[Wamvan] Fwd: This month at Briarpatch: Fair trade & empire, Canada's food movement, Editorial shake-ups

[Tami Starlight]

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Date: Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Subject: This month at Briarpatch: Fair trade & empire, Canada's food
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     a sneak peek at Sept/Oct content, plus some exciting changes at *
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              This month at *Briarpatch*!
 A sneak peek at our next issue, "Decolonizing Food" We'd like to offer you
a preview of our September/October issue! Currently on its way to mailboxes
and doorsteps, this issue is ripe with sharp critiques and inspiring
analyses on the quest for more sustainable food and agricultural systems.
Here are a couple of highlights:

Fair trade and empire: an anti-capitalist critique of the fair trade
movement<http://briarpatchmagazine.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac7049ebb13ac6de18f9148a4&id=e2138ec0a2&e=7b2e1b8487>
While fair trade does reduce the number of intermediaries in the supply
chain as compared to the free trade system, it also serves to reinforce
racist and colonial distinctions between the poor Global South farmer and
the benevolent Global North consumer. Although it may channel slightly more
income into agricultural communities, it ultimately fails to address the
colonial capitalist structures that produce the impoverishment of farmers on
an ongoing basis.

*Propagating the food movement:* a uniquely decentralized and mighty
movement<http://briarpatchmagazine.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ac7049ebb13ac6de18f9148a4&id=08f3d5102b&e=7b2e1b8487>
Community-based food researcher Charles Z. Levkoe invokes the rhizome as a
metaphor for the Canadian food movement – a decentralized network of
diverse, self-organizing, interconnected initiatives with no identifiable
beginning or end. Still not convinced of the depth and breadth of Canada's
food movement? Check out our compilation of 20 innovative and inspiring food
initiatives<http://briarpatchmagazine.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ac7049ebb13ac6de18f9148a4&id=43612b229b&e=7b2e1b8487>from
across the country.

 Exciting changes at *Briarpatch*! In an effort to continue to improve the
timeliness and quality of *Briarpatch* content, we are excited to announce a
shift away from themed issues. The shift began with our unthemed July/August
2011 issue, which received overwhelmingly positive feedback and
unprecedented online readership. We expect that releasing ourselves from the
constraints of adhering to specific themes will enable us to respond more
meaningfully to current events and pressing issues as they arise, and to
more actively seek out the highest-quality and most relevant content for
every issue. We have three unthemed issues planned for 2012 (see our
submissions
guidelines<http://briarpatchmagazine.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ac7049ebb13ac6de18f9148a4&id=25bc44280f&e=7b2e1b8487>for
the full 2012 editorial schedule) and look forward to your feedback
about this change.

We'd like to welcome *Rachel Penner De Waal* and *Victoria Abraham* to our
editorial team. An experienced word nerd and grammar enthusiast who has been
volunteering with *Briarpatch *for two years, Rachel is now our dedicated
copy editor. Victoria Abraham, a journalism student at Carleton University,
has been volunteering with *Briarpatch* for the past four months and is now
our dedicated fact-checker. The two join longtime *Briarpatch* cracker-jack
proofreader Kim Kovacs as our critical final frontier in the editorial
process.
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