Growing Hope
Narratives of Food Justice

Growing Hope explores food justice narratives as part of a larger story about creating a better and more equitable future.

Alexa Weik von Mossner (Author)

9781009500579, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 February 2025

90 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm, 0.268 kg

Growing Hope takes a closer look at how such narratives can carry the promise of a better future in the face of grim realities. It brings together two kinds of narratives that are rarely considered in conjunction: stories about urban community gardening and stories about vegan food justice. It shows that there is much common ground between these movements and that the stories told by them are worth exploring as part of a larger narrative about creating a better and more equitable future. In the United States, this is especially true for the stories told by and about people of color and their historically marginalized communities. Employing an econarratological approach informed by critical food studies, environmental justice ecocriticism, and transmedia studies, Growing Hope explores a selection of narratives about people who fight against food injustice and the ideologies sustaining it: stories about defiant gardening and culinary self-empowerment.

Introduction: GROW: visions of defiant gardening
1. Narrating resistance
2. Projecting resilience EAT: narrating vegan food justice
3. Decolonizing veganism
4. Visceralizing food justice afterword: toward real food Utopias
References.

Subject Areas: Literary theory [DSA]