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Subject: CFP Food futures and the politics of eating (and writing) food; AAA Annual Meeting Montreal
Call for Papers
110th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
November 16-20, 2011
Montreal, QC, Canada
"Taste the difference" Food futures and the politics of eating (and
writing) food
Anthropologists have long drawn on the importance of a multitude of eating
practices for (re-)creating bonds and communities, for remembering the
past, as well as for connecting seen and unseen worlds together. But
equally have the structuring mechanisms of food been stressed in respect
to creating boundaries and hierarchical differentiation processes between
groups and classes. However, less attention was given towards analyzing
the implications of food consumption practices for possible (uncertain)
futures. Recent global concerns over and around food enforce the need to
re-engage with those aspects of food which constitute subjectivities and
which steer people towards more (or less) sustainable ways of living.
This panel is interested in addressing some of the ways in which
anthropology can contribute to debates around food in light of present or
impending challenges and transformations of food practices.
Taking either a contemporary or historical approach, papers are invited on
the following themes and cross-over between themes:
- Tasting/sensing/performing food and drink:
In what way do embodied dimensions of food inform and shape people's ways
of knowing food? How does the materiality of food help us conceptualize
the multiple and multi-layered temporal dimensions of eating practices?
How do we identify (new) differences? In what ways, can 'differences' lead
us to understanding new aspects of foods unifying and/or separating
tendencies?
- Imagining food and drink (Imaginaries of food and drink):
How do imaginaries of food and drink guide people's sense of what is
'good' food? In what ways does the mobility of food mater? And, how do
'local' and 'regional' ways of eating complement the cosmopolitan view of
food?
Please send 250-word paper abstracts by the 8th of April to:
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Contact session organizer:
Dana Bentia (Lancaster University, UK) [log in to unmask]
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