These are the online readings. As you will learn in the library workshop, some of these are available through the surface web; just click on the link. Others are available through the “deep web,” online materials that are available with an account and password. These deep web articles are accessible through Mason Library databases. All of these articles are also available through Mason e-reserves. Choose NCLC 102, Instructor: O’Connor, Password: network.


The Three E’s Reading–> Edwards, Andres R. The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift (begins on page 22)

Pollan, Michael “Why Bother?”

Ackerman, “Food, how altered?” National Geographic, May 2002 Vol. 201 Issue 5, p32, 20p. Available through Academic Search library database

Barlett, Donald L. and James B. Steele, “Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear.” Vanity Fair, May 2008. pp. 156-170

Barndt, Deborah. “On the Move for Food Three Women Behind the Tomato’s Journey,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1/2, Women and Environments (Spring – Summer, 2001), pp. 131-143. Available through JSTOR library database

Bestos, Theodore C. “How Sushi Went Global,” Foreign Policy, Nov/Dec 2000. pp 54-63. Available through JSTOR library database

Bourne, Joel K. “The Global Food Crisis: The End of Plenty.” National Geographic, June 2009. pp. 26-59.

Friedman, Thomas, “It’s a flat world afterall,” New York Times, April 3, 2005.

Lavin, Chad, “Pollanated Politics, or, The Neoliberal’s Dilemma,” Politics and Culture 2009 (2)

NPR, “India’s Farming Revolution Heading for Collapse,” April 2009

NPR, “’Green Revolution’ Trapping India’s Farmers in Debt,” April 2009

NPR, “’In India, Bucking The ‘Revolution’ By Going Organic,” June 2009

Raworth, Kate. “Injustice in the Fields,” in Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working in Global Supply Chains, edited by Raworth, Kate, and Anna Coryndon. Oxford: Oxfam International, 2004. p. 66-79.

Wehrfritz, George and Stefan Theil. “It’s the Stupid Politics.” Newsweek, May 19, 2008