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The Pragmatic Pyramid: John Dewey on Gardening and Food Security. Shane J. Ralston, Ph.D. Penn State University-Hazleton. Outline of the Paper. Background on Dewey and gardening How we might secure our food system
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The Pragmatic Pyramid:John Dewey on Gardening and Food Security Shane J. Ralston, Ph.D. Penn State University-Hazleton
Outline of the Paper • Background on Dewey and gardening • How we might secure our food system • Presentation of five narratives about gardening/food justice and related problems (esp. with the last three) • Conclusion: a tentative pragmatist/Deweyan model of food security – a Pragmatic Pyramid
Dewey on Gardening Pedagogy and Politics • Education • Laboratory School at the University of Chicago • Alice Waters’ Edible Schoolyard Project (U.S.) • Alexander Kitchen Garden Program (Australia) • Politics • New immigrants/nativism/identity • Community gardening • Guerrilla gardening • Community • Communication/common • Publics/“civic turn”/dynamic group pluralism • Hilda Kurtz, Mary Beth Pudup
Securing our Food System • What is a food system? • What is the food movement? • What is food insecurity? • What is food justice? • The changing food security agenda • Stage 1: Global food security • Stage 2: Community food security • Stage 3: Glocal food security
Five Gardening/Food Justice Narratives • Narrative # 1: Fighting the good fight against the Neoliberal establishment • Narrative # 2: Keeping the multinational food companies out of our gardens! • Narrative #3: Greedy gardeners and a looming ecological crisis • Narrative # 4: Class and race-based paternalism in the food movement • Narrative # 5: Food movement activism and eating disorders