Dialogues on Food Geographies: towards Decolonisation?

With Agatha Herman & Rebecca Sandover

Through seminars, reading groups, outdoor learning, food tasting and other creative activities, participants will be invited to engage with key resources which will aid collective learning. The research will open fundamental questions including, what does it mean to decolonise diets? What are the historic roots of contemporary inequalities and trauma relating to food? What are the impacts of corporate food systems on marginalised and vulnerable groups in Britain? Why is the experience of black and minority ethnic populations neglected in research on food poverty and diet-related ill-health in Britain? How do Britain’s food geographies interact with food geographies elsewhere and what are the implications (through for example, trade, aid, research and investment)? What methods could be used to address these questions and what teaching resources are needed to start decolonising food geographies curricula?