One of the most amazing human geographers of her generation, Dr. Lindsay Naylor, @LB_Naylor wrote one of the most amazing, farmer-centred, humane treatments of fair trade coffee producers in the Mexican state of Chiapas. #ScholarSunday Dr. Naylor documenta everyday struggles. 
*documents* Jesus Twitter, please give me an edit button, seriously.
Anyhow, to the surprise of absolutely no one, the least of them me, Dr. @LB_Naylor 's book won the 2020 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award for best book in political geography in the last calendar year.
Anyhow, to the surprise of absolutely no one, the least of them me, Dr. @LB_Naylor 's book won the 2020 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award for best book in political geography in the last calendar year.
Dr. @LB_Naylor rebels herself against the traditional narrative that infuses studies of fair trade coffee. She doesn’t ask if it works, but instead *how* it works. Dr. Naylor takes an ethnographic approach to documenting struggles of indigenous campesinos/as as they resist.
One of the most important items in Fair Trade Rebels is how the researcher positionality works. Dr. Naylor is able to, instead of enacting a "white gaze", reposition the work to illuminate the complex practices of everyday resistance of campesinos/as who survive producing coffee.
This is incredibly important. As Lindsay herself indicates, Chiapas campesinos/as have been studied to death, with little if any reciprocation from scholars who come and examine their practices. It is only by engaging feminist geography approaches (Hyndman, Pratt, etc.) that...
... researchers are able to reposition the work to reveal the power imbalances and cross-scalar struggles of fair trade campesinos. I really, really enjoyed @LB_Naylor 's book (and yes, I have also met Lindsay in person, at the AAGs, and yes, I also consider her a dear friend)
Also, bear in mind that I woke up late, have not had my coffee, and I *just* realized I used the phrase "one of the most amazing" twice in the same sentence.
Argh.
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I have to say, @fiveoclockbot has scored some amazing authors and books for University of Minnessota Press. Off the top of my head, @Ethnography911 's "HIV Exceptionalism" upress.umn.edu/book-division/… (Dr. Benton is another #ScholarSunday gem in medical anthropology too!)
