Erica Zurawski

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow within Dr. Susanne Freidberg's Emergent Imaginaries of Regenerative Agriculture project. As a transdisciplinary scholar, my work spans the fields of critical food studies, feminist geographies, science and technology studies (STS), and urban and environmental sociology. Broadly, my research examines the articulations of food (in)equity, uneven development, colonial environmental imaginaries, and law and policy. In my most recent project, I trace the assorted genealogies of the food desert metaphor – from Glasgow, Scotland to the United States writ large - to stay with the trouble the metaphor has caused so as to understand the conjuncture from whence it comes, how it reflects and inherits specific worldviews, values, and histories as it emerges and proliferates.

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Contact

Erica.Zurawski@dartmouth.edu
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Education

  • B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • J.D. University of Wisconsin Law School
  • M.A. University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz

Selected Publications

  • Zurawski, Erica. (article accepted and forthcoming in 2025). Food Desert Imperialism: The Colonial Legacy of the Food Desert Metaphor. Environmental Humanities.

    Zurawski, Erica and Higgins, Alanna K. (forthcoming in August 2024). Radical Legal Geographies of Food Desert Spatial Imaginaries, in Radical Food Geographies: Power, Knowledge and Resistance. Bristol University Press.

    Zurawski, Erica. 2023. Materializing the Metaphor: Theorizing the Food Desert as a Socio-Spatial-Legal Instrument in the Production of Space. Human Geography 16(3).

    Guthman, Julie and Zurawski, Erica. 2020. "If I need to put more armor on, I can't carry more guns": the collective action problem of breeding for productivity in the California strawberry industry. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 26(1).