Taught By:
Emanuel Preciado
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Motivation to Teach Social Action:
I am new to Northern Arizona and NAU as a new faculty member. I have a background with community organizing and research around BIPOC urban farming and garden projects. I just developed a new course on urban food systems and would like to learn more about ways to integrate students into community research projects, particularly Indigenous Food Sovereignty projects with the local tribal nations in Northern Arizona. I have a community partner and would like to learn more about how to connect students with my research and community work. NAU is an HSI and serves a large Native student population, but there is a lack of BIPOC faculty in my department. I am the first Latinx professor in my department and I am seeking to create more opportunities for all students but specifically BIPOC and first generation students.
Course Description:
This course investigates the intersections of urban planning, food systems, and social justice, highlighting the policies, politics, and movements that influence food access, production, and sustainability. As emerging food planners, students will critically engage with food justice and food sovereignty movements, urban agroecology, placemaking, the role of immigrant farmworkers, street vending, community-based research, and the right to the city. Students will analyze case studies from cities in the global North and South to examine these topics through the lenses of race, class, gender, and justice.
