Give the Gift of Waste this Christmas
As part of the European Week for Waste Reduction, Hubbub and the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) are hosting a range of £5 cooking session across seven North…
Tag: food
What Did Malinowski Eat in Papua?
Malinowski inspecting a Trobriand girl’s soulava necklace. Photo courtesy of Michael Young. One hundred years ago (June 27, 1915 to be precise), Bronislaw Malinowski arrived in the Trobriand…
Roundtable reviews of “Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology”
If you’re interested in the history of pesticides and toxicology, Banned provides a detail-oriented, close reading of key 20th century experiments, legislative hearings, events, and texts to investiga…
Food, Culture, and Social Justice in Oregon and Ecuador
Joan Gross Oregon State University 2016 Intercultural Learning Community with Oregon State University The goal of this learning community is to gather a multicultural group of people (undergraduate…
CFP: Food waste scholarship: Recent advances and perspectives from a fragmented field of study
Organised by the International Food Waste and Food Loss Studies Group, this AAG session will: 1) Provide a forum for food waste scholars to share their work, and…
anthro in the news 9/28/15
Mural in New York City, September 2015 (Source: Anthony DelMundo / NY Daily News) What the Pope said Two media sources included commentary from anthropologists about the Pope’s…
Dumpsters, difference, and illiberal embodiment
Food Not Bombs and endeavors like it, I would argue, also create the conditions to queer categories of embodiment like race, class, and sex and interrogate their privileged…
Malthus and the #EXPO2015
The subject of EXPO 2015 is “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, which coincides with the “European Year for Development”. The European page contains the slogan “How can…
REDUX: #Review: Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World #postsocialism
Patterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last few decades, the ways in which food is…
Searching for (post-)Soviet taste #postsocialism
This project was inspired by a curiosity in whether people from the former Soviet states, more than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, share similar…
Food Banks: Canned Justice or Fuel For activism?
By Aaron Vansintjan. How the food industry made waste ‘benevolent’. Food Banks: Canned Justice or Fuel For activism?
Alimentary Uncertainties: From Contested Evidence to Policy — A special issue of BioSocieities by Aaron Seaman
The June 2015 issue of BioSocieties is a special issue guest edited by Emilia Sanabria and Emily Yates-Doerr, entitled “Alimentary uncertainties: From contested evidence to policy.” The is…
#REVIEW: Food Between the Country and the City
I welcomed the opportunity to see how scholars of food studies would make use of one of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite books, Raymond Williams’The Country and the City. Williams…
#Review: Every Twelve Seconds. Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
Long-term vegetarian (and member of The Beatles) Paul McCartney famously observed that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all become vegetarians. Part of the motivation behind Timothy…
#REVIEW: Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town
In his book Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town, anthropologist Nir Avieli brings to light the importance of understanding the historical and socio-cultural elements that…
Living it up in Lisbon: A “best of” by two residents
After nearly three years living in Lisbon, Gawain and I have racked up a pretty good knowledge of its sights, museums, eating places, and drinking dwellings. In fact,…
‘Gene driven change is much more the norm’
A tweet was directed my way by ziel (@yourlyingeyes). I had tweeted in response to some new HBD silliness that in most cases a genetic explanation is worth…
Observing a McDonald’s Drive Through
Observing the McDonald’s drive-through at the corner of Pape and Cosburn, Toronto, Ontario What can you observe in 30 minutes? Last February 20th I had lunch at a…