Julie Guthman on Food, Health and Livelihood

February 25, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Architecture Auditorium

Professor Julie Guthman of the University of California at Santa Cruz is the author of award winning books: Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California (2004, reprinted 2014); and Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice and the Limits of Capitalism (2011).

She has critically examined the race, class, and body politics of "alternative" food and is now researching the effects of pesticide regulation in California's strawberry industry.

She will present her current work in a lecture entitled "Lives versus Livelihoods? Fumigants, Farmworkers, and Biopolitics in California’s Strawberry Industry."


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free and open to the public

Event Sponsor
Geography, Mānoa Campus

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Krisna Suryanata, (808) 956-7384, krisnawa@hawaii.edu

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