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Abstract
As formerly agricultural states respond to the challenges of unsustainable development and the effects of globalization, local and regional environmental advocates face new challenges in their efforts to educate and persuade people about the effects of their choices as consumers and citizens. This essay examines the case of food-centered advocacy tourism in North Carolina and its rhetorical and performative potential as a site for the cultivation of other-wise environmental subjectivities. This essay argues that place-based, embodied experiences of witnessing may hold significant potential for challenging unsustainable discourses of consumerism.
Acknowledgements
This essay was developed in Della Pollock's graduate seminar on Memory and Performance and presented at the 2007 Conference on Communication and the Environment (COCE) in Chicago. The author would like to thank Carole Blair, Della Pollock, Robbie Cox, Phaedra Pezzullo, Jeff Motter, David Terry, Annissa Clarke, the two anonymous reviewers, and the editors of this special issue for their suggestions and helpful guidance.
