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Tisch Library Undergraduate Research Award Winner, 2017. Through an interdisciplinary ethnography, I seek to show the mobilization of the food desert discourse to be a dynamic rather than static process of mapping and re-mapping space and dialogue. I argue that the production and circulation of food access maps has helped to depoliticize what was once seen as a politically radical method of ... read morerepresenting historically constructed structural violence. Through the creation, circulation, and remaking of these maps, mappers and planners have legitimized a technocratic framing around this topic. Although counter narratives demonstrate the inconsistencies within this discourse, mappers construct a-political rationalizations and hierarchies of dialogue around the maps in order to prefigure these interactions and discount alternative ways of positioning urban food access that do not fit within the projects’ modern timelines of progress through food in the city. These findings warrant a reflection among those in the new field of food justice professionals to think critically about our use of food within work towards justice.read less
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