{"title":"Materiality and the politics of seeds in the global expansion of quinoa","authors":"Fabiana Li","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2022.2152608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2152608","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years, quinoa (traditionally grown in South America) has been imagined as a food crop that addresses the world’s most pressing problems: climate change, water scarcity, food insecurity, malnutrition, and economic inequality. Valued for being nutritionally exceptional and resistant to several agronomic stresses, quinoa has attracted the attention of consumers, researchers, and development agencies. This paper focuses on the World Quinoa Congress and other international gatherings of experts (plant scientists, quinoa farmers, social scientists, development practitioners, and entrepreneurs) who produce and share knowledge about quinoa’s cultivation, production, consumption, and diversification. I examine how various actors materialize quinoa through different ways of conceptualizing seeds, property, and knowledge. In some cases, quinoa is part of a larger socioecological system, while in others, seeds are disembedded from their geographical context and studied in terms of their efficiency and yields. I explore the convergence and divergence of knowledges that accompany quinoa’s globalization, shedding light on the frictions, conflicting priorities, opportunities, and questions that arise in spaces of knowledge creation and exchange.","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"465 1","pages":"867 - 885"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76839503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Healthy” food configurations: critical analysis of power relations in context","authors":"Myriam Durocher, Irena Knezevic","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2022.2145060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2145060","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, we delve into the contexts, knowledge and power relations that lead to the emergence of what we call “healthy” food configurations. These configurations are the result of particular arrangements of realms of practices, sets of knowledge, actors, events, institutions, and more that contribute to the production of various understandings and ways of approaching “healthy” food. Mobilizing a cultural studies approach and theoretical framework, we question the power relations negotiated in how/when/for whom these configurations emerge and what knowledge at the intersection of food, bodies and health they convey and produce. We analyze the elements of local context and the broader socio-cultural ideologies that permeate food cultures and inform these configurations’ emergence. Working with and navigating through public debates, alternative food practices, political and community-based discourses and practices, and food products and trends retrieved from Quebec’s (Canada) food culture, we offer a new way of approaching different understandings of “healthy” food – as many different configurations – to unveil the diversity of the actors, knowledge, and power relations at play in their situated emergence.","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"42 1","pages":"905 - 926"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91106393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban gardening in Ho Chi Minh City: class, food safety concerns, and the crisis of confidence in farming","authors":"N. Faltmann","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2022.2142753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2142753","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years, the southern Vietnamese metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City has seen a proliferation of urban gardening, ranging from the minute home-growing of herbs and vegetables to commercial urban gardens. In this article, I argue that what underlies these phenomena is urbanites’ striving to control the food they consume in light of prevalent food safety concerns in Vietnam. Based on ethnographic research, the article demonstrates that urban food growing efforts are largely related to a widespread crisis of confidence in the food system in general and in farming specifically. People are particularly concerned with agrochemical contamination of food and its long-term health effects. Meanwhile, tensions exist between negative views of “unsafe” practices of unknown farmers and the simultaneous romanticization of rural life and of food acquired through personal rural connections. In the context of growing socio-economic inequalities in the late socialist country, the research also examines how urban gardening as an individualized and middle-class activity renders visible class differences in access to locally produced, “safe” food.","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"7 1","pages":"927 - 944"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87606012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Online learning and Community-Engaged Pedagogy during a global health crisis: teaching food studies & COVID-19”","authors":"Kelly A. Spring, S. A. Barton, Amy L. Bentley","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2022.2148085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2148085","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The pandemic brought traditional learning to a halt, while requiring new and innovative approaches to teach in an online setting. Educators in higher education had to retool and reconfigure their lectures and seminars to provide a fully inclusive environment in which learners could actively engage in course materials, even from a distance. One effective method that lecturers utilized in their courses was community-based pedagogy, which enabled students to apply their knowledge beyond the online classroom, through research projects that allowed them to actively engage with individuals living in their respective areas. This article, which emanates from a roundtable held at the 2021 Association for the Study of Food and Society’s annual meeting, “Community-Engaged Pedagogy in a Time of Online Learning: Teaching Food & COVID-19,” delves into the many and varied ways that lecturers employed this type of pedagogy to meet the needs of their students. Specifically, three of the original panelists, Dr. Kelly A. Spring (George Mason University/University of Southern Maine), Professor Scott A. Barton (NYU), and Professor Amy Bentley (NYU), discuss their online courses in food studies, and how they employed different forms of community-based pedagogy to benefit and support students’ learning during a time of unprecedented educational upheaval.","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"1019 - 1054"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89779457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating discipline and indulgence: the performance of contradiction on Instagram food posts in the Philippines","authors":"Kwok Yingchen, M. J. Montefrio, Edson C. Tandoc","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2022.2113285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2113285","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There is a contradictory dynamic in how Instagram seems to promote both profligate consumption habits in disregard of health and unprecedented health anxieties where people micromanage every ingredient they consume. Far from inhabiting disparate social worlds, these themes often coalesce within the same image. We argue that this phenomenon reflects consumers’ attempts to navigate a neoliberal double bind that simultaneously pressures them toward both dysfunctional extremes. By emphasizing the centrality of a politics of indulgence to US ideological warfare, especially during the Green Revolution, we interrogate a key limitation of much critical food scholarship in its reductive equation of whiteness and power with food discipline and thinness. We draw on postcolonial scholarship on mestiza/o whiteness and code-switching to argue that neocolonial privilege is better understood as the mobility to code-switch between the vocabularies of discipline and indulgence without being confined to one or the other. Then, we analyze Instagram food posts taken by customers at organic restaurants in urban Philippines, reading them as innovative but never innocent contestations against the double binds of discipline/indulgence and mestiza/o whiteness while highlighting the rich historical and cultural contingency of their meaning-making.","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"63 1","pages":"793 - 813"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88220172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Forrest, Cecilia Leong-Salobir, L. Heldke, Zeynep Kılıç
{"title":"Like a Moth to a candle-lit dinner: food and storytelling","authors":"B. Forrest, Cecilia Leong-Salobir, L. Heldke, Zeynep Kılıç","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2022.2124035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2124035","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As part of commensality, storytelling offers an important social function at the table. Using the theme of the 2022 ASFS annual conference, “Cultivating Connections,” four ASFS board members offer personal stories in the style of The Moth Radio Hour that consider the possibilities—and limitations—of making connections through food, whether it be travel, migration, COVID-19, or academia itself.","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"69 1","pages":"631 - 639"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90279129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research Statement of Tara Maudrie","authors":"Tara Maudrie","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2022.2125703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2125703","url":null,"abstract":"My proposed dissertation research aims to understand how positive mental health relationships with eating and nutrition can be supported through American Indian/ Alaska Native (AI/AN) cultural eating values. Intuitive Eating is an evidence-based intervention that aims to heal damaged relationships with food through an adaptive eating pattern that is grounded in positive psychology. While Intuitive Eating has shown to be positively associated with higher diet quality and reduced disk of chronic disease (including T2D) among the general population, no research has explored whether this intervention or its components are culturally relevant for AI/ANs and aligns with AI/AN cultural eating values. Therefore, the current proposed project aims to: (1) Explore what AI/AN cultural food values are important and salient in two urban AI/AN communities, Baltimore and Minneapolis; and (2) Understand feasibility and acceptability of adapting Intuitive Eating in the Baltimore and Minneapolis urban AI/AN communities. I will conduct two FGDs with 5-8 participants per community ( N = 10-16 participants total). FGDs will inquire about: a) participants’ definitions of cultural food values; and b) how those values relate to mental health relationships with food and nutrition (e.g., mana-ging/preventing diabetes); c) explore perceptions of the Intuitive Eating program, includ-ing its compatibility (or lack thereof) with AI/AN cultural food values; d) feasibility and acceptability of adapting Intuitive Eating with urban AI/ANs. This community-based participatory research is aligned with community priorities to address and prevent T2D and with cultural strengths (cultural food and health values).","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"630 - 630"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76554529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eating religiously: food and faith in the 21st century","authors":"F. Markowitz, N. Avieli","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2022.2116195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2116195","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This, the first article in our co-edited Thematic Issue, “Eating Religiously: Food and Faith in the 21st Century“ introduces Food, Culture and Society readers to the intriguing research questions posed by the volume’s authors, who discussed these with us in a novel Israel Science Foundation-sponsored international conference at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in May 2019. We open this Introduction by presenting a contemporary paradox in which demands for resurrecting ancient animal sacrifices and encouraging the re-traditionalization of religious practices coexist with the growing influence of ecological, climate change and animal rights advocates’ pressures to ban such sacrifices and embrace veganism. After adding a brief overview of the growing anthropological subfield of Food and Religion, we set out the main concepts that guide the structure of this volume and explicate the social, cultural and political importance that considerations of eating religiously bring to bear in the 21st century.","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"415 1","pages":"640 - 646"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77459239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}