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Foodscapes Beyond the Alternative/Conventional Food Networks Binary (STS Conference, Graz, Austria, May 5-6, 2014).
Session organisers: Ulrich Ermann, Annalisa Colombino, Renate Renner, University of Graz.
This session aims to include papers that tackle from different theoretical perspectives all those spaces and practices of consumption/production that challenge the ‘traditional’ binary approach that analyses by dividing ‘food networks’ into ‘alternative food networks’ and ‘conventional food networks’ (cf. Goodman and Goodman 2009; Sonnino and Marsden 2006; Tregear 2011).
For this session, we invite contributions that offer a critical rethinking of this binary approach to food networks through the analysis of, for example, supermarkets, shops, shopping malls, farms, kitchens, living rooms, shopping bags and trolleys, restaurants, streets, new and traditional media, celebrity chefs, food blogs, food porn, creative and everyday cuisine, food quality, food safety, food mobility, healthy/unhealthy food, etc.. More broadly, we invite papers that consider, from a theoretical and/or empirical perspective, practices, spaces and discourses of food production, consumption, circulation and representation.
Please send your abstract (250 words) to [log in to unmask] by 08/12/2013. Please include in your abstract: name and email address of corresponding author, institutional affiliation, country.
*Conference fees*
The Conference fee includes conference materials, coffee breaks, two lunches and one social event and has to be paid during the registration process via PayPal.
Early bird booking fee: 130€ until March 31st 2014.
Booking price after March 31st 2014 is 160€.
*Registration*
The registration (online form) for the STS Conference Graz 2014 will be open by the beginning of February 2013
*Conference Venue*
The venue for the 2014 conference will be the Meerscheinschlössl, a baroque castle owned by the University of Graz and located near the campus.
Address:
Mozartgasse 3
8010 Graz
Austria
Google maps link: http://goo.gl/maps/RF29A
Conference website:
http://www.ifz.tugraz.at/ias/IAS-STS/Upcoming-Activities/STS-Conference-Graz-2014