

Alana Mann is Chair of Media & Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a key researcher at the University’s Sydney Environment Institute. She is also a Chief Investigator on the project FoodLab Sydney with partners including the City of Sydney and FoodLab Detroit. Her research focuses on the communicative dimensions of citizen engagement, participation, and collection action in food systems, planning and governance. She has written two books, her most recent Voice and Participation in Global Food Politics, published in 2019, and Global Activism in Food Politics: Power Shift, in 2014.
During our conversation, we talked about the food sovereignty movement and its emergence in Latin-America, agroecology as a pathway towards sustainable food systems and the importance of politicising our food consumption.
References mentioned during the episode include:
- Alana Mann, Voice and participation in Global Food Politics
- Alana Mann, Global activism in food politics: power shift
- Christopher Mayes, Unsettling food politics
- Bill Gammage, The biggest estate on Earth: how Aborigines made Australia
- Charles Massy, Call of the Reed Warbler: a new agriculture, a new Earth
- Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics
- Anna Tsing, The mushroom at the end of the world
- Rachel Carsen, Silent spring and Under the sea wind
- Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu
- Antonio Roman Alcala, Looking to food sovereignty movement for post-growth theory
- Philipp McMichael, Global development and the corporate food regime
24 episodios
Alana Mann is Chair of Media & Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a key researcher at the University’s Sydney Environment Institute. She is also a Chief Investigator on the project FoodLab Sydney with partners including the City of Sydney and FoodLab Detroit. Her research focuses on the communicative dimensions of citizen engagement, participation, and collection action in food systems, planning and governance. She has written two books, her most recent Voice and Participation in Global Food Politics, published in 2019, and Global Activism in Food Politics: Power Shift, in 2014.
During our conversation, we talked about the food sovereignty movement and its emergence in Latin-America, agroecology as a pathway towards sustainable food systems and the importance of politicising our food consumption.
References mentioned during the episode include:
- Alana Mann, Voice and participation in Global Food Politics
- Alana Mann, Global activism in food politics: power shift
- Christopher Mayes, Unsettling food politics
- Bill Gammage, The biggest estate on Earth: how Aborigines made Australia
- Charles Massy, Call of the Reed Warbler: a new agriculture, a new Earth
- Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics
- Anna Tsing, The mushroom at the end of the world
- Rachel Carsen, Silent spring and Under the sea wind
- Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu
- Antonio Roman Alcala, Looking to food sovereignty movement for post-growth theory
- Philipp McMichael, Global development and the corporate food regime
24 episodios
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