Belinda Ramírez
COLLEGE Lecturer
Stanford Introductory Studies - Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Bio
Belinda Ramírez studied sociocultural anthropology at the University of California San Diego. Their dissertation research dealt with the social, political, and economic dimensions of urban agriculture in the San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan region. While researching these topics, Belinda was exposed to the fulfillment found in experiential learning and working firsthand to change their local food system, receiving agricultural training through local farms and their involvement with community gardens in southern San Diego. They have also engaged in statewide political advocacy for young farmers through the National Young Farmers Coalition, served as both Board and Food Justice Co-Chair for Slow Food Urban San Diego, and worked as a Soil Farmer for Food2Soil.
Considering themself a farmer-scholar, Belinda is excited to delve into the worlds of (urban) agriculture and food justice in the Bay Area and to share the importance of this work with incoming students in the COLLEGE program. Looking to the future, Belinda is excited to contribute to the transformation of the global food system through agricultural education efforts based within their own food production spaces as well as through political advocacy, teaching, and writing.
https://www.truesustainabilityschool.com/about
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Stanford Introductory Studies - Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Coordinating Council Member, Stanford Environmental Justice Working Group (2022 - Present)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Cultural anthropology; urban agriculture; farms and farming; food systems and foodways; food justice and sovereignty; environmental and climate justice; urban studies; agriculture and environment; citizenship; critical geography; critical race theory; ecology; ethnography; food (in)security/sovereignty; political anthropology; political ecology; political economy; race and ethnicity; racism(s); social movements and protest; social value; morality and ethics; community
2023-24 Courses
- Citizenship in the 21st Century
COLLEGE 102 (Win) - Environmental Sustainability: Global Predicaments and Possible Solutions
COLLEGE 106 (Spr) - Food Justice Now! Power and Politics in the Ways We Eat
CSRE 37Q, EARTHSYS 37Q, SOC 37Q (Aut) - Why College? Your Education and the Good Life
COLLEGE 101 (Aut) -
Prior Year Courses
2022-23 Courses
- Citizenship in the 21st Century
COLLEGE 102 (Win) - Environmental Justice: Reflection
EARTHSYS 134 (Spr) - Environmental Sustainability: Global Predicaments and Possible Solutions
COLLEGE 106 (Spr) - Food, Sustainability, and Culture
SOC 129D (Sum) - Why College? Your Education and the Good Life
COLLEGE 101 (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Citizenship in the 21st Century
COLLEGE 102 (Win) - Environmental Sustainability: Global Predicaments and Possible Solutions
COLLEGE 106 (Spr) - Food, Sustainability, and Culture
SOC 129D (Sum) - Why College? Your Education and the Good Life
COLLEGE 101 (Aut)
- Citizenship in the 21st Century
All Publications
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National Association of Student Anthropologists: Advocating for Anthropologists-in-Training since 1985
Anthropology News
2017; 58 (4): 27
View details for DOI 10.1111/AN.558
- An Anthropological Perspective: The Cultural, the Political, and the Ontological in Kichwa Studies ProQuest. 2017
- Demonstrative Deixis in Two Dialects of Amazonian Quichua Quechua Expressions of Stance and Deixis Brill. 2015
- An Issue of Legitimacy: Hmong Religious and Ethnonational Borders in Northern Thailand National Social Science Journal 2014; 42 (1): 96-104