Full Circle Tomatoes
In this wonderful contribution to Foodforethought, Deborah Barndt shares her experience of returning to the community where she conducted research on women workers in the NAFTA food chain 10 years ago. A decade after beginning research on that project, the Spanish translation has just been released. Tangled Routes (Rutas Enmarañadas) explores the gender, race and class dimensions of working the North American tomato chain. Barndt's approach to the study of social science and popular education to include personal stories and photographs has encouraged the broadening of research methodology among her collaborators. Most importantly, the book itself has become a tool which the community can use - helping those whose stories the book is based on to see their own positions and helping them organize to challenge working and environmental conditions enmeshed in their work in export agriculture.
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