Visiting
Scholar
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Minnesota
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Minnesota
Publications
forthcoming. Race in the study of food. accepted at Progress in Human Geography pre-proof PDF2009. Discussant comments on Michael Brown's Urban Geography Plenary Lecture, "Public health as urban politics, urban geography: venereal biopower in Seattle, 1943-1983, Urban Geography 30(1):30-35. pdf
2009. The embodied politics of pain in US anti-racism, ACME: An E Journal for Critical Geographies 8(1):18-45 pdf
2009. Research Priorities: Sociology and Climate Change, paper prepared for NSF workshop, Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change, Arlington, VA May 30-31, 2008. full report
2008. Thinking race through feminist corporeal theory: divisions and intimacies at the Minneapolis Farmers' Market. Social and Cultural Geography 9(8):849-869 pdf
2007. Whiteness, space and alternative food practice. Geoforum 38(3):520-533. Chosen to be part of the virtual special issue celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Geoforum, which featured 26 papers which demonstrate the excellence and breadth of scholarship. Pdf
2006. Anti-racist practice and the work of community food organizations. Antipode 38(2):327-349. Pdf
2004. Polar bears and energy efficient light bulbs—strategies to bring climate change home. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22(3):413–438. Pdf
2004. Consumer citizens and the Cities for Climate Protection campaign. Environment and Planning A, 36(5):763-782. PdfPublications with Colleagues
2010. Cook, Ian et al. Food geographies: afters. Progress in Human Geography, online first.2009. Slocum, Rachel, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Arun Saldanha. Local food and public space: a study of Minneapolis Farmers’ Market customers’ perceptions and practices, CURA Reporter, summer. pdf
2009. Slocum, Rachel and Susan J. Smith. Introduction. Author meets critics for
Angel, David et al. 1998. The drivers of greenhouse gas emissions: what do we learn from local case studies? Local Environment 3(3):263-277.
Slocum, Rachel and Barbara Thomas-Slayter. 1995: Participation, empowerment and sustainable development in Power, process and participation: tools for change. Rachel Slocum et al. (eds.). London, Intermediate Technology Publications: 3-8.
Rocheleau, Dianne and Rachel Slocum. 1995. Participation in context: key questions in Power, process and participation: tools for change. Rachel Slocum et al. (eds.). London, ITP: 17-30. pdf
Book Reviews
forthcoming. Review of Jackson P (ed.) (2009) Changing families, changing food. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire UK for Progress in Human Geography2009. Review of Morgan, K., Marsden, T., and Murdoch, J. 2006. Worlds of food: Place, power, and provenance in the food chain. Oxford University Press, Oxford and Blay-Palmer A. 2008. Food Fears: From Industrial to Sustainable Food Systems. Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants for Environment and Planning A.
2008. Review of Kay Anderson's Race and the crisis of humanism. Routledge, London for Gender, Place and Culture, 15(1):88-90 pdf
2003. Review of Portney, Kenneth. 2003. Taking sustainable cities seriously: economic development, the environment and quality of life in American cities. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, for Environment and Planning A 35(10):1895.
2000. Review of Low, Nicholas et al. (eds.). 2000. Consuming cities: the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio Declaration. London, Routledge, for Environment and Planning A 32(6):1138.