Political Ecology of Education

<p><em style=color: rgba(105 105 105 1)>The Political Ecology of Education </em><span style=color: rgba(105 105 105 1)>examines the opportunities for and constraints on advancing food sovereignty in the 17 de Abril settlement a community born out of a massacre of landless Brazilian workers in 1996. Based on immersive fieldwork over the course of seven years David Meek makes the provocative argument that critical forms of food systems education are integral to agrarian social movements' survival. While the need for critical approaches is especially immediate in the Amazon Meek's study speaks to the burgeoning attention to food systems education at various educational levels worldwide from primary to postgraduate programs. His book calls us to rethink the politics of the possible within these pedagogies.</span></p>