Graduation Year
Spring 2013
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Environmental Analysis
Reader 1
Nancy Neiman-Auerbach
Reader 2
Susan Phillips
Reader 3
Brinda Sarathy
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
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© 2013 Caitlin M. Watkins
Abstract
This Senior Thesis in Environmental Analysis seeks to explore the ways in which certain food-oriented programs for incarcerated women and women on parole critically resist the Prison Industrial Complex and the Industrial Food System by securing social and ecological equity through the acquisition of food justice. It focuses on three case studies: the Crossroads’ Meatless Mondays program, Fallen Fruit from Rising Women: A Crossroads Social Enterprise, and Cultivating Dreams Prison Garden Project: An Organic Garden for Women in Prison. Each project utilizes food as a tool to build community, provide valuable skill sets of cooking and gardening, and educate women about the social, environmental and political implications of the Industrial Food System. Overall, the goal of this thesis is to prove the necessity of food justice programs in the criminal justice system in counteracting the disenfranchisement of certain populations that are continuously discriminated against in the industrialized systems of prison and food.
Recommended Citation
Watkins, Caitlin M., "Cultivating Resistance: Food Justice in the Criminal Justice System" (2013). Pitzer Senior Theses. 32.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/32
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