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Comment by Simeon Magliveras on April 4, 2013 at 7:48am

Academic Gastronomy Conference on the 11th of April

Comment by Jah Paz on December 1, 2012 at 4:31pm

great group! i'm taking my first steps in the field nowadays, and i'm thankful for any help i can get. i'll write more when it would come to eat (or IT) soon, just wanted to hear every body says: Welcome JahPaz! Woohooooo!  :) 

Peace

Comment by Elaine Forde on August 3, 2012 at 5:42pm

Job vacancy at GRAIN, an NGO supporting peasants' struggles for food sovereignety

http://www.grain.org/pages/vacancies

Comment by Giovanni Orlando on November 9, 2011 at 1:34pm

EASA2012: Uncertainty and disquiet

Nanterre University, France, 10/07/2012 – 13/07/2012

Workshop 079

Ethical foods after the global recession: navigating anxiety, morality and austerity

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1255

Convenors

Giovanni Orlando (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Cristina Grasseni (University of Bergamo)

Short Abstract

Disquiet for the status quo has been a primary factor in the production and consumption of ethical food. This workshop will look at the role that a 'new' anxiety—that produced by the current altering of the relation between market and society—has on such moral-economic endeavours.

Long Abstract

Food plays a crucial role in generating, expressing and easing the anxiety that is intrinsic to capitalist modernity. Anthropologists have identified in particular 'ethical' foods as powerful symbols of people's current preoccupations about health, nature and others, humans and non. If these preoccupations have been the driver behind the production and consumption of such foods up to now, new powerful sources of anxiety have hit the globe since 2008: recession and austerity. The worries they provoke are different from those that led the growth of ethical food in the past, and potentially threaten its existence as we know it. Though it appeals to values, normativity and personal motivation, in fact, ethical food remains based on the possibility of selling and buying value-added commodities. Recession and austerity cast such possibility into deep uncertainty. We thus call for ethnographies that investigate the many ways in which producers and consumers may be seen to re-act across the world to the centrifugal pulls of these different sentiments. How do the former cope, in action and discourse, with their intention to produce responsibly, but also with consumers' 'belt-tightening'? How do the latter face up, for themselves and for others, to their desire to make principled purchases vis-à-vis declining incomes and poor job prospects? Or isn't austerity an issue for those involved in such matters? Ethical foods and the financial crisis offer an unprecedented opportunity to illuminate the long-standing debate about the role of affect and values on economy. This workshop will explore such opportunity.

Comment by Light Seeker on October 23, 2011 at 9:14pm

Hi everyone, I am doing PhD in Cultural Anthropology in Slovakia. My research work is about "Migration and Food Identity". Can anyone please help me by refering literature on the topic. With thanks.

Comment by paulrchalmers on June 15, 2011 at 12:59pm

Hi everyone. I finished an MA Food Anthropology last year at SOAS, now doing a PhD in Cardiff about informal food vending and rural-urban links in Bolivia. If anyone has similar interests please get in touch!

Comment by david seddon on February 22, 2011 at 6:23am

Im happy to consider reviewing books on food -david

Comment by Freek Janssens on October 16, 2010 at 12:56pm

If anyone happens to be in London and is in for visiting some of London's wholesale markets during the night, please get back to me as it might be more fun to go together. Cheers, F.

Comment by Stacy A A Hope on September 8, 2010 at 12:47pm

If anyone is interested in reviewing a text on Food, I have started a discussion with two titles that may be of interest. Please check it out.

Comment by Richard Wilk on July 27, 2010 at 1:23am

Paula - is there a website for the program at UNAM? I am the director of the PhD program at Indiana, and we try to keep up a current list of food studies programs on our website. By the way, I am trying to set up a food studies ethnographic field school here in Belize for next summer - I hope there will be enough students interested in coming.

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