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.
A hub for new conversations about transdisciplinary humanities approaches with regard to food.
Aiming for range, variety and difference and to cut across the usual divisions of genres.
Articles
These articles are based on new research and contain careful analysis and argument with reference to other work in the field.
COVID -19 induced food security challenges in the urban periphery. A case of Mazowe District, Zimbabwe
This paper considers the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on food and nutritional security in Mazowe District, Zimbabwe. Oshneck Mupepi…
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…
Robertson’s Wine Farm Workers protest talk
Robertson’s Wine Farm Workers protest talk, held at the Gender Equity Unit (Sept 2015).
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Research Publications
Research publication of graduate students (Honors, MA, or PhD) theses. Students are likely to gain a wider reading audience, the chance to contribute to a research community, and offer support to other theses writers by their work on this site. Original place of publication and the university issuing the award of the degree is acknowledged.
Re-thinking “Soul Food”: An online Panel Discussion
Many foods, foodways and cuisines are romanticized in imaginings of community, ethnicity, national identity, family life or “the soul”. Although…
A Closer look at Black South African Women’s lifestyle and food consumption choices and the effects of globalisation in contemporary South Africa
This thesis considers how factors of urbanisation and globalisation affect people’s lifestyle and food consumption choices and how this may…
Re-reading “Africa” Through Food
African social and cultural processes and struggles have been extensively explored in music, performance, the visual arts and oral and…
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Essays and Opinions
Essays and opinions are adaptable formats for writers to write on a wide range of subjects which includes personal reflections, and are provocative and critical.
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…
Food as healing: building resilience
When I was growing up, my parents ran a canteen in a shoe factory in Port Elizabeth. Back then, the…
Thinking through transdisciplinarity: Dis-ease workshop
By Prof Desiree Lewis The State of Dis-ease transdisciplinary workshop organized by Beth Vale for the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced…
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Creative Hub
Report-backs on meetings, conferences workshops etc. Assessments of key events or processes. Lectures, seminar or conference papers or public talks related to food studies. Reviews of articles, books, films, exhibitions and art events. “In conversation”: Interviews, as well as debate and argument among two or more. Creative and artistic expressions both fictional and non-fictional related to food studies.
Painting By: Cynthia Nair
Cynthia Nair’s paintings draw critically on several aesthetic and cultural influences. One of these is the impressionist, Paul Gauguin, with…
Painting By: Zulfa Abrahams
Zulfa Abrahams is an artists who has taught in the English, Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology Departments at the…
Seeds from the Street to the Seas
“Reviving seeds as commons, through a telling of seeds as story, we move from seed as object to seed as…
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