Publications

Under review. Introduction in Geographies of race and food: fields, bodies, markets. R. Slocum and A. Saldanha eds. Durham, Duke University Press, New Ecologies for the 21st Century.

2011. Race in the study of food, Progress in Human Geography 35(3): 303-327. Online first, August 26 as doi:10.1177/0309132510378335 pre-proof PDF

2009. The embodied politics of pain in US anti-racism, ACME: An E Journal for Critical Geographies 8(1):18-45 pdf

2009. 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. 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. Pdf

Co-authored Publications

Under review. Slocum, Rachel and Saldanha, Arun (eds.). Geographies of race and food: fields, bodies, markets. Durham, Duke University Press, New Ecologies for the 21st Century.

2011. Slocum, Rachel, Jerry Shannon, Kirstin Valentine Cadieux, Matthew Beckman. 'Properly, with love, from scratch': Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. Radical History Review 110 (Spring):178-191 (special issue eds. Jeffrey Pilcher and Dan Bender)  abstract

2011. Cook, Ian et al.  Food geographies: Afters. Progress in Human Geography, 35(1):104-120

2009. Slocum, Rachel, Elisabeth Ellsworth, Arun Saldanha and Sandrine Zerbib. 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 Arun Saldanha’s Psychedelic white: goa trance and the viscosity of race. Social and Cultural Geography 10(4):499-500. pdf

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

2011. Review, Carolan, Michael. 2011. Embodied food politics. Ashgate, Aldershot, for Environment and Planning A

2010. Review of Jackson P (ed.) (2009) Changing families, changing food. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire UK for Progress in Human Geography

2009. 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.