Veronica House
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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It counts more in certain cases of tenure and promotion.
It's considered more valuable in some universities.
And I just fundamentally disagree with that idea.
I think that especially if we are doing community-based work
It should be celebrated that we co-author with the people we work with and the students that have helped us understand our projects better.
And so I very much love that idea of co-authorship.
I'm glad that more and more people are starting to do that in our field and that it's
You know, tenure and promotion ideas are changing, I hope, slowly.
But I wanted to embody that belief that I have that we do this work together and that the shared knowledge is much more valuable than anything I could have offered myself.
It is the idea of taking a complex or contested term like local food in Boulder, and I can talk about what I mean by contested with that term, and creating projects and events, a kind of distributed model for sharing ideas with the community and then letting them help to create a definition that is meaningful and that might impact policy or community-based practices.
So
That sounds abstract.
What I mean is came about through the work I was doing with my students.
It started in 2014.
A potential partner approached me after these horrific floods in Boulder County that wiped out a lot of the farmland in 2013.
And his nonprofit wanted to study the disruption to distribution channels between farms and restaurants.
And so his question for my students was, can you interview the restaurateurs or chefs, interview the farmers, and figure out how distribution was disrupted?
They did that assignment and we turned that information over to our partner.
But after the semester ended, I reviewed those interviews and I saw an interesting and I thought disturbing problem emerge, which is that people did not have a clear sense of what local food meant.
There was no clear definition.
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