Dear colleagues
Does your research look at food practices, food supply chains, local
cuisines or agriculture in a changing environment? Does your work draw
broadly on the themes of temporality and orientations toward the future -
practices of anticipation, anxieties, food security, planning or
uncertainty? If yes, you are warmly invited to submit an abstract to our
panel 'Moving on: Food Futures and Reimagining Uncertainty' (P033) and come
meet us in Stockholm at the EASA's Biannual Conference 'Staying, Moving,
Settling' from 14 to 17 August 2018.
--- Moving on: Food Futures and Reimagining Uncertainty (P033), a panel of
the Anthropology of Food EASA network ---
--- Short abstract ---
This panel addresses how food 'moves on' across time and space, borders and
bodies. From everyday practices to overarching value systems, we consider
foodways as human contemplations of the future: as sources of uncertainty,
as cushions against it and as speculations in search of opportunities.
--- Long abstract ---
The movement of human bodies through space is enmeshed in worries and
anticipations, plans and policies, and visions of a better life. This panel
addresses the imaginaries of 'moving forward' by considering food as
standing at the forefront of human contemplations of the future.
Uncertainties of nourishment in the immediate and far futures animate
anticipatory behaviour and range from coping with urban poverty to tackling
the future of agriculture in the Anthropocene. Through structuring everyday
foodways or relying on overarching value systems like science and ritual,
food is also enlisted to offset the uncertainties of life. Furthermore,
reigning in food uncertainties can help turn disruptions into profit. Food
is both the most basic source of human uncertainty and a basic way of
mitigating it.
By focusing on foodways in temporal mobilities, this panel hopes to 'move
on' and make food and future an anthropological theme in its own right. We
aim to showcase a variety of local and global ways in which futures are
imagined and uncertainties reimagined through food. We invite papers that
address staying, moving or settling of foods from field to table, fork and
bodies. This includes the role of food in economic crises; food anxieties,
food safety and (mis)trust; industrial food regimes in a changing climate
and degraded environment, global food commodity chains as subject of
financial speculation; value accumulation through food growing, ripening or
ageing; food in the technologies of planning such as policy-making and
agricultural development; alternative food movements; and aspirational
dieting.
--- Panel convenors ---
Katharina Graf (SOAS, University of London)
Petra Matijevic (SOAS, University of London)
Mukta Das (SOAS University of London)
Camelia Dewan (Stockholm University)
--- Discussant ---
Nefissa Naguib (University of Oslo)
Please note that the call for papers closes on 9 April 2018. Please include
a paper title, name and email address, a short abstract of fewer than 300
characters and a long abstract of fewer than 250 words in your proposal.
All proposals must be submitted through the online application system by
using the link:
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6624
Best wishes
--
*Petra Matijevič*
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
SOAS, University of London
10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London, WC1H 0XG
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