Course Information
Course title
Geographies of Globalization : a Critical Introduction 
Semester
102-2 
Designated for
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE  DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY  
Instructor
HUNG, PO-YI 
Curriculum Number
Geog5089 
Curriculum Identity Number
228 U0690 
Class
 
Credits
Full/Half
Yr.
Half 
Required/
Elective
Elective 
Time
Thursday 6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
Remarks
The upper limit of the number of students: 15. 
Ceiba Web Server
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1022Geog5089_ 
Course introduction video
 
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Course Syllabus
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Course Description

本課程以「食物與農業地理學」為討論核心。

曾想過你吃的食物從那裡來,又怎麼到你的餐盤裡?到底是誰在生產我們吃的東西,他們的農田農園長什麼樣子?為什麼有人總花大把銀子享有空運到地的食材,同時卻還有那麼多人口處於飢餓狀態?手中那杯公平貿易的咖啡是否真的改善當地小農的生計?我們是否應該為了生態環境而成為有機消費者,甚至是素食主意者?為什麼農民時常是社會上被剝削的群體,社會正義面對什麼挑戰?在當前主流社會與環境論述背後的食物生產消費,究竟誰是獲益者?誰又是權益受損者?更重要的,人們如何思考解決上述的問題?如果你對以上問題感興趣,那麼歡迎你加入本課程。

從「食物與農業地理學」的角度出發,我們把焦點放在「農食系統」(agri-food system)的討論,試圖理解從產地到餐桌(以及餐桌回到產地)過程中有關永續性、社會正義等等的議題。更具體的說,我們著重對農作食物系統的社會脈絡研究,並強調食物與農業系統與資本主義經濟體系之間的探究。我們也要反思農作食物系統反映出的社會性,因此課程主軸也在於呈現食物與農業系統本身和生產者生計、社區重組與環境之間的動態關係。另外,本課程也會在不同學科之間找尋相關對話,主要包括人類學、地理學與社會學對農作食物系統的最前沿研究。
 

Course Objective
在全球環境變遷的趨勢下,人類生存仰賴的糧食生產、食品安全與農業生態系統等議題儼然成為各方關注的焦點之一。在這樣的發展趨勢下,有關食物與農業地理學的討論,除了探尋自然與社會的互動之外,也漸次同時把焦點擺在環境變遷下的糧食生產與農業體系;因此,關於食物與農業系統的探索,已成為當前人文地理學研究最前沿的走向之一。

本課程的學習目標有:
1. 對社會和農食系統的組成關係有新的關懷和了解
2. 從多元的觀點中理解食物與農業議題的複雜性
3. 發展對當前食物與農業議題的批判性觀點
4. 挑戰原先自己對農業、食物與社會三者關係的定見
5. 訓練發現問題與形成問題意識的能力
6. 訓練表達與書寫自身觀點的能力
 
Course Requirement
1. 課堂參與(10%)
2. 每週書面心得與提問(30%)
3. 主持討論二次(20%)
4. 期末報告(40%:口頭呈現10%+書面報告30%)


附註:
每週書面心得與提問,於作業區繳交檔案格式。範例(W1_學號) 
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
 
Office Hours
 
Designated reading
第一週(2/20):課程介紹

第二週(2/27):永續農業與食物系統
Friedmann, Harriet. 1999. Circles of growing and eating: the political ecology
of food and agriculture. In Food in global history, pp. 33-57, edited by R.
Grew. Boulder: Westview Press.
Pretty, Jules N. 1995. Participatory learning for sustainable agriculture. World
Development 23 (8):1247-63.

第三週(3/06):族群、性別、階級與食物什麼關係?
White, Monica M. 2011. D-Town farm: African American resistance to food
insecurity and the transformation of Detroit. Environmental Practice 13 (4):406-
417.
Guthman, Julie. 2008. “If they only knew”: color blindness and universalism in
California alternative food institutions. The Professional Geographer 60
(3):387-97.
Cunningham, Brent. 2010. Food fighter: Grist’s Tom Philpott on why class needs
to be a part of the food debate. Columbia Journalism Review, 4 May. Available
from http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/ food_fighter.php?page=all.

第四週(3/13):家庭農場到哪兒去了?
Lyson, Thomas A. 2004. Chapter 1 “Introduction: community agriculture and local
food systems” & Chapter 2 “From subsistence to production: how American
agriculture was made modern.” Pp. 1-7 & 8-29, Civic agriculture: reconnecting
farm, food, and community. Medford, Massachusetts: Tufts University Press.

第五週(3/20):糧產夠不夠?飢餓議題再思考
Lappe, Frances Moore, Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset, and Luis Esparza. 1999.
Introduction “Beyond guilt and fear” and Chapter 1 “Myth 1: There’s Simply Not
Enough Food.” Pp. 1-14 in World hunger: twelve myths. New York: Grove Press.
Poppendieck, Janet. 2000. Want amid plenty: from hunger to inequality. In Hungry
for profit: the agribusiness threat to farmers, food, and the environment, pp.
189-202, edited by F. Magdoff, J.B. Foster and F.H. Buttel. New York: Monthly
Review Press.


第六週(3/27):我們應該吃肉嗎?一個現代畜牧農業的問題
Jones, T. Foster. 2010. Poultry in motion. Costco Connection 25(7): 22-24.
Available from http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/201007?
pg=25&pm=2&fs=1#pg25.
Klein, Ezra. 2009. The meat of the problem. The Washington Post, 29 July.
Available from http:// www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072800390.html.
Bittman, Mark. 2011. Hey chef! Get with the program. The New York Times, 25
October. Available from http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/hey-chef-
get-with-the-program/

第七週(4/3):溫書假不上課

第八週(4/10):生物科技誰獲益?
Barlett, Donald L., and James B. Steele. 2008. Monsanto’s harvest of fear.
Vanity Fair, May. Available from
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805.
Wallis, Darren. 2008. Letter from Monsanto to Jim Steele, Contributing Editor,
Vanity Fair. St. Louis, Missouri, 14 March. Available from
http://www.democracynow.org/pdf/MonsantoResponse.pdf.
Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association. 2011. Farmers defend right to
protect themselves fromMonsanto patents. 13 August. Available from:
http://www.osgata.org/farmers-defend-right-to-protect-themselves-from-monsanto-
patents .
Strom, Stephanie. 2012. Uneasy allies in the grocery aisle. The New York Times,
13 September. Available
fromhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/business/california-referendum-pits-
organic-brands-against-corporate-parents.html .
Millstone, Erik, and Tim Lang. 2003. Map 15 “Genetic modification” and Map 16
“Genetically modifiedcrops.” Pp. 42-43 & 44-45 in The Penguin atlas of food. New
York: Penguin.

第九週(4/17):期中考(不考試之紀錄片賞析)

第十週(4/24):農民與食物生產勞工的正義�爭議?
Chavez, Cesar. 1993. Farm workers at risk. In Toxic struggles: the theory and
practice of environmental justice, pp. 163-70, edited by R. Hofrichter.
Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.
Brown, Sandy, and Christy Getz. 2011. Farmworker food insecurity and the
production of hunger in California. In Cultivating food justice: race, class,
and sustainability, edited by A. H. Alkon and J. Agyeman. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Martin, Philip. 2011. Could farms survive without illegal labor? The New York
Times, 18 August. Available
from:http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/17/could-farms-survive-
without-illegal- labor.
Smith, David M. 2000. Social justice. In The dictionary of human geography, pp.
754-758, edited by R.J. Johnston, D. Gregory, G. Pratt and M. Watts. Malden,
Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.


第十一週(5/1):食品安全:為誰?代價?
Galt, Ryan E. 2009. “It just goes to kill Ticos”: national market regulation and
the political ecology offarmers’ pesticide use in Costa Rica. Journal of
Political Ecology 16:1-33.
DeLind, Laura B., and Philip H. Howard. 2008. Safe at any scale? Food scares,
food regulation, and scaledalternatives. Agriculture and Human Values 25:301–17.

第十二週(5/8):食物的未來?政策與社會運動
Pollan, Michael. 2010. The food movement, rising. The New York Review of Books
57 (10):31-3.


第十三週(5/15):跨境公平食物貿易:公平嗎?
Martinez-Torres, Maria Elena, and Peter M. Rosset. 2010. La Via Campesina: the
birth and evolution of atransnational social movement. Journal of Peasant
Studies 37 (1):149-75.
Shreck, Aimee. 2008. Resistance, redistribution, and power in the fair trade
banana initiative. In The fight over food: producers, consumers, and activists
challenge the global food system, edited by W. Wright and G.
Middendorf.University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.

第十四週(5/22):有機農食系統是萬靈丹?爭議性與可能性
Halweil, Brian. 2006. Can organic farming feed us all? World Watch, May/June,
18-24.
Howard, Phil. 2012. Organic Processing Industry Structure. Available from
https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/organicindustry.html.
Badgley, Catherine, Jeremy Moghtader, Eileen Quintero, Emily Zakem, M. Jahi
Chappell, Katia Aviles-Vazquez, Andrea Samulon, and Ivette Perfecto. 2007.
Organic agriculture and the global food supply.Renewable Agriculture and Food
Systems 22 (02):86-108.

第十五週(5/29):在地食物與公民農業:邁向新的農食系統?
DuPuis, E. Melanie, and David Goodman. 2005. Should we go “home” to eat?: toward
a reflexive politicsof localism. Journal of Rural Studies 21 (3):359-71.
Lyson, Thomas A. 2004. Chapter 5 “Toward a civic agriculture,” Chapter 6 “Civic
agriculture andcommunity agricultural development,” and Chapter 7 "From
commodity agriculture to civicagriculture.” Pp. 61-83, 84-98, and 99-105 in
Civic agriculture: reconnecting farm, food, and community.Medford,
Massachusetts: Tufts University Press.

第十六週(6/5):野外實察:中橫梨山高山農業的美麗與哀愁

第十七週(6/12):期末口頭呈現

第十八週(6/19):期末口頭呈現+繳交期末書面報告
 
References
 
Grading
   
Progress
Week
Date
Topic
第1週
2/20  課程介紹 
第2週
2/27  永續農業與食物系統 
第3週
3/06  族群、性別、階級與食物什麼關係? 
第4週
3/13  食物生產與供應如何全球化?(食物的全球經濟學:從一片披薩講起, by Paul Trummer,洪清怡翻譯,衛城出版) 
第5週
3/20  糧產夠不夠?飢餓議題再思考 
第6週
3/27  "風土“( terroir)為何物?再思考食物與地方 
第7週
4/03  溫書假不上課 
第8週
4/10  黑心食品怎麼黑?(美味詐欺:黑心食品三百年,by Bee Wilson,周繼嵐翻譯,八旗文化出版) 
第9週
4/17  期中考不考試之紀錄片賞析 
第10週
4/24  農民與食物生產勞工的正義�爭議? 
第11週
5/01  食品安全:為誰?代價? 
第12週
5/08  食物的未來?(雜食者的兩難,by Michael Pollan,鄧子衿翻譯,大家出版) 
第13週
5/15  跨境公平食物貿易:公平嗎? 
第14週
5/22  有機農食系統是萬靈丹?爭議性與可能性 
第15週
5/29  在地食物與公民農業:邁向新的農食系統? 
第16週
6/05  野外實察:中橫梨山高山農業的美麗與哀愁 
第17週
6/12  期末口頭呈現 
第18週
6/19  期末口頭呈現+繳交書面報告