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:
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
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
“Elandskloof: A Chronology of Loss”
“Peppers bring sweetness to Elandskloof restitution site”
“Elandskloof: A Chronology of Loss”
Cultural heritage and risk assessments: Gaps, challenges, and future research directions for the inclusion of heritage within climate change adaptation and disaster management
“TOWARDS A CLIMATE OF CHANGE: Symposium”
“Peppers bring sweetness to Elandskloof restitution site”
“Transnational Perspectives on Food, Ecology and the Anthropocene”
While food is at the core of what it means to be human because we need it to sustain ourselves, it is not just the case that ‘we are what we eat’ because our collective lives and cultures are structured around and relate to food in multifaceted ways that prompt deeper questions.
Matatu: Journal of African Culture and Society titled “South African Food Studies”
Introducing a special issue of Matatu titled “South African Food Studies,” this essay argues for the importance of food as a lens for understanding contemporary culture and society.
“Transnational Perspectives on Food, Ecology and the Anthropocene”
While food is at the core of what it means to be human because we need it to sustain ourselves, it is not just the case that ‘we are what we eat’ because our collective lives and cultures are structured around and relate to food in multifaceted ways that prompt deeper questions.
Matatu: Journal of African Culture and Society titled “South African Food Studies”
Introducing a special issue of Matatu titled “South African Food Studies,” this essay argues for the importance of food as a lens for understanding contemporary culture and society.
Reflections on Celebrating Five Years of Critical Food Studies
Reflections on Celebrating Five Years of Critical Food Studies, with Launch of Agenda, special issue, “Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Food and Ecology”
This gathering of students, PIs, colleagues from UWC, UP and UKZN as well as members of NGOS and other research…
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.
Invisible Urban Farmers and a Next Season of Hunger
Participatory Co-research during Lockdown in Cape Town, South Africa By Nomonde Buthelezi, Razack Karriem, Stefanie Lemke, Nicole Paganini,Silke Stöber, and…
Zifunyanwa ngabatheni? Parcelling out food during the South African lockdown
By Sivuyisiwe Veronica Wonci Sivuyisiwe Veronica Wonci critically reflects on her experience with food parcels during COVID19 in Plettenberg Bay…
Food – Where private and public intersect
By Angelo Fick Food represents the encounter between the private and the political, the individual and the world. Whether growing…
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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