Beyond the Pot:
Story-ed South African Flavours

This cookbook project aims to gather various narratives (autobiographical, fictional, biographical and ethnographic) that foreground descriptions of dishes and their ingredients and/or recipes. Contributions would therefore range from memories of dishes made by others during childhood, favourite personal meals, dishes that have made an impact while travelling or eating out etc.

Call for Contributions:

  • Closing Date for Submissions: 30 October 2024

This is a humanities focused project and not a traditional recipe book that concentrates on gastronomy or cultural studies. Instead, we are looking for stories that integrate the social histories of food stuffs (particularly ingredients), foodwork, and the sensorial narratives that depict aspects of belonging and identification.

Call for Contributions:
Beyond the Pot: Story-ed South African Flavours

  • Closing Date: 30 October 2024

Beyond the Pot: Story-ed South African Flavours is a humanities focused project looking for stories that integrate the social histories of food stuffs (particularly ingredients), foodwork, and the sensorial narratives that depict aspects of belonging and identification.

Kunda

The pot, or the Kunda, was one of the few things many of the indentured slaves and passengers from India took with them when they crossed over the Kalapani. This film looks at practices of the kitchen of South African Indians, teasing apart complex and interwoven strands of identity and history.

Elandskloof Project

In 1996, Elandskloof hit news headlines as the first successful land claim in a newly democratic South Africa. Seventy-six families returned to die magie in a ceremony presided over by a jubilant Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs, Derek Hanekom. However, over the coming decades, the contradictions in a deeply flawed restitution process came to the fore: land without the capital to develop it, and a group of claimants many decades removed from a meaningful relationship with the business of rural livelihoods, carrying the scars of the struggle for survival under apartheid.

Cultural heritage and risk assessments: Gaps, challenges, and future research directions for the inclusion of heritage within climate change adaptation and disaster management

Cultural heritage shapes our identity, delivers capacities, and exposes vulnerabilities, yet cultural heritage value and vulnerability are largely missing from conventional risk assessments. Risk assessments are a fundamental first step…
Read More Cultural heritage and risk assessments: Gaps, challenges, and future research directions for the inclusion of heritage within climate change adaptation and disaster management

Cultural heritage and risk assessments: Gaps, challenges, and future research directions for the inclusion of heritage within climate change adaptation and disaster management

Cultural heritage shapes our identity, delivers capacities, and exposes vulnerabilities, yet cultural heritage value and vulnerability are largely missing from conventional risk assessments. Risk assessments are a fundamental first step…
Read More Cultural heritage and risk assessments: Gaps, challenges, and future research directions for the inclusion of heritage within climate change adaptation and disaster management

Elandskloof CRITICAL Food

A short film produced on the Elandskloof project (second phase).

Submissions to Critical Food Studies

Share your work to help grow the humanities archives on critical food research and conversations. If you would like to submit an article, essay, opinion piece or artwork, please click the button below to learn more about our submissions process.


Our Archive

The website seeks to build a community of readers and contributors of writing artwork, poetry and photography who are interested in critical food studies from transdisciplinary perspectives. It provides an archive of critical work for established and emerging scholars, and also expands on existing archives of knowledge-making by opening up a platform for visual and creative work as distinct forms of “knowledge making”, and not merely as adjuncts to or illustrations. We aim for range, variety and difference and to cut across the usual divisions of genres.

Virtual Seminars

By focusing primarily on food cultures and politics in South Africa, this project seeks to strengthen analysis of food, society and culture in the global South and the global North. Recognizing that current globalization requires this transnational attention, the Project is committed to creating and strengthening a research community across disciplinary and geographical boundaries

Virtual Seminar 4:

Embracing Contemporarity

‘Theorising and Living Our Feminist Futures’ by Patricia McFadden

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