Applying the Food-and-Language Model

This chapter revisits the language through-about-around-as model in order to examine food activism, specifically focusing on the ways in which some food activists use social interaction and semiotic mediation to frame and help resolve problems in the food system. Multisensuous discourses about food and interactions around food are seen to forge food values that nourish these food change movements. Additionally, engaged social research about food and language is understood not only to enrich our understanding and experience of this culturally diverse world, but also to improve the participation of others in the food-and-language riches of the world. The vignettes explore food (inter)activism in a college classroom and an urban neighborhood.