Dear colleagues,
Please consider submitting a paper to our panel at EASA in Lisbon.
P140 "Controversial heritages: memories, knowledges and practices of
scarcity"
Short abstract:
Numerous heritage-listed foods were initially created to respond to
scarcity. At the time of heritagization, social and historical contexts are
often forgotten. We propose to promote a debate around the processes of
heritagization and confront them with memories, knowledges and practices of
scarcity
Long abstract:
The recognition of food systems as heritage began in 2006 under the UNESCO
Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. If
there are relatively few food preparations and regional cuisines
classified, many of them were originally created to respond to famine and
scarcity, such as the "Mediterranean Diet", or food that is made of the
less noble parts of animals. This is also the case of some festive foods,
such as sardines during the Santo António festivities in Lisbon, or the
sweet blood chorizo in the sertão of northeastern Brazil. However, at the
time of heritagization, economic situations that corresponded to specific
food consumptions are not remembered and there is lack of analysis of
social and historical contexts in which they were created. By placing
famine at the center of our concerns, we want to evaluate memories,
knowledges and practices of scarcity and to discuss, comparatively and
critically, the clashes and consequences of the heritagization of food
systems and culinary creations of the working classes. We will take this
opportunity to open the debate on the enhancement of local or "typical"
products, which so often refer to a disappearing society from which
previous generations had to distance themselves: in an increasingly
urbanized world and where traditional production systems are threatened by
powerful food industries, who gains with heritagization? Finally, we will
discuss the enhancement of cuisines outside official agencies, and as
survival strategies, questioning if, in the end, heritage does not
contribute to maintain or produce inequalities.
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8720
Best wishes,
Joana Lucas and Julie Cavignac
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Joana Lucas
Investigadora de Pós-Doutoramento
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA)
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
(NOVA/FCSH)
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