Acknowledgements
I am grateful to my supervisors Wardlow Friesen and Nick Lewis for their guidance and support during my PhD and beyond. I am also thankful to the practitioners of alternative food initiatives in Auckland for their contributions to the co-production of my thesis, allowing me to be in their spaces and share their practices. Thank you also to Sandy Lee for her very helpful comments on an earlier version of this precis.
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Emma L. Sharp
Dr Emma L Sharp is a Geographer, with a research focus in food politics, intersectionality, care, and, alternative economies. In her teaching she brings a critical social science lens to environmental geographies. She is a founding member of the NZ Women and Gender Geographies Research Network (2013–) and associated Puāwai Collective, and leads the Critical Food Studies Group in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland. She is an Associate Investigator with Te Pūnaha Matatini – a Centre of Research Excellence hosted by the University of Auckland.