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Books by Allison Hayes-Conroy
Reconnecting Lives to the Land: An agenda for critical dialogue
South Jersey under the Stars: Essays on culture, agriculture and place
Papers by Allison Hayes-Conroy
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2010
This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. Th... more This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. The authors emphasise how identity goes beyond cognitive labels to implicate the entire minded-body. It is suggested that political ideas, beliefs and self definitions require a bodily kind of resonance in order to activate various kinds of environmental and social activism. The authors refer to this bodily resonance as 'visceral processes of identification' and, through empirical investigation with the Slow Food (SF) movement, they reveal specific instances of such processes at work. Examin
Engaging Kate Derickson and Paul Routledge's set of papers on scholar-activism, this paper reflec... more Engaging Kate Derickson and Paul Routledge's set of papers on scholar-activism, this paper reflects on what sorts of research values inspire and accompany scholaractivist research. We draw on multiple examples from research in Colombia and the United States, each of which speaks to the theme of food justice, broadly conceived. We pay attention to research "wants and needs," finding that specific outcomes (such as usable or compelling data) are only part of a wider array of desires and obligations that make scholar-activist partnerships valuable. Our examples demonstrate four distinct research valuessupportive networks, active science, productive discomfort, and affective moments, -that form a vision of scholar-activism that blurs the boundaries between research, political realities, and everyday lives, and seeks to confront real world challenges. The emphasis on active science is as intentional as it is surprising; scholar-activism has been pigeonholed by mainstream academia as a kind of research that doesn't square well with scientific outcomes. Meanwhile, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are being espoused as essential to solving contemporary problems. Thus, we emphasize that the knowledge, skills and values gained through broad engagement between scholar-activists and others in and out of academia can make scientific inquiry more socially relevant.
These advances in the physical and biological sciences provided much needed explanations for how ... more These advances in the physical and biological sciences provided much needed explanations for how the body functioned in health and disease. Leading scientists such as Claude Bernard developed the concept of internal physiological balance, later named homeostasis by Walter Cannon [2, . Edward Jenner introduced the method of vaccination, and Joseph Lister demonstrated the value of antisepsis . It was not long before those discoveries and others (e.g., Landsteiner's system of blood compatibility, Banting and insulin for diabetes) fundamentally strengthened the benefit of treatment for individual patients.
The notion of cultural acceptability is often called forth as a necessary component of food secur... more The notion of cultural acceptability is often called forth as a necessary component of food security, yet there is a lack of guidance in literature and policy as to how to operationalize this concept. Without specifying what cultural acceptability means, the concept risks becoming watered down, discounted, or obsolete in practice. This review strives to speak to those gaps by cataloging the connotations and implications of cultural acceptability in literature on urban food policy, food security, and associated topics. We explore the ways in which cultural acceptability has been invoked explicitly and implicitly in policy, planning, and scholarly literatures on food security in recent years in order to better understand what cultural acceptability has come to mean, how it is being utilized, and how it can be operationalized toward more flexible and appropriate urban food policy. We discuss ways in which cultural acceptability encapsulates more than certain types of food and literature that might provide dimension to the meaning and operationalization of cultural acceptability of food. Drawing on scholars that are breaking open understandings of cultural acceptability, we call attention to its complexity with reference to human rights-based approaches, cultural values evident in production and consumption processes, the importance of interweaving multiple knowledges, and challenging decision-making powers in today’s corporate food regime. Cultural valuations within these broad and fluid topics can provide important improvements to policy approaches to the cultural acceptability of food and are important for creating food security policy that is effective for meeting the needs of diverse populations.
Hayes-Conroy, A., & Sweet, E. L. (Online First) Whose adequacy? (Re) imagining food security with displaced women in Medellín, Colombia. Agriculture and Human Values, 1-12.
Food security scholarship and policy tends to embrace the nutrition status of individual men, wom... more Food security scholarship and policy tends to embrace the nutrition status of individual men, women and children as the end-goal of food security efforts. While there has been much value in investigating and trying to ensure sufficient nutrition for struggling households around the world, this overriding emphasis on nutrition status has reduced our understandings of what constitutes food adequacy. While token attention has been paid to more qualitative ideas like “cultural appropriateness,” food security scholars and policy makers have been unable to understand the broader value of food, which exceeds its caloric and nutrient counts. Drawing on empirical work from Medellín, Colombia, the paper argues that having adequate food means much more than simply sufficient nutrient intake, perhaps especially among marginalized groups. Exploring the case of food insecure women from Colombia who were forcibly displaced from rural to urban, we demonstrate how understandings of food adequacy must consider the social and environmental imaginaries of marginalized groups.
Visceral Geographies: Mattering, Relating, and Defying
Geography Compass, Jan 1, 2010
Abstract This study explores the task of doing 'visceral geograp... more Abstract This study explores the task of doing 'visceral geographies,'enrolling many areas of body-centered scholarship in the task of better understanding the visceral realm including geographies of affect and emotion, non-representational theory, sensuous and haptic geographies, health and disability studies, and scholarship on performance and movement. The authors desire to open lines of connection and communication between and beyond the current bounds of this scholarship. In doing so, the authors attempt to clarify the goals of ...
Mobilising bodies: visceral identification in the Slow Food movement
This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. Th... more This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. The authors emphasise how identity goes beyond cognitive labels to implicate the entire minded-body. It is suggested that political ideas, beliefs and self definitions require a bodily kind of resonance in order to activate various kinds of environmental and social activism. The authors refer to this bodily resonance as ‘visceral processes of identification’ and, through empirical investigation with the Slow Food (SF) movement, they reveal specific instances of such processes at work. Examining SF in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and Berkeley, California, USA, the authors ask how SF comes to feel in the bodies of members and non-members and they interrogate the role that feelings play in the development of activism(s). Bodies are shown to both align with movements’ socio-political aims and (re)create them. The account provides a means for shifting recent social theoretical attention to bodied/material life to a broad application in political geography, political ecology and social movement theory.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2010
This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. Th... more This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. The authors emphasise how identity goes beyond cognitive labels to implicate the entire minded-body. It is suggested that political ideas, beliefs and self definitions require a bodily kind of resonance in order to activate various kinds of environmental and social activism. The authors refer to this bodily resonance as 'visceral processes of identification' and, through empirical investigation with the Slow Food (SF) movement, they reveal specific instances of such processes at work. Examining SF in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and Berkeley, California, USA, the authors ask how SF comes to feel in the bodies of members and non-members and they interrogate the role that feelings play in the development of activism(s). Bodies are shown to both align with movements' socio-political aims and (re)create them. The account provides a means for shifting recent social theoretical attention to bodied ⁄ material life to a broad application in political geography, political ecology and social movement theory.
Visceral difference: variations in feeling (slow) food
This paper responds to concerns over a lack of diversity in alternative food movements by enterta... more This paper responds to concerns over a lack of diversity in alternative food movements by entertaining the possibility of understanding difference as a visceral process—a process of bodily feeling/sensation. Participatory research within and around the Slow Food (SF) movement reveals the complex role of feelings in motivating food actions and activism. On the whole, the cocreated data from this research illustrate that food is never ingested by itself: in the body, molecular connections develop between food and a countless array of other factors. Thus, food and food movements come to feel differently in different bodies as a result of inner-connected biological and social forces. In paying attention to such biosocial processes alternative food movements like SF may develop new understandings as to why they activate some people to participate in alternative food practices while chilling others. Accordingly the paper suggests that attentiveness to visceral feeling could enhance the ability of food movements to mobilize across difference.
Feeling Slow Food: Visceral fieldwork and empathetic research relations in the alternative food movement
This paper details the author’s experiments with accessing the visceral realm in research on the ... more This paper details the author’s experiments with accessing the visceral realm in research on the food-based social movement, Slow Food (SF). “Visceral” is defined as the bodily realm where feelings, sensations, moods and so on are experienced. Fieldwork methods aimed at participatory co-creation of data through verbal communications in the form of in-depth conversations and group discussions, as well as non-verbal communications in the form of “intentionally designed experiences” and other forms of sensory involvement. Communications centered on understanding how foods and food-based settings elicit feelings and sensations that move and power bodies differently, and specifically how SF guides bodies to be affected by specific foods and environments. The paper details how data were created and recorded, specifically exploring how sensory-based research events were translated to data through the creation of imagined bodily empathies. The paper also discusses the emergence of change-oriented communications that pushed for transformation in SF’s (in)attention to visceral differences, thus demonstrating how visceral research can challenge researchers and participants to critically reflect upon, and perhaps transform, how their own bodies feel (and respond to) the world.
Veggies and visceralities: A political ecology of food and feeling
Emotion, Space and Society, 2013
Abstract The 'alternative food'movement (encompassing both organic and ... more Abstract The 'alternative food'movement (encompassing both organic and local foods) has been critiqued for its racial and economic homogeneity, as well as its focus on individual choice and 'correct'knowledge. Nevertheless, the movement continues to gain in popularity within certain segments of the North American population (especially among white, middle class residents). In recent years, alternative food has also made its way into public schools–most notably through the guise of healthy eating. School Garden and Cooking Programs ( ...
Taking back taste: feminism, food and visceral politics
Despite much thoughtful agro-food scholarship, the politics of food lacks adequate appreciation b... more Despite much thoughtful agro-food scholarship, the politics of food lacks adequate appreciation because scholars have not developed a means to specify the links between the materialities of food and ideologies of food and eating. This article uses feminist theory to enliven a discussion of what the authors call visceral politics, and thus initiates a project of illustrating the mechanisms through which people's beliefs about food connect with their everyday experiences of food. Recent work on governed eating and material geographies is brought together with poststructural feminism in order to move towards a non-dualistic, visceral understanding of (everyday) socio-political life. In showing how the mind-body whole can be conceived as a singular, albeit ambiguously-unified agent, the article prefigures a more complete disclosure of the play of power in food systems. Food is shown as a means to trace power through the body in order to understand the making of the political (eating) subject. Specifically, reconceptualizing taste and the 'Slow Food' (SF) movement of taste education helps to concretize what a visceral politics of food might look like. The authors conclude that appreciating how food beliefs and representations exist materially in the body is crucial to the ability of food-based movements to inspire action across difference and achieve their progressive goals.
Progress in Human Geography, 2011
This third and final 'Geographies of food' review is based on an online blog conversation provoke... more This third and final 'Geographies of food' review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series . Authors of the work featured in these reviewsplus others whose work was not but should have been featured -were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about -and in the process review -other/new work within and beyond what could be called 'food geographies'. These conversations were coded, edited, arranged, discussed and rearranged to produce a fragmentary, multi-authored text aiming to convey the rich and multi-stranded content, breadth and character of ongoing food studies research within and beyond geography.
Abstract This third and final 'Geographies of food'review is based on an online blog conversation... more Abstract This third and final 'Geographies of food'review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews—plus others whose work was not but should have been featured—were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about—and in the process review—other/new work within and beyond what could be called 'food geographies'.
Geographies of Food:'Afters'
Progress in Human …, Jan 1, 2010
This third and final ‘Geographies of food’ review is based on an online blog conversation provoke... more This third and final ‘Geographies of food’ review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews – plus others whose work was not but should have been featured – were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people’s work, and to enter into conversations about – and in the process review – other/new work within and beyond what could be called ‘food geographies’. These conversations were coded, edited, arranged, discussed and rearranged to produce a fragmentary, multi-authored text aiming to convey the rich and multi-stranded content, breadth and character of ongoing food studies research within and beyond geography
Progress in Human Geography, 2010
This third and final 'Geographies of food' review is based on an online blog conversation provoke... more This third and final 'Geographies of food' review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series . Authors of the work featured in these reviewsplus others whose work was not but should have been featured -were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about -and in the process review -other/new work within and beyond what could be called 'food geographies'. These conversations were coded, edited, arranged, discussed and rearranged to produce a fragmentary, multi-authored text aiming to convey the rich and multi-stranded content, breadth and character of ongoing food studies research within and beyond geography.
Abstract This third and final 'Geographies of food'review is based on an online blog conversation... more Abstract This third and final 'Geographies of food'review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews—plus others whose work was not but should have been featured—were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about—and in the process review—other/new work within and beyond what could be called 'food geographies'.
This chapter is about emerging cultural geographies of food. It is the result of a collaborative ... more This chapter is about emerging cultural geographies of food. It is the result of a collaborative blog-to-paper process that led to an experimental, fragmented, dialogic text. Food is often researched precisely because it can help to vividly animate tensions between the small and intimate realms of embodiment, domesticity, and “ordinary affect” and the more sweeping terrain of global political economy, sustainability, and the vitality of “nature”. Food's cultural geographies, like cultural geography more broadly, can be “best characterized by powerful senses of texture, creativity and public engagement”. The explosion of academic interest in food geographies is a mirror to the explosion of public interest in, and public discourse about, all kinds of food matters.
Reconnecting Lives to the Land: An agenda for critical dialogue
South Jersey under the Stars: Essays on culture, agriculture and place
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2010
This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. Th... more This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. The authors emphasise how identity goes beyond cognitive labels to implicate the entire minded-body. It is suggested that political ideas, beliefs and self definitions require a bodily kind of resonance in order to activate various kinds of environmental and social activism. The authors refer to this bodily resonance as 'visceral processes of identification' and, through empirical investigation with the Slow Food (SF) movement, they reveal specific instances of such processes at work. Examin
Engaging Kate Derickson and Paul Routledge's set of papers on scholar-activism, this paper reflec... more Engaging Kate Derickson and Paul Routledge's set of papers on scholar-activism, this paper reflects on what sorts of research values inspire and accompany scholaractivist research. We draw on multiple examples from research in Colombia and the United States, each of which speaks to the theme of food justice, broadly conceived. We pay attention to research "wants and needs," finding that specific outcomes (such as usable or compelling data) are only part of a wider array of desires and obligations that make scholar-activist partnerships valuable. Our examples demonstrate four distinct research valuessupportive networks, active science, productive discomfort, and affective moments, -that form a vision of scholar-activism that blurs the boundaries between research, political realities, and everyday lives, and seeks to confront real world challenges. The emphasis on active science is as intentional as it is surprising; scholar-activism has been pigeonholed by mainstream academia as a kind of research that doesn't square well with scientific outcomes. Meanwhile, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are being espoused as essential to solving contemporary problems. Thus, we emphasize that the knowledge, skills and values gained through broad engagement between scholar-activists and others in and out of academia can make scientific inquiry more socially relevant.
These advances in the physical and biological sciences provided much needed explanations for how ... more These advances in the physical and biological sciences provided much needed explanations for how the body functioned in health and disease. Leading scientists such as Claude Bernard developed the concept of internal physiological balance, later named homeostasis by Walter Cannon [2, . Edward Jenner introduced the method of vaccination, and Joseph Lister demonstrated the value of antisepsis . It was not long before those discoveries and others (e.g., Landsteiner's system of blood compatibility, Banting and insulin for diabetes) fundamentally strengthened the benefit of treatment for individual patients.
The notion of cultural acceptability is often called forth as a necessary component of food secur... more The notion of cultural acceptability is often called forth as a necessary component of food security, yet there is a lack of guidance in literature and policy as to how to operationalize this concept. Without specifying what cultural acceptability means, the concept risks becoming watered down, discounted, or obsolete in practice. This review strives to speak to those gaps by cataloging the connotations and implications of cultural acceptability in literature on urban food policy, food security, and associated topics. We explore the ways in which cultural acceptability has been invoked explicitly and implicitly in policy, planning, and scholarly literatures on food security in recent years in order to better understand what cultural acceptability has come to mean, how it is being utilized, and how it can be operationalized toward more flexible and appropriate urban food policy. We discuss ways in which cultural acceptability encapsulates more than certain types of food and literature that might provide dimension to the meaning and operationalization of cultural acceptability of food. Drawing on scholars that are breaking open understandings of cultural acceptability, we call attention to its complexity with reference to human rights-based approaches, cultural values evident in production and consumption processes, the importance of interweaving multiple knowledges, and challenging decision-making powers in today’s corporate food regime. Cultural valuations within these broad and fluid topics can provide important improvements to policy approaches to the cultural acceptability of food and are important for creating food security policy that is effective for meeting the needs of diverse populations.
Hayes-Conroy, A., & Sweet, E. L. (Online First) Whose adequacy? (Re) imagining food security with displaced women in Medellín, Colombia. Agriculture and Human Values, 1-12.
Food security scholarship and policy tends to embrace the nutrition status of individual men, wom... more Food security scholarship and policy tends to embrace the nutrition status of individual men, women and children as the end-goal of food security efforts. While there has been much value in investigating and trying to ensure sufficient nutrition for struggling households around the world, this overriding emphasis on nutrition status has reduced our understandings of what constitutes food adequacy. While token attention has been paid to more qualitative ideas like “cultural appropriateness,” food security scholars and policy makers have been unable to understand the broader value of food, which exceeds its caloric and nutrient counts. Drawing on empirical work from Medellín, Colombia, the paper argues that having adequate food means much more than simply sufficient nutrient intake, perhaps especially among marginalized groups. Exploring the case of food insecure women from Colombia who were forcibly displaced from rural to urban, we demonstrate how understandings of food adequacy must consider the social and environmental imaginaries of marginalized groups.
Visceral Geographies: Mattering, Relating, and Defying
Geography Compass, Jan 1, 2010
Abstract This study explores the task of doing 'visceral geograp... more Abstract This study explores the task of doing 'visceral geographies,'enrolling many areas of body-centered scholarship in the task of better understanding the visceral realm including geographies of affect and emotion, non-representational theory, sensuous and haptic geographies, health and disability studies, and scholarship on performance and movement. The authors desire to open lines of connection and communication between and beyond the current bounds of this scholarship. In doing so, the authors attempt to clarify the goals of ...
Mobilising bodies: visceral identification in the Slow Food movement
This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. Th... more This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. The authors emphasise how identity goes beyond cognitive labels to implicate the entire minded-body. It is suggested that political ideas, beliefs and self definitions require a bodily kind of resonance in order to activate various kinds of environmental and social activism. The authors refer to this bodily resonance as ‘visceral processes of identification’ and, through empirical investigation with the Slow Food (SF) movement, they reveal specific instances of such processes at work. Examining SF in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and Berkeley, California, USA, the authors ask how SF comes to feel in the bodies of members and non-members and they interrogate the role that feelings play in the development of activism(s). Bodies are shown to both align with movements’ socio-political aims and (re)create them. The account provides a means for shifting recent social theoretical attention to bodied/material life to a broad application in political geography, political ecology and social movement theory.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2010
This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. Th... more This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. The authors emphasise how identity goes beyond cognitive labels to implicate the entire minded-body. It is suggested that political ideas, beliefs and self definitions require a bodily kind of resonance in order to activate various kinds of environmental and social activism. The authors refer to this bodily resonance as 'visceral processes of identification' and, through empirical investigation with the Slow Food (SF) movement, they reveal specific instances of such processes at work. Examining SF in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and Berkeley, California, USA, the authors ask how SF comes to feel in the bodies of members and non-members and they interrogate the role that feelings play in the development of activism(s). Bodies are shown to both align with movements' socio-political aims and (re)create them. The account provides a means for shifting recent social theoretical attention to bodied ⁄ material life to a broad application in political geography, political ecology and social movement theory.
Visceral difference: variations in feeling (slow) food
This paper responds to concerns over a lack of diversity in alternative food movements by enterta... more This paper responds to concerns over a lack of diversity in alternative food movements by entertaining the possibility of understanding difference as a visceral process—a process of bodily feeling/sensation. Participatory research within and around the Slow Food (SF) movement reveals the complex role of feelings in motivating food actions and activism. On the whole, the cocreated data from this research illustrate that food is never ingested by itself: in the body, molecular connections develop between food and a countless array of other factors. Thus, food and food movements come to feel differently in different bodies as a result of inner-connected biological and social forces. In paying attention to such biosocial processes alternative food movements like SF may develop new understandings as to why they activate some people to participate in alternative food practices while chilling others. Accordingly the paper suggests that attentiveness to visceral feeling could enhance the ability of food movements to mobilize across difference.
Feeling Slow Food: Visceral fieldwork and empathetic research relations in the alternative food movement
This paper details the author’s experiments with accessing the visceral realm in research on the ... more This paper details the author’s experiments with accessing the visceral realm in research on the food-based social movement, Slow Food (SF). “Visceral” is defined as the bodily realm where feelings, sensations, moods and so on are experienced. Fieldwork methods aimed at participatory co-creation of data through verbal communications in the form of in-depth conversations and group discussions, as well as non-verbal communications in the form of “intentionally designed experiences” and other forms of sensory involvement. Communications centered on understanding how foods and food-based settings elicit feelings and sensations that move and power bodies differently, and specifically how SF guides bodies to be affected by specific foods and environments. The paper details how data were created and recorded, specifically exploring how sensory-based research events were translated to data through the creation of imagined bodily empathies. The paper also discusses the emergence of change-oriented communications that pushed for transformation in SF’s (in)attention to visceral differences, thus demonstrating how visceral research can challenge researchers and participants to critically reflect upon, and perhaps transform, how their own bodies feel (and respond to) the world.
Veggies and visceralities: A political ecology of food and feeling
Emotion, Space and Society, 2013
Abstract The 'alternative food'movement (encompassing both organic and ... more Abstract The 'alternative food'movement (encompassing both organic and local foods) has been critiqued for its racial and economic homogeneity, as well as its focus on individual choice and 'correct'knowledge. Nevertheless, the movement continues to gain in popularity within certain segments of the North American population (especially among white, middle class residents). In recent years, alternative food has also made its way into public schools–most notably through the guise of healthy eating. School Garden and Cooking Programs ( ...
Taking back taste: feminism, food and visceral politics
Despite much thoughtful agro-food scholarship, the politics of food lacks adequate appreciation b... more Despite much thoughtful agro-food scholarship, the politics of food lacks adequate appreciation because scholars have not developed a means to specify the links between the materialities of food and ideologies of food and eating. This article uses feminist theory to enliven a discussion of what the authors call visceral politics, and thus initiates a project of illustrating the mechanisms through which people's beliefs about food connect with their everyday experiences of food. Recent work on governed eating and material geographies is brought together with poststructural feminism in order to move towards a non-dualistic, visceral understanding of (everyday) socio-political life. In showing how the mind-body whole can be conceived as a singular, albeit ambiguously-unified agent, the article prefigures a more complete disclosure of the play of power in food systems. Food is shown as a means to trace power through the body in order to understand the making of the political (eating) subject. Specifically, reconceptualizing taste and the 'Slow Food' (SF) movement of taste education helps to concretize what a visceral politics of food might look like. The authors conclude that appreciating how food beliefs and representations exist materially in the body is crucial to the ability of food-based movements to inspire action across difference and achieve their progressive goals.
Progress in Human Geography, 2011
This third and final 'Geographies of food' review is based on an online blog conversation provoke... more This third and final 'Geographies of food' review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series . Authors of the work featured in these reviewsplus others whose work was not but should have been featured -were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about -and in the process review -other/new work within and beyond what could be called 'food geographies'. These conversations were coded, edited, arranged, discussed and rearranged to produce a fragmentary, multi-authored text aiming to convey the rich and multi-stranded content, breadth and character of ongoing food studies research within and beyond geography.
Abstract This third and final 'Geographies of food'review is based on an online blog conversation... more Abstract This third and final 'Geographies of food'review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews—plus others whose work was not but should have been featured—were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about—and in the process review—other/new work within and beyond what could be called 'food geographies'.
Geographies of Food:'Afters'
Progress in Human …, Jan 1, 2010
This third and final ‘Geographies of food’ review is based on an online blog conversation provoke... more This third and final ‘Geographies of food’ review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews – plus others whose work was not but should have been featured – were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people’s work, and to enter into conversations about – and in the process review – other/new work within and beyond what could be called ‘food geographies’. These conversations were coded, edited, arranged, discussed and rearranged to produce a fragmentary, multi-authored text aiming to convey the rich and multi-stranded content, breadth and character of ongoing food studies research within and beyond geography
Progress in Human Geography, 2010
This third and final 'Geographies of food' review is based on an online blog conversation provoke... more This third and final 'Geographies of food' review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series . Authors of the work featured in these reviewsplus others whose work was not but should have been featured -were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about -and in the process review -other/new work within and beyond what could be called 'food geographies'. These conversations were coded, edited, arranged, discussed and rearranged to produce a fragmentary, multi-authored text aiming to convey the rich and multi-stranded content, breadth and character of ongoing food studies research within and beyond geography.
Abstract This third and final 'Geographies of food'review is based on an online blog conversation... more Abstract This third and final 'Geographies of food'review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews—plus others whose work was not but should have been featured—were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about—and in the process review—other/new work within and beyond what could be called 'food geographies'.
This chapter is about emerging cultural geographies of food. It is the result of a collaborative ... more This chapter is about emerging cultural geographies of food. It is the result of a collaborative blog-to-paper process that led to an experimental, fragmented, dialogic text. Food is often researched precisely because it can help to vividly animate tensions between the small and intimate realms of embodiment, domesticity, and “ordinary affect” and the more sweeping terrain of global political economy, sustainability, and the vitality of “nature”. Food's cultural geographies, like cultural geography more broadly, can be “best characterized by powerful senses of texture, creativity and public engagement”. The explosion of academic interest in food geographies is a mirror to the explosion of public interest in, and public discourse about, all kinds of food matters.