Dear Critters,
We are looking for Panel Members to join us for a discussion on: 'Sustainable diets, masculinities and environmental caring: Gendered understandings of movements towards sustainable agro-food practices' at the 8th Nordic Geographers Meeting in Trondheim, Norway, June 16–19 2019 'Sustainable Geography – Geographies of Sustainability'.
The impact of industrial scale food production poses significant threats to environmental sustainability. Despite the current rising trends of veganism, ‘flexitarianism’ and ‘reducetarianism’ in some areas, global levels of animal-based protein consumption are on the rise – between 1993-2013 global population increased by 29%, yet global demand for animals’ products increased by 62% (Food and Agriculture Organization (2014) State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014: In Brief (FAO, Rome)). Simultaneously, one third of food produced globally gets wasted or lost (FAO SAVE FOOD: Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction). The IPCC has recently suggested that dietary shifts (reducing meat consumption as well as shortening supply chains and lessening food waste), could play a significant factor in climate change mitigation (IPCC (2018) SR1.5). But an often overlooked dimension of sustainability issues in geography is that of gender (see, for instance, UNFCCC’s work on Women and Climate Change).The performance of diverse masculinities is receiving increased attention, following the popular critical label of ‘toxic masculinity’ and its association with a raft of negative practices from the #MeToo campaign, through to weak leadership on global environmental challenges. This is a timely moment to increase studies on the cultural, social and political dynamics that drive the performances of diverse forms of masculinity, in order to appraise how to offer more environmentally sustainable forms of living. The session will focus explicitly on studying practices of being a man across the agro-food network to understand more about the interaction of gendered identity norms and barriers to ecological caring and responsibility. This panel sets out to explore some of the gender dimensions relevant to discussions of sustainable diets and practices of environmental caring at any part of the agro-food supply network: farming, food processing, retailing and consumption. As such, we welcome submissions to this panel session that address some of the following questions and others:
-How are existing masculinities (e.g. hegemonic, hybrid, caring masculinities, etc.) performed through or against sustainable food practices?
-What might “eco-masculinities” look like?
-How do intersections of masculinity and populism impact on knowledges and practices around environmental sustainability?
-How do queer and non-binary conceptions of gender relate to geographies of sustainability?
-How can awareness of gendered roles (e.g. farmers, chefs, domestic cooks, etc.) across the agro -food supply network improve our understanding of sustainability issues?
-How can an intersectional approach to identity practices help overcome barriers to socio-ecological transformation?
-How might animal geographies and more-than-human geographies do masculinities?
-What might a sustainable BBQ look like?
-How does the production of animal bodies relate to the production of gendered human bodies? -How do geographers relate to gendered marketing around ethical and environmental consumerism?
-How do conceptions of masculinity interact with ideas of Nature, temporality and citizenship in discussions of sustainability?
Please email Expressions of Interest to Dr Paul Hurley [log in to unmask] and/or Dr Emma Roe [log in to unmask] Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton by Friday 7th December 2018.
all best wishes,
Emma
Dr Emma Roe
Associate Professor in Human Geography
School of Geography and Environmental Sciences
University of Southampton.
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