Communication and power: A review of Organizing Eating

Abstract

First paragraph:

Organizing Eating: Communicating for Equity Across U.S. Food Systems draws together recent research from scholars on organization and communication exploring how to move toward food justice, as edited by Sarah E. Dempsey. It is not coincidental that this book was published in 2023, just a few years after the COVID-19 pan­demic. As Dempsey explains in the opening chap­ter, COVID-19 epitomizes the ways intersectional systematic forms of oppression threaten people’s ability to access food, a basic human right. How­ever, exerting power through food did not just start during COVID-19: from post-Emancipation to New Deal legislation, the American legal system uses food both as a mechanism and outcome of power. The authors in this collection illustrate that U.S. society, as a whole, needs to bring equity to the conversation around food, organization, and power to dynamically reorganize our food system. . . .