Food Justice and Narrative Ethics:Reading Stories for Ethical Awareness and Activism '18
内容
Reports in the national media often juxtapose stories of famine and food scarcity against reports on the rising rates of morbid obesity. Learning to See Food Justice delves into these contrasting stories and explores how food justice impacts human lives. Using the philosophy of narrative ethics, Beth A. Dixon examines food justice narratives to illustrate how to correct the ethical damage created by these stories in the media. The narratives detail the nature of oppression and structural injustice, and show how these conditions constrain choices, truncate moral agency, and limit opportunities to live well. With material from the media, food and farming memoirs, and scholarly ethnographies, Dixon reveals how different food narratives are constructed and enable identification of just solutions to issues surrounding food insecurity, farm labor, and the lived experience of obesity. Drawing on Aristotle's concept of ethical perception, Dixon demonstrates how we can use narratives to enhance our understanding and ethical competence about injustice in relation to food.