<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Dear colleagues,<br/>
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For a Special Issue in the Open Access Journal Urban Planning (<a href="https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning" target="_blank">https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning</a>) on the topic: Perspectives on Food in the Sustainable City you will find the Call for Papers below and attached. We are looking forward to interdisciplinary contributions from the research field of Food Geographies in the context of the Sustainable City and socioecological transformations. We welcome especially proposals dealing with food justice and decolonial, feminist, and intersectional perspectives. The deadline for submission of abstracts (250 words max.) is June 15, 2024.<br/>
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The possibility to upload abstracts is now open: <a href="https://www.cogitatiopress.com/abstracts/index.php/urbanplanning/index/user" target="_blank">https://www.cogitatiopress.com/abstracts/index.php/urbanplanning/index/user</a><br/>
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Special Issue: Perspectives on Food in the Sustainable City<br/>
Representative of the growing awareness of pressing social, political, planning, andenvironmental issues in the food context, such as sustainable and fair food system design, is the thematic boom around the research field of food geographies. They open a critical view on current food production, preparation, and consumption relations in urban contexts from a geographical perspective and integrate also decolonial, feminist, and intersectional approaches.The shift of food policy to the urban level forms one of many solutions to current debates onthe negative impacts and social injustices of food production, consumption, and waste.<br/>
By signing the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact in 2015, hundreds of cities recognized theimportance of food as a significant urban system and its necessary socio‐ecological transition(s) for achieving urban sustainability goals. In this context, public catering (food provided in publicmunicipal entities) can be seen as ‘leverage point’ for transitions toward sustainable foodsystems. Similarly, civil society initiatives, such as food policy councils, demand for democratic participation in the decision‐making processes on local food systems. Also, they call for ‘foodjustice’ in the sense of overcoming postcolonial power relations in urban foodscapes that led toexclusions from access to fresh, healthy food for disadvantaged social groups due to interlinked factors, such as class, gender, race, and age.<br/>
The aim of this thematic issue is to discuss the importance of food geographies for the research of social‐ecological transition processes of the food system for a sustainable city. Hereby, the field of food geographies with its methodological approaches at the interface of different disciplines is to be critically assessed and new interdisciplinary perspectives are to be openedup.<br/>
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Editors: Birgit Hoinle (University of Hohenheim), Alena Birnbaum (University of Kassel), and Petra Lütke (University of Münster)<br/>
Submission of Abstracts: 1‐15 June 2024<br/>
Submission of Full Papers: 15‐31 October 2024<br/>
Publication of the Issue: April/June 2025</div></div></body></html>