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Dear colleagues,
We are inviting papers for the panel Food: crisis and creativity
Convenors
Marta Rosales (New University of Lisbon) email: [log in to unmask]
Monica Janowski (Sussex University) email: [log in to unmask]
Short Abstract
Food forms a significant expressive domain to the analysis of both everyday routines and
exceptional moments in peoples' lives. The panel welcomes papers that, by focusing on
practice, highlight the contribution of food to framing, evoking or anticipating critical
situations and contexts of crisis.
Long Abstract
In a wide range of personal and global contexts - ranging from scarcity due to war
through environmental disaster to "comfort food" in difficult personal moments - food
becomes particularly visible in times and contexts of crisis. Food is a lens through which
to frame and understand the ways in which individuals and groups deal with crises. In a
context of crisis, food can allow individuals to draw on creative and emotional reserves
from the past; it can also generate new ways of moving into the future.
We welcome papers which, through focusing on creative practices in food production and
consumption, bring attention to its centrality in critical moments, its potential to express
cultural and subjective agency, and its ability to materialize and manage identity and
relationships. Using the lens of food, we hope to encourage discussion of the extent of
creative agency in critical moments; and of the processes of generating practice based on
imaginative thoughts, concepts and musings.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact either of the panel
convenors.
To submit a paper to this panel, see
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=595
For general information on the conference, see
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2010/index.htm
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