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UA Undergrads co-authors of freshly published book chapters

March 4, 2026

...including several Food Studies majors!

books
 
Bellante, L., Carney, M. , Ibarra, D., Jäger, M.B., Ruiz, N., Rodriguez, C., Jodie, T. , Brown, K. , Islam,R. , Khalsa, A. (2025). Disrupting the Narrative: Youth Storytelling for Food Justice. In A.H. Alkon &J. Agyeman (Eds.), Nurturing Food Justice: Expansive and Intersectional Visions, MIT Press.
 
Abstract: The “Future of Food and Social Justice Youth Storytelling Project,” or FFSJ (2022–2023), was developed in part as a response to present debates related to food and agriculture in the southern Arizona borderlands region. The project foregrounds youth storytelling and antiracist, feminist approaches to knowledge production. Uplifting the stories of young people experiencing and witnessing food injustice, FFSJ seeks to address systems of narrative erasure and to nourish a future of food justice (Reese 2019). Storytelling is mobilized as a tool to work against the ongoing enclosure of “Tucson’s Food Story” while also cultivating an “ethic of careful difference” that attends to harm and fosters a diversity of food narratives (Platts 2023). Aligned with this section’s theme of encounters, we offer storytelling as a tool to foment counterhegemonic encounters and shift how we think about, narrate, and attend to food justice challenges. This chapter, cocreated with FFSJ participants, reflects on our first year with the project.
 
Jodie, T., Pablo, J., Bellante, L., Carney, M. (2025). Disruption: Centering Native Youth Voices for Health and Healing in Arizona. In J. Hardin and E. Mendenhall (Eds.), Savoring Care: Flourishing with Diabetes Across Cultures, University of Toronto Press. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487565701 
 
Abstract: Savoring Care challenges conventional narratives about living with type 2 diabetes. A chronic condition defined by insulin resistance and radical transitions in lifestyle, type 2 diabetes care is infused with individual blame and attempts to foster biomedical control. This book moves the focus away from blame and stigma towards the ways people with this chronic illness foster care, resilience, and well-being in their daily lives. Rather than centring diabetes management solely on diet and personal responsibility, this book explores how individuals and communities support one another through shared meals, therapies, and other forms of practical care.