Food Mapping for Justice: Reflections on Mapping and Outcomes
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 670
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The purpose of this issue is to advance discussion about the increasing popularity of food mapping as a method as well as approach to food justice. That is, as an approach to correcting local food-related inequities and their consequences in a given geographical area. Used more and more in institutional planning, a critical awareness of the history and challenges, as well as inherent power dynamics, present when mapping is vital. From the historically entrenched method of deep mapping, to the political insights of critical cartography, to the policy goals of participatory food asset mapping, to easily App-adaptable GIS options – attempts to map our foodscape are increasing and the ways we can do so are multiplying.
Climate change effects continue to stress the need for food system reform. These disruptions, and the socio-economic fall-out from them, will continue to impact the precarious global supply chains we rely on. Re-localizing, or simply better understanding a place-specific food system, could be key to ensuring greater food security in the future. Food mapping seems favoured as part of the solution, but its practical effectiveness needs to be critically analyzed. As mapping projects have increased over the past decades, it is now indisputable that we can map. However, the question lingers, to what end?
This issue is open to submissions by emerging scholars and welcomes contributions by those thinking about mapping historically, non-physical maps (e.g. carried within oral history), power dynamics related to mapping, various mapping methodologies, and the politics of mapping. We hope to advance reflective discsusions about why we map what we do, what we have failed to (or cannot) map, and how we can ensure the effectiveness of our mapping exercises so that they may contribute to greater food justice and security for future generations.
Dr. Janette Bulkan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food mapping
- food security
- participatory research methods
- food security planning
- foodscapes
- critical cartography
- deep mapping
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