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1. CALL for: Good Food and Good Lives
Good Food and Good Lives - grow, cook, share: The role of Food in resettlement, rehabilitation and re-entry
‘Doing what it says on the tin’ - we are inviting abstracts for an edited book to explore the role of food in enabling people with convictions to live ‘good lives’.
The aim is to examine the tangible ways in which the growing, cooking and sharing of food has the potential to be both transformative but also small-steps incremental in facilitating the often zig-zag (Glaser 1964), nomadic (Phillips 2017) desistance journeys of people with convictions. It examines the role that food can play in fostering positive social identities and generativity or doing good for others.
We have initial interest from publishers Routledge who see this book as part of their Frontiers of Criminal Justice series. Our intention is to present ten essays of 6,000 words in length (excluding references) authored by researchers, policy makers and practitioners which critically examine the processes of people with convictions: growing, cooking and sharing food, whether this is through acts of eating together, learning new skills or generativity in the community and in prison. We anticipate that authors will be drawn from the United Kingdom (UK) and internationally from other jurisdictions, with first drafts of chapters to be submitted by December 2022.
Illustrative topics include:
• Growing your own - the demise of the vegetable garden in prisons as a place for prisoners to work together, gain employability skills and provide food for prison kitchens.
• Cooking together – access to self-catering facilities and learning to prepare basic meals together can be transformative in enabling acts of generativity or doing for others.
• Commensality (eating together) – creating a sense of belonging and equity between people with convictions, staff and volunteers – in short, the operationalisation of processes pertaining to tertiary desistance (McNeill 2016), or relational desistance (Nugent and Schinkel 2016).
• Social relations – sharing food in prisons, through bartering, ‘food boats’ or informal arrangements for sharing meal costs or cooking for others.
• Catering and food hospitality –generating confidence and providing skills and experience for people with convictions – such as the Clinks restaurants in prisons in England.
• Social entrepreneurialism – enabling self-employment for people with convictions and giving back, exemplified by HM Pasties in Manchester, England.
This book is for: policy makers and providers of services for people with convictions in custody and community; academics and students from criminology, sociology, social work, health and social care, and food studies.
Please send abstracts of 300 words and a biography of 100 words by 28th February to:
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For more information click on this link: https://stummuac-my.sharepoint.com/personal/55126461_ad_mmu_ac_uk/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2F55126461%5Fad%5Fmmu%5Fac%5Fuk%2FDocuments%2FPublications%2FFood%2F18%5F1%5F22%5FGood%20Food%20and%20Good%20Lives%2Epdf&parent=%2Fpersonal%2F55126461%5Fad%5Fmmu%5Fac%5Fuk%2FDocuments%2FPublications%2FFood&wdLOR=c30988F51%2D0A1F%2DE04A%2DACD4%2D4AE46C68DB52
If you have further queries, please email.
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2. The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2022
The Sophie Coe Prize is awarded each year to an engaging, original piece of writing that delivers new research and/or new insights into any aspect of food history relating to any period, place, people or culture. We welcome innovative, well written entries of up to 10,000 words in length in the English language only. The Prize is £1,500 for the winning essay, article or book chapter. Authors may submit one entry only each, and they must be delivered to us by this year’s closing date of Friday 22nd April 2022.
The Prize was founded in 1995 in memory of Sophie D. Coe, the eminent anthropologist, author and food historian. The winner is selected by our anonymous panel of distinguished judges and announced in early July at the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery.
Published and unpublished work may be submitted. If the former, it must have been published within 12 months of the submission deadline. If the latter, it must be in final, fully edited and corrected form.
Before submitting an entry please read in full the “How to Enter” page at our website sophiecoeprize.wordpress.com/how-to-enter/. Entries that do not comply fully with our conditions of entry will not be put forward to our judges. We also strongly advise entrants to read some of the former winning entries to gain an understanding of the kind of original research and quality of writing we are seeking.
For full details, and to sign up for reminders and updates on the Prize, please consult our website at sophiecoeprize.wordpress.com. Any queries not answered by the information on our website should be addressed to the Chair, Dr. Jane Levi, at email address [log in to unmask]
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BSA Food Study Group Convenors:
Julie Parsons [log in to unmask]
Andrea Tonner [log in to unmask]
Twitter: @BSA_Food
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