In her 2020 Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS) presidential address, Molly Anderson outlined three ways to push beyond boundaries imposed on us and by us to work towards addressing global food system and societal problems. In this response essay, I draw on my experiences and my perspectives as a pre-tenure rural sociologist who is not from around here to highlight how I attempt to push beyond boundaries in my own work and to discuss challenges associated with the feasibility of some of Molly’s call. I also build on Molly’s call for boundary work including a broadening of international collaborations through increased engagement in cross-national comparative research, pivoting from interacting with global social movements to interacting with key stakeholders, and deepening of anti-discrimination work through the use of an intersectionality lens. Arguing that Molly’s call for action is bold but needed, I close my essay with a set of questions that I hope can contribute to larger discussions on how we can help one another push beyond boundaries to work towards more fair and sustainable food systems.

莫莉·安德森（Molly Anderson）在2020年农业，食品与人类价值学会（AFHVS）总统演讲中概述了三种超越我们自身以及我们为解决全球粮食体系和社会问题而努力的方法。在这篇回应文章中，我借鉴了我作为农村地区任职前农村社会学家的经验和观点，强调了我如何超越自己的工作范围，并讨论与某些人的可行性相关的挑战。莫莉的电话。我还以莫莉呼吁开展边界工作为基础，包括通过更多地参与跨国比较研究来扩大国际合作，从与全球社会运动的互动转向与主要利益相关者的互动，通过使用交叉镜头来深化反歧视工作。我认为莫莉的行动呼吁是大胆但有必要的，我在本文结束时提出了一系列问题，希望对我们如何能够互相帮助超越界限，朝着更加公平和可持续的食品体系迈进更大的讨论。