ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how a communicative examination of power and resistance can help us critically engage the global food system. The cross-cutting nodes mark emerging trends in global food systems communication research, and also signal critical gaps that future environmental communication (EC) scholarship can address. The intimate relationship between land and food has been explored by a number of EC scholars, including how both evoke complex feelings of home. We take stock of four nodes around which scholars in our field have explored power and resistance in the global food system: land, policy, property, and labor. Tensions of knowledge and power in the food system have galvanized EC scholars’ interest in the design, execution, and implications of food-related policy. The politics of property traverse contexts, including corporeal categories like real estate and infrastructure, to incorporeal ones like patents and trademarks. Internationalizing and globalizing EC scholarship is integral to moving food systems communication forward.
