Emily Frisan

Cultivating Cities: Gastrodevelopment, food, and heritage in Tucson, Arizona

Episode Five: Cultivating Cities: Gastrodevelopment, food, and heritage in Tucson, Arizona – Food for Thought with Emily Frisan

Food systems play a pivotal role in shaping cities, particularly within the United States by influencing environmental sustainability, resilience, waste reduction, and community well-being. In this episode, I’ll speak with Dr. Eden Kinkaid, a recent graduate from the Ph.D. program in Geography at the University of Arizona, who has positioned themselves as a critical human-environment geographer with diverse interests. Their dissertation actively engaged in researching issues related to agriculture and food systems in southern Arizona. Our conversation delves into the ways in which food culture and heritage can be harnessed as powerful tools for fostering growth in cities like Tucson.  Resources: The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification – https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295749280/the-16-taco/ UNESCO Creative Cities Network – https://www.unesco.org/en/creative-cities Learn more about their dissertation:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02723638.2023.2296763 https://www.shareable.net/cities_tufts/consuming-the-creative-city-with-eden-kinkaid/  Connect with Eden: https://sites.google.com/view/edenkinkaid  https://twitter.com/queergeog  https://twitter.com/WTFisGeography  Keep an eye out for Dr. Kinkaid’s article Consuming the Creative City: Gastrodevelopment in a UNESCO City of Gastronomy (forthcoming) in Urban Geography.

1. Episode Five: Cultivating Cities: Gastrodevelopment, food, and heritage in Tucson, Arizona 45:53
2. Episode Four: Hunger Exists in Every Zip Code 34:08
3. Episode Three: You Pay for Everything: Navigating the Culinary Landscape 23:09
4. Episode Two: Nourishing the Nation: Understanding Food Insecurity 46:29
5. The Introduction | Food for Thought with Emily Frisan 06:20

Join me for the fifth episode in “Food for Thought”! Food systems play a pivotal role in shaping cities, particularly within the United States by influencing environmental sustainability, resilience, waste reduction, and community well-being.

In this episode, I’ll speak with Dr. Eden Kinkaid, a recent graduate from the Ph.D. program in Geography at the University of Arizona, who has positioned themselves as a critical human-environment geographer with diverse interests. Their dissertation actively engaged in gastrodevelopment and researching issues related to agriculture and food systems in southern Arizona. Our conversation delves into the ways in which food culture and heritage can be harnessed as powerful tools for fostering growth in cities like Tucson. 

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Resources:

• The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification
• Learn more about their dissertation 
  • gastrodevelopment in a UNESCO creative city of gastronomy
  • Consuming the Creative City: Gastrodevelopment in a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy with Eden Kinkaid
• Connect with Eden:
  • https://sites.google.com/view/edenkinkaid
  • https://twitter.com/queergeog
  • https://twitter.com/WTFisGeography
• Keep an eye out for Dr. Kinkaid’s article Consuming the Creative City: Gastrodevelopment in a UNESCO City of Gastronomy (forthcoming) in Urban Geography.