Dear Anthropology Matters members,

We invite the submission of abstracts for the panel *Food sharing:
contemporary cultures, practices and economies*, organised by Oona Morrow
(Trinity College Dublin) and Anna Davies (Trinity College Dublin),  at
the Association
of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2017, Boston MA, April 5-9.

Please share widely, and be in touch if you have any questions or ideas!

Best wishes,

Brigida



*CFP  *Food sharing: contemporary cultures, practices and economies**

Food sharing, often characterized as the bedrock of human civilization,
incorporates diverse activities and evolving practices. This session seeks
to bring together scholars working within food studies with those examining
the cultures, practices and economies of sharing to investigate the
tensions, solidarities and possibilities within contemporary food sharing.

What has come to be known as ‘the sharing economy’ in mass and social media
encompasses a plethora of enterprises that facilitate the exchange
(sometimes sharing) of underutilized resources often (but not always) with
the help of web platforms and advances in information communication
technology (ICT). As a rapidly expanding sector its impact on regulation,
sustainability, consumer and labor protection, and social relations is
evolving, contested and understudied.

To date, much media attention is focused only on tip of the sharing economy
“iceberg” celebrating activities characterized by capitalist firms, waged
labor, novel platform economies, finance capital, and commodity exchange.
While there are examples of food sharing in this narrow category (e.g. Eat
With, MealSharing), social enterprises, cooperatives, informal gifting
networks, voluntary and caring labor have long formed the life-blood of
diverse food sharing practices. As a result, we are interested in empirical
and conceptual papers from across the diverse terrain of contemporary food
sharing and we are particularly keen to receive abstracts for papers that
examine one or more dimensions of the following:

a)      the sharing of *food-related knowledge and skills* (e.g. about
identifying, growing, storing and cooking food), *spaces* (e.g. from land
for growing food in community gardens, CSAs and backyards etc. to kitchens
for preparing meals or food products) and *tools* (e.g. growing or cooking
utensils), as well as *food stuff* itself (from seeds and harvests to raw
or processed food);

b)      food sharing that takes places through the *collecting* wild or
surplus food (e.g. foraging, gleaning, skip surfing), *swapping *(e.g. food
or seeds) *and* *bartering*, *gifting* or even through *monetary exchange*
(e.g. shared purchasing, underground supper clubs or not for profit meal
sharing ventures);

c)      food sharing that occurs *beyond the family*, including
acquaintances, club members, associations, strangers; food sharing between
businesses or between business and charities or not-for-profit
organizations;

d)      food sharing *that utilizes any form of ICT*, e.g. internet, social
media, or smart technology to support, enhance or enable sharing.

At the same time, we seek to bring order to this cornucopia of food
sharing, and thus are particularly interested in papers that engage with
one or more of the following themes and frameworks in their analysis of
food sharing:
·         Diverse economies, social and solidarity economies
·         Commons and commoning
·         Food justice and security
·         Food governance – including law and regulation
·         Food sustainability
·         ICT and STS (science and technology studies)
·         Materiality and social practice approaches

Empirically and theoretically informed papers are very welcome and we are
looking to develop a Special Issue on food sharing economies from papers
that participate in this session.

Please send abstracts of no more than *250 words *to *both* Oona Morrow (
[log in to unmask]) and Anna Davies ([log in to unmask]) by *30th September 2016*.

-- 
Dr Brigida Marovelli

https://tcd.academia.edu/BrigidaMarovelli

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