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1. Rethinking the Structures of Academic Writing in the Times of Exacerbated Inequity: An Introduction

   10 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Sean Zwagerman, Kim M. Mitchell

   An introduction to the special issue for Rethinking the Structures of Academic Writing in the Times of Exacerbated Inequity. This paper presents a discussion of the inspiration for this special...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/8044/?v=1

2. Rotten asparagus and just-in-time workers: Canadian agricultural industry framing of farm labour and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic

   19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):

   By Anelyse Margaret Weiler, Evelyn Encalada Grez

   In early stages of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian farming industry expressed panic that travel restrictions could disrupt the arrival of migrant farmworkers from the Majority World. In...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7792/?v=1

3. Food system resilience during COVID-19: The role of local producers in rural Canada

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Kelli Weinkauf, Tracy Everitt

   Over the last 70 years, Canadian agriculture has shifted from many small farms that supplied local residents, to fewer large farms designed to maximize production, reduce cost, and target...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7761/?v=1

4. Growing local: Gardening for community food security, preliminary results

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Janet Music, Lisa Mullins, Sylvain Charlebois, Charlotte Large

   Home food gardening has seen a resurgence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents the preliminary findings from the first 6 months of a 22-month home food gardening study in...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7762/?v=1

5. Exploring collaboration within Edmonton's City Table on Household Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Alexa Rae Ferdinands, Oleg Lavriv, Mary Beckie, Maria Mayan

   During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been unprecedented attention and funding toward addressing household food insecurity (HFI) in Canada. In Edmonton, a virtual "City Table" was developed to...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7750/?v=1

6. Food system resilience tested: The impact of COVID-19 on a major node in North America’s produce supply chains

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Sarah Elton, Evan Fraser, Ruth Siew

   At the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, many warned that the resilience of the global, industrial food system would be tested. We conducted regular interviews in 2020 with key actors at the...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7749/?v=1

7. “Its smoke must make it blind” : Fire and a commitment to regeneration

   19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):

   By Charles Z. Levkoe, Alexia Moyer, Alyson Holland

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7506/?v=1

8. Next Year, Together: Covid-19 Rewrites a Ritual Meal

   19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Emily Reisman

   This commentary describes a virtual seder (the ceremonial Passover meal) as it is reformatted by Covid-19. Dwelling on a shift in the closing lines of the socially-distanced digital dinner from...

   https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7507/?v=1