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Food Security Pragmatism: Deweyan Insights on Gardening Narratives

Explore John Dewey's pragmatic approach to food security through narratives on gardening practices and food justice issues. Learn about Dewey's model for securing our food system and five narratives that highlight challenges and activism in food movements. Discover innovative programs like Alice Waters' Edible Schoolyard Project and the Alexander Kitchen Garden Program, reflecting the intersection of education and politics in community gardening. Delve into the changing food security agenda and stages of global, community, and glocal food security.

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Food Security Pragmatism: Deweyan Insights on Gardening Narratives

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  1. The Pragmatic Pyramid:John Dewey on Gardening and Food Security Shane J. Ralston, Ph.D. Penn State University-Hazleton

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Conclusion—a Pragmatic Pyramid

  7. Questions?

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