Building Communities of Care for Food Systems Change

SEI Postdoctoral Fellow on the FoodLab Sydney project, Kate Johnston, explores the potential of care to address our broken food systems and inform our approach to designing food systems of the future. Care is not usually associated with our food system, which tends to be “reduced to neutral (or amoral) transactional relationships.” (Giraud 2021). Yet it is worth considering what our food system might look like if a care ethic was central. A care ethic promotes collaboration, peer support and generosity, creating an alternative to an individualistic and aggressive marketplace. It also recognises the social context of food. Find out more about this event hereTimestamps 00:50 Introduction and Acknowledgement of Country - Alana Mann 06:40 Transforming Food Systems with Care - Kate Johnston 38:30 An Ideological Embrace of Care 44:55 Growing Locally and Consuming Locally 49:00 Ethics of Exclusion in Food Systems 52:40 The Mental and Social Benefits of Connecting to the Land Speakers Dr Kate Johnston, Sydney Environment Institute Associate Professor Alana Mann (Chair), Department of Media and Communications Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.