I was asked by several folks at the 2013 APRetreat what I have been and would be reading. These are the books I hope to read over the summer:
[1] Carolyn Steel’s, Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives. [2] The Shallows by Nicholas Carr; [3] John Dewey’s, Art As Experience; [4] John Coltrane and Black America’s Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music by Leonard Brown; [5] The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord; [6] John Abramson’s, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine; [7] Technopoly, by Neil Postman; [8] Eat To Live by Joel Fuhrman; [9] Living in the Labyrinth of Technology, by Willem H. Vanderburg; [10] Elizabeth Abbott’s, Sugar; [11] Driven To Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey; [12] The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen; [13] al-Ittiqan fi ‘Ulum al-Qur’an by al-Suyuti; [14] Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability, edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman.
Extras
- A video by Carolyn Steel explaining her book, Hungry City.
- A short podcast discussing Cultivating Food Justice.
- A short podcast discussing Technopoly and other titles.
- Another short podcast discussing Technopoly.
- A video of Nicholas Carr discussing The Shallows.
- A video of Will Allen discussing some principles from The Good Food Revolution.