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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Special Issue: Food and Power</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Editors: Ezekiel Flannery (Purdue University
Calumet) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Diana Mincyte (University of Illinois)</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2008 (800-1000 words)
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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Send abstracts to Ezekiel Flannery at
flannerye@calumet.purdue.edu</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>This special issue of Cultural Studies-Critical
Methodologies focuses on the problematics of food and eating from a range of
critical perspectives. We invite contributions that address issues of food and
power, knowledge, culture, science and technology, and (de)colonialism.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>All cultures must transform nature or natural
materials into subsistence and these transformations involve many socio-cultural
processes. Focusing on these processes illuminates inequalities of class,
race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and age, among others, which are increasingly
global in scope. Food also reveals a culture’s way of knowing and relating to
nature, its conceptualization of hygiene, its imperial/colonial experiences, and
its national and ethnic identities. In short, the processes surrounding food
give insight into a culture’s overall way of living or cosmology. In the modern
or modern/colonial regime, the transformation of nature into food also involves
a specific configuration of capital, science, technology, and powerful
institutions that work together to standardize diets and everyday experiences
with food, including the methods and knowledge used to produce it. This in turn
has led to the creation of a standardized discourse which is used to speak about
food. In addition to the macro-politics, food-related processes also function as
a resource for individual protest as well as a community-building space and a
ritual for the reaffirmation of group alliances. To take into account the
complexities of food and eating, this special issue will focus on food as a
series of social processes which highlight the hierarchies within and between
human, economic, technological and natural systems. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>With this in mind, we invite a critical discussion
of what is understood by the term food and how food-related processes can be
contextualized politically and ethically. We are interested in articles that
move beyond (Northern) political-economy perspectives that often center on food
production, consumption and distribution. We strongly encourage submissions that
examine experiences, practices, and discourses surrounding food, through which
power relations are produced. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>In addition to these issues we seek contributions
from a wide range of perspectives on the intersection between food, ethics and
politics. This includes but is not limited to:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>*Food and science</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>*Food and modernity/coloniality</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>*Race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and
nutritional politics *Body politics and food *Hunger and globalization
*Environmental politics and food *Food and ideological systems *Food
safety/bio-terrorism *Food industrialization and standardization *Green
marketplaces</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Publication Schedule:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Full manuscripts will be due July 1, 2008. Final
drafts will be due November 1, 2008. Manuscripts should follow APA style and be
no more than 30 pages in length. This special issue of Cultural Studies-Critical
Methodologies will appear in the first half of 2009.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Cultural Studies--Critical Methodologies is a
peer-reviewed interdisciplinary quarterly journal published by Sage and devoted
to promoting those scholarly traditions in the social sciences and the
humanities which are premised on a critical, performance-based cultural studies
agenda at the intersection of interpretive theory, critical methodology,
culture, media, history, biography and social structure. Visit the web page of
the journal @ </FONT><A href="http://csc.sagepub.com/"><U><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>http://csc.sagepub.com/</FONT></U></FONT></A><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>-- </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Prof. Richard Wilk <BR>Indiana University,
Anthropology and Gender Studies <BR>Leverhulme Fellow, Anthropology Dept.<SPAN
class=445584407-06022008> </SPAN>University College London </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>14 Taviton Street <BR>London <BR>WC1H 0BW,
<BR><BR>cell 07852152671 <BR>US Phone 812 961 8190</FONT></P>
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