Kristin Reynolds

Kristin Reynolds is a critical food geographer with research focus in the US and France. Her scholarship and activism focus on informing the creation of socially just food systems in urban and rural spaces.

Kristin Reynolds is currently Chair of Food Studies at The New School in New York City, where she has taught since 2010. She is also Affiliated Faculty at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice; Associate Research Fellow at the European School of Political and Social Sciences, Université Catholique de Lille; and is regularly a visiting faculty at universities in France. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography and M.S. in International Agricultural Development from the University of California, Davis.

The project

Title: Comprendre et agir contre les inégalités en France liées à l’identité ethno-raciale chez les travailleurs agricoles. Quels apports de la « radical food geography » ?

Selection of publications

Books

• Hammelman, C., Levkoe, C., and Reynolds, K., eds. (Equal authorship.) (In-Press. Forthcoming in 2024.) Radical Food Geographies: Power, Knowledge and Resistance.  with Bristol University Press, Food & Society: New Directions series. UK.

• Reynolds, K. and Cohen, N. 2016. Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City. University of Georgia Press, Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series. Athens, GA.

Special Journal Issues

• Hammelman, C., Reynolds, K., and Levkoe, C., eds. 2020. Radical Food Geographies.     Special issue, Human Geography 13(3).

• Deldrève, V. Lewis, N., Moreau, S., and Reynolds, K., eds. 2019 Les Nouveaux Chantiers de la Justice Environnementale - Numéro spécial/New Frontiers of Environmental Justice - Special VertigO: La Revue Électronique en Sciences de l’Environnement.

• Reynolds, K., Block, D., and Bradley, K, eds. 2018. Food Justice Scholar-Activism and Activist-Scholarship. Special issue. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 17(4).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Block, D. and Reynolds, K.  (Equal authorship.) 2021. Funding a ‘people’s food justice geography’: supporting community-academic collaborations as fundamental food movement work. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 111(6): 1705-1720.

• Horst, M., McClintock, N., Baysse-Laine, Darly, S., Paddeu, F., Perrin, C., Reynolds, K., and Soulard, C. 2021. Translating land justice through comparison: a US-French dialogue and research agenda. Agriculture and Human Values. 38: 865-880.