Guest editors’ introduction: Building a radical food geography praxis

Materializing the metaphor: Theorizing the food desert as a sociospatial–legal instrument in the production of space

“…This bears important questions, or better yet, hesitations, about the role of US policy in ameliorating, reproducing, or exacerbating food inequities. Beyond the theoretical, this analysis builds on what has emerged in recent work as a radical food geographies praxis, which sits at the intersection of food systems scholarship and radical geographies, and exists, in part, to address manifestations of power and assemblies of oppression (Hammelman et al, 2020a(Hammelman et al, , 2020b. Although the intervention herein certainly sits within the theoretical realm, I invoke radical food geographies praxis to foreground the material implications of the food desert concept as a socio-spatial-legal instrument.…”