{"id":286,"date":"2016-05-01T17:24:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T21:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/?p=286"},"modified":"2016-05-13T12:50:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:50:41","slug":"sacha-pfeufer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/2016\/05\/01\/sacha-pfeufer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Elusive Inclusive:&#8221; discovering historical legacies of domination embedded in &#8216;transformative&#8217; work on an urban farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her essay, <em>The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces,<\/em> Margaret Ramirez asks, &#8220;Is the form of \u201cjustice\u201d that food and other social justice activists practice simply a politics of inclusion that upholds power asymmetries stemming from the plantation?&#8221; This video explores the importance of considering\u00a0how the\u00a0differing subjectivities of &#8220;food justice\u00a0activists&#8221; manifest in different understandings of, and approaches to\u00a0their work. Looking at\u00a0The Food Project (TFP)&#8211; a\u00a0white urban agriculture organization situated in Boston&#8217;s\u00a0primarily black neighborhood of Dudley&#8211; and calling on interviews\u00a0conducted with Food Project staff and volunteers, as well as the\u00a0staff of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), a community controlled development nonprofit, I seek to understand how power asymmetries produced through\u00a0historical legacies of domination and subjugation are\u00a0being reproduced through the work of TFP despite their best efforts to create an inclusive and transformative space.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SuslQvLy5l4&#038;feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her essay, The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces, Margaret Ramirez asks, &#8220;Is the form of \u201cjustice\u201d that food and other social justice activists practice simply a politics of inclusion that upholds power asymmetries stemming from the plantation?&#8221; This video explores the importance of considering\u00a0how the\u00a0differing subjectivities of &#8220;food justice\u00a0activists&#8221; manifest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81953],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/perspectives-on-vassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}