PERSPECTIVES ON Everyday Talk, Culture and Positionality

This podcast features two dynamic and unique experts in the realm of Geography and culture both of whom have REDEFINING PERSPECTIVES ON food and culture!  The focus here is on understanding the intersection between impacts on everyday talk and culture.  Both introduced the term positionality as a factor that impacts, culture and the systems that regulate them through an approach called kitchen table reflexivity – an exploration of an individual's positionality and its relationship to their research carried out through formal and informal conversations with others.

Dr. Ellen Kohl is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies currently at St. Mary's College in Maryland, with a specific interest in how multiple, intersecting forms of oppression impact the human-environment. In addition to Justice, nature, Policy and Urban Georgraphy, she has done extensive research into the social movement strategies that communities engage to create positive change.  

Dr. Priscilla McCutcheon is Assistant Professor of Georgraphy and Pan African Studies at the University of Kentucky, her primary research focus was on the intersection of agriculture/food, racial identity formation and religion.  In addition, her other research interest include Black georgraphies, Sustainable Agriculture, spirituality and religion.  For more information about The Sister's Perspective visit our website at http://TheSistersPerspective.com

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