5-0805 ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES TO FOOD ACTIVISM: AGENCY, DEMOCRACY, AND ECONOMY

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Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-17:30

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers: Valeria Siniscalchi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and Carole M Counihan (Millersville University)

Chairs: Valeria Siniscalchi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and Carole M Counihan (Millersville University)

13:45

Planting In Deserts: Social Justice and Gardening In Grand Rapids, Michigan

Inez F Adams (Michigan State University and Michigan State University)

14:00

Taste, Emotion, Connection, and Food Activism in Italy

Carole M Counihan (Millersville University)

14:15

Food Activists: Issues of Structure and Agency

Joan Gross (Oregon State)

14:30

City of Gastronomy: Global Recognition, Cultural Assets and Culinary Activism In New Orleans

David I Beriss (University of New Orleans)

14:45

SOS Cooking Matters: Crafting Coalitions for Ending Childhood Hunger by 2015

Ellen Messer (Independent)

15:00

Breastfeeding Advocacy As Food Activism

Penny Van Esterik (York University)

15:15

Break

15:30

The Seed and the Citizen: Building a Fiction of Democracy

Birgit Muller PhD (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

15:45

Food Activism In South India

Joan P Mencher (CUNY)

16:00

‘without Corn There Is No Country’: Struggling for Maize Sovereignty In Mexico’s Neoliberal Food Regime

Elizabeth M Fitting (Dalhousie University)

16:15

De-Centering Slow Food: The Redefinition of Food Activism within Indigenous Communities

Amanda Sophie Green (Oregon State)

16:30

Linking the Right to Food and Peasants’ Rights

Marc Edelman (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)

16:45

Truth and Traceability: Transparent Commodities and New Legal Subjectivities In Honduras

Daniel Reichman (University of Rochester)

17:00

The Slow Food Presidia and the Moral Economy of Food

Valeria Siniscalchi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

17:15

Discussion

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