Sociology of Agriculture
Foodways of the urban poor
Food sovereignty, urban food access, and food activism: Contemplating the connections through examples from Chicago
Community geography: Toward a disciplinary framework
Community geography is a growing subfield that provides a framework for relevant and engaged scholarship. In this paper, we define community geography as a form of research praxis, one that involves academic and public scholars with the goal of co-produced and mutually-beneficial knowledge. Community geography draws from a pragmatist model of inquiry, one that views communities as emergent through a recursive process of problem definition and soc…
Envisioning radical food geographies: Shared learning and praxis through the Food Justice Scholar-Activist/Activist-Scholar Community of Practice
Food justice scholarship and activism have coevolved and at times been intertwined over past decades. In some instances, there are clear distinctions between “scholarly” and “activist” activities. However, individuals, groups, and actions often take on characteristics of both, producing knowledge at multiple sociopolitical scales. Recognizing and building upon these dynamics is important for strengthening food justice work. This is especially sal…
Exploring youth socio-spatial perceptions of higher education landscapes through sketch maps
Previous research on broadening participation in higher education and Science Technology Engineering and Math has inadequately examined the role of place. This article explores the socio-spatial perceptions of youth of a college campus and changes in perceptions youth experience during their transition from being a university neighbor to becoming part of a university community. This study uses sketch maps and qualitative Geographic Information Sy…
Doing community geography
Community Geography offers researchers, community groups, and students opportunities to engage in action oriented applied geographical research. Creating and sustaining these research programs can be challenging, programs can involve many partners from both academic and the community, have different goals and purposes, and utilize a variety of methods to perform research. In this paper we offer a framework of three primary overarching principles …
Urban foodscape trends: Disparities in healthy food access in Chicago, 2007–2014
Funding a Peoples' Food Justice Geography? Community-Academic Collaborations as Geographic Praxis
Community–academic collaborations that value experience-based knowledge alongside institutional ways of knowing have long been of interest in geography. In 1984, Harvey proposed a “peoples’ geography” that would integrate nonacademic knowledge into the field, increasing geography’s potential to help create a just world. Recent community–academic food justice collaborations have taken up this proposition through initiatives addressing issues from …
Engagement for transformation: Value webs for local food system development
The Making of an Interdisciplinary Partnership: The Case of the Chicago Food System Collaborative
Interdisciplinary partnerships foster innovation to address pressing social problems. This paper describes an interdisciplinary partnership called the Chicago Food System Collaborative (CFSC) composed of a team of partners from four academic institutions and three community-based organizations representing a total of eight disciplines that included: community development and community organizing, community psychology, geography, nursing, nutritio…
Governing the nurturing city: The uneven enforcement of street food vending regulations
International audience
Ciclovìa in Chicago: A Strategy for Community Development to Improve Public Health
Ciclovìas create temporary spaces for physical activity by closing off streets to motorized traffic for short periods of time—typically a day at a time. In Chicago, these health promotion events are called “Open Streets” and follow a route through five diverse communities. We report findings for evaluation of 2008--2009 Open Streets events. The evaluation creates a framework for examining Ciclovìa outcomes and tracks attendance, participant chara…
Public health, cooperatives, local regulation, and the development of modern milk policy: The Chicago milkshed, 1900–1940
Taking food and agriculture studies to the streets: Community engagement, working across disciplines, and community change
Sustainability and Scale: US Milk-Market Orders as Relocalization Policy
There has been a recent wave of political and theoretical interest in localism and relocalization as a political strategy in resistance to the hegemonic power of globalization. Some geographers and other observers of spatial politics have been skeptical of these efforts, questioning the effectiveness and the effects of relocalization movements. In response, DuPuis and Goodman have argued for a 'reflexive localism' that takes a more pragmatic appr…
Saving Milk Through Masculinity: Public Health Officers and Pure Milk, 1880-1930
In the early twentieth and late nineteenth centuries, milk was considered both the perfect food and a vector for many diseases. Given this dichotomy, the protection of the milk supply became one of the most important jobs of urban public health officers. In taking on this task, male public health officers took control of a substance that, because of its association with women and child-rearing, was considered feminine. This paper follows the prom…
Making the Country Work for the City: Von Thünen's Ideas in Geography, Agricultural Economics and the Sociology of Agriculture
Geography, as the discipline responsible for describing the organization of space, has developed several ways of dealing with the phenomenon of the central city and its surrounding hinterlands. One of the most prominent of models used is von Thünen's Isolated State, a predictive model of how rural hinterlands organize agricultural production in relation to an urban center. Despite today's globalized food provisioning system, there are still some …
Making the Country Work for the City: Von Thünen's Ideas in Geography, Agricultural Economics and the Sociology of Agriculture
Geography, as the discipline responsible for describing the organization of space, has developed several ways of dealing with the phenomenon of the central city and its surrounding hinterlands. One of the most prominent of models used is von Thünen's Isolated State, a predictive model of how rural hinterlands organize agricultural production in relation to an urban center. Despite today's globalized food provisioning system, there are still some …
Making the Country Work for the City: Von ThA?A1/4nen's Ideas in Geography, Agricultural Economics and the Sociology of Agriculture
Saving Milk Through Masculinity: Public Health Officers and Pure Milk, 1880-1930
In the early twentieth and late nineteenth centuries, milk was considered both the perfect food and a vector for many diseases. Given this dichotomy, the protection of the milk supply became one of the most important jobs of urban public health officers. In taking on this task, male public health officers took control of a substance that, because of its association with women and child-rearing, was considered feminine. This paper follows the prom…
A comparison of the availability and affordability of a market basket in two communities in the Chicago area
Objective The purpose of the present study was to characterise the food landscape of an inner city African American neighbourhood and its mixed-race suburban neighbour. Detailed analysis focuses on the relationship between community store mix and price, availability and produce quality. Design A market basket study was completed by members of the Chicago Food Systems Collaborative. The US Department of Agriculture's standard market basket survey …
What fills the gaps in food deserts? Mapping independent groceries, food stamp card utilization and chain fast-food restaurants in the Chicago area
The Making of an Interdisciplinary Partnership: The Case of the Chicago Food System Collaborative
Interdisciplinary partnerships foster innovation to address pressing social problems. This paper describes an interdisciplinary partnership called the Chicago Food System Collaborative (CFSC) composed of a team of partners from four academic institutions and three community-based organizations representing a total of eight disciplines that included: community development and community organizing, community psychology, geography, nursing, nutritio…
Engagement for transformation: Value webs for local food system development
Public health, cooperatives, local regulation, and the development of modern milk policy: The Chicago milkshed, 1900–1940
Sustainability and Scale: US Milk-Market Orders as Relocalization Policy
There has been a recent wave of political and theoretical interest in localism and relocalization as a political strategy in resistance to the hegemonic power of globalization. Some geographers and other observers of spatial politics have been skeptical of these efforts, questioning the effectiveness and the effects of relocalization movements. In response, DuPuis and Goodman have argued for a 'reflexive localism' that takes a more pragmatic appr…
Taking food and agriculture studies to the streets: Community engagement, working across disciplines, and community change
Food sovereignty, urban food access, and food activism: Contemplating the connections through examples from Chicago
Ciclovìa in Chicago: A Strategy for Community Development to Improve Public Health
Ciclovìas create temporary spaces for physical activity by closing off streets to motorized traffic for short periods of time—typically a day at a time. In Chicago, these health promotion events are called “Open Streets” and follow a route through five diverse communities. We report findings for evaluation of 2008--2009 Open Streets events. The evaluation creates a framework for examining Ciclovìa outcomes and tracks attendance, participant chara…
Foodways of the urban poor
Exploring youth socio-spatial perceptions of higher education landscapes through sketch maps
Previous research on broadening participation in higher education and Science Technology Engineering and Math has inadequately examined the role of place. This article explores the socio-spatial perceptions of youth of a college campus and changes in perceptions youth experience during their transition from being a university neighbor to becoming part of a university community. This study uses sketch maps and qualitative Geographic Information Sy…
Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City
Urban foodscape trends: Disparities in healthy food access in Chicago, 2007–2014
Community geography: Toward a disciplinary framework
Community geography is a growing subfield that provides a framework for relevant and engaged scholarship. In this paper, we define community geography as a form of research praxis, one that involves academic and public scholars with the goal of co-produced and mutually-beneficial knowledge. Community geography draws from a pragmatist model of inquiry, one that views communities as emergent through a recursive process of problem definition and soc…
Envisioning radical food geographies: Shared learning and praxis through the Food Justice Scholar-Activist/Activist-Scholar Community of Practice
Food justice scholarship and activism have coevolved and at times been intertwined over past decades. In some instances, there are clear distinctions between “scholarly” and “activist” activities. However, individuals, groups, and actions often take on characteristics of both, producing knowledge at multiple sociopolitical scales. Recognizing and building upon these dynamics is important for strengthening food justice work. This is especially sal…
Doing community geography
Community Geography offers researchers, community groups, and students opportunities to engage in action oriented applied geographical research. Creating and sustaining these research programs can be challenging, programs can involve many partners from both academic and the community, have different goals and purposes, and utilize a variety of methods to perform research. In this paper we offer a framework of three primary overarching principles …
Funding a Peoples' Food Justice Geography? Community-Academic Collaborations as Geographic Praxis
Community–academic collaborations that value experience-based knowledge alongside institutional ways of knowing have long been of interest in geography. In 1984, Harvey proposed a “peoples’ geography” that would integrate nonacademic knowledge into the field, increasing geography’s potential to help create a just world. Recent community–academic food justice collaborations have taken up this proposition through initiatives addressing issues from …
Governing the nurturing city: The uneven enforcement of street food vending regulations
International audience
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Geography (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (11 works) · Social science (11 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (9 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Food security (7 works)