Food, Agriculture and Social Change: The Everyday Vitality of Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781138214972 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 234 str.

Stephen G. Sherwood; Alberto Arce; Myriam Paredes

Opis

In recent years food studies scholarship has tended to focus on a number of increasingly abstract, largely unquestioned concepts, in particular with regard to how capital, markets and states organize and operate. This has led to a gulf between public policy and the realities of food as experienced by people in homes and on the streets. Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, each of which seeks to explain development as it uniquely unfolds, this book explores how social change in food and agriculture is fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable. In viewing development in food as a socio-political-material experience, the authors find new objects, (inter)subjectivities and associations. These reveal a multiplicity of processes, relationships, effects and affects largely absent in current academic literature. In their attention to the contingency and creativity found in households, neighbourhoods and social networks as well as at the borders of human/non-human experience, the book explores how people diversely meet their food demands while confronting today s most pressing agriculture and food concerns in the region."

Spis treści

Introduction: Food Embodiments, Assemblages and Intersubjectivities in Latin America – Ebbs and Flows of Critical Food Studies  Alberto Arce, Stephen Sherwood and Myriam Paredes  1. Embodiment and Reflexivity: Gaining Insight into Food Lifeways through the Chili Cook-off in Ajijic, Mexico  Eleanor Fisher, Alberto Arce and Vladimir Diaz Copado  2. Creating Healthy Bodies in Rural Ecuador at a Time of Dietary Shift  Joan Gross, Carla Guerrón-Montero, Michaela Hammer and Peter Berti  3. Finding the Food by Hiding the Gold: Andoque Abundance, Mining, and Food in the Colombian Amazon  Camilo Torres and Gerard Verschoor  4. Encounters with the Brazilian Soybean Boom: Transnational Farmers and the Cerrado  Andrew Ofstehage  5. Affective Struggles in the Desert: Bringing to Bear Water on Agriculture and Food  Horacio Narváez-Mena  6. People, Cows and Milking Machines: Public Policy and New Inter-subjectivities in Ecuador  Nicolas Vasconcellos  7. Forgive Me for Being Human: Wirikuta Nomadism and Rebellious Peyote  Oscar F. Reyna  8. Feeding Paradise? Corporeal Food Citizenship in the Galapagos  Christine Franke, Jessica Duncan, and Stephen Sherwood  9. Unfolding Agencies and Associations of Agroecology Networks in Brazil  Flávia Charão-Marques, Claudia Schmitt and Daniela Oliveira  10. Deepening Relationships through Bio-intensive Food: AgroSano in Oaxaca  Charlynne Curiel  11. Public Good: Wheat Assemblages and the Revalorization of Culinary and Handicraft in Bio-Bio, Chile  Paola Silva, Maruja Cortés and Alberto Arce  12. Affectivity in Public Procurement: The Case of New Dawn Cooperative and the Elderly in Argentina  María Laura Viteri  13. Assembling Responsible Food Markets: The Case of Cooperativa La Manzana in Southern Chile  Gustavo Blanco, Jilles van Gastel and Andrés Lagarrigue  14. 250 Thousand Families Campaign: The Existence of Flavor and Taste  Stephen Sherwood, Ana Deaconu and Myriam Paredes  15. Conclusion: The Vitality of Every Day Food  Stephen Sherwood, Eleanor Fisher and Alberto Arce