[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies (Special Issue: Food and Power)

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Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies

Special Issue: Food and Power

Editors: Ezekiel Flannery (Purdue University Calumet) 

Diana Mincyte (University of Illinois)

Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2008 (800-1000 words) 

Send abstracts to Ezekiel Flannery at flannerye at calumet.purdue.edu

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. 

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. 

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. 

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:

*Food and science

*Food and modernity/coloniality

*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

Publication Schedule:

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.

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 @  <http://csc.sagepub.com/>
http://csc.sagepub.com/.

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Prof. Richard Wilk 
Indiana University, Anthropology and Gender Studies 
Leverhulme Fellow, Anthropology Dept. University College London 

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London 
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