Charlotte Spring

My own interest is in food, especially surplus food redistribution and the question of 'valuing food' when the complexity of supply lines separates people from the source of their food- the notion of 'connection' is often somewhat fuzzily articulated but points to the way experience of different spaces might contribute to different beliefs/valuations (from a folklorist/anthropological perspective, the VNP glossary of terms made me think of Robert Macfarlane's new glossary of 'nature' terms and the removal of words to describe nature from the Oxford Childrens Dictionary.) I come from anthropology/human geography and am interested in the way concepts from social sciences can contribute to cross-disciplinary projects such as this, as it brings a history of questioning the way we come to know through techniques of measurement, counting, ascribing value/meaning etc.