Abstract

Margaret Atwood’s recent dystopian fiction depicts a troubled food system that calls into question our own patterns of production and consumption. These matters of food politics provide fertile ground for a pedagogy that is both critical and grounded in real-world pragmatics.

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Pedagogy
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2014-10-01
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10.1215/15314200-2715814
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