[Bilimsel Haber] Call for Submissions: "Food, Migration, and Movement" - deadline March 1, 2012

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Ari Ariel <ari.ariel at nyu.edu>


Call for Submissions : Food, Migration, and Movement

Food is a common and constant variable among us; everyone must eat. 
Vandal is looking for fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, photographs, 
interviews and visual art that engages the theme: food, migration, and 
movement.

We interpret this call as broadly as possible, to include all topics 
that deal with food/foodways, and migration or political movement(s). 
The movement of food(s) and people(s) has always intimately connected 
politics, culture, and identity, marking 'us' and 'them'. Food 
migrations are surely among the most globally transformative moments in 
recorded history. Christopher Columbus sailed in search of spices, and 
sugar was inextricable in the trade triangle that brought so many 
enslaved Africans to the "New World." Sugar, coffee and cocoa remain 
among the most traded commodities worldwide. As food often reflects 
public policy's focus, food also becomes the vehicle through which we 
voice our politics. These expressions can be witnessed in government 
corn subsidies, hunger strikes, the establishment of local community 
farms and protests on every continent resulting from rising food prices 
within the last year. Our options or lack of options in food ultimately 
effect health and culture. To engage food is to engage the most crucial 
aspects of all societies.

Please submit to: foodmigration at vandaljournal.com *Deadline:  March 1, 2012


Vandal is a new literary/art journal for transformative social change 
founded in 2009 in College Station, Texas and associated with Texas A&M. 
It publishes scholarly and artistic fiction, non-fiction, art and 
literature. For more information see:
http://www.vandaljournal.com/