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Call for Papers!
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Call for Papers!!!

Food, Culture and the Environment: Communicating About What We Eat

Call for manuscripts for special issue of
Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture
Volume #4, Issue #2 (2010)
Co-Editors: Andy Opel, Florida State University; Joseé Johnston,
University of Toronto;
Richard Wilk, Indiana University

Every day, humans literally eat the world. Our most intimate, daily contact with the natural world comes in the form of the food we eat and the liquids we drink. The environmental, political, and social implications of our food choices ripple across the planet, shaping
ecosystems, our bodies and the actual genetic structure of plants and animals. In recent years, discourses have emerged that renew our attention to food as a site of cultural struggle where language, power
and politics influence what we eat and how we eat it. Labels such as “natural,” “organic,” “free-range,” and “cruelty-free” direct our attention back to the food production process, reconnecting us to the environmental and industrial systems that produce and distribute our food.

From the “slow food” movement to concepts such as the locavore, food miles, low-carbon diet, edible schoolyard and community supported agriculture, food is attaining new levels of public awareness in-part
through new discursive formations. Global grassroots activists and authors such as Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle, Carlo Petrini, Wendall Berry and Vandana Shiva have been unpacking the political and cultural
dimensions of our food choices, serving up a buffet of issues and debates in need of scholarly attention.

We invite researchers worldwide who are working in the topic area of food and culture to submit manuscripts that analyze the meanings of food in the discourses of the media, commercial culture, social movements,
and public policy. How is language used to reveal and/or elide food production processes? What are the popular images of food, how are they produced and what do they tell us about our farms, our diets and our
politics? How is food being used to advance environmental agendas? What
do food labels tell us about the food we eat? What are the social justice components of our food and how are these connected to environmental justice? How are grassroots movements responding to corporate food production and distribution? These are examples of the questions that may be addressed in this special issue of Environmental Communication.

We seek manuscripts that analyze language, media representations, historical contexts, material and economic conditions, institutional
settings, political initiatives, practices of resistance, and/or the theoretical significance of discursive formations surrounding food. All
methodologies are appreciated and welcomed. Essays will be selected to
be academically sound, intellectually innovative, and conceptually relevant to communication about food.

Manuscripts should be formatted in Microsoft Word in a PC-compatible version (Mac users, please utilize the most current versions of Word and end your file names in “.doc”) and submitted electronically as attachments. E-mail messages to which manuscripts are attached should contain all authors’ name and affiliations. They should indicate a corresponding author, and include name, affiliation, e-mail address, postal address, and voice and fax telephone numbers for that person. Manuscripts should include an abstract of 150 words or less, including a
list of five suggested key words. Manuscripts should be prepared in 12-point font, should be double-spaced throughout, and should not exceed 8,000 words including references. The journal adheres to APA Style.
Manuscripts must not be under review elsewhere or have appeared in any
other published form. Upon notification of acceptance, authors must assign copyright to Taylor and Francis and provide copyright clearance for any copyrighted material. For further details on manuscript submission, please refer to the ‘Instructions for authors’ on the journal’s website.

The journal is published in English, and manuscripts must be submitted
in English. Please see the journal website
(http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17524032.asp) for manuscript guidelines. Manuscripts should be emailed to aopel@fsu.edu by August 31, 2009
Please disseminate this CFP to any colleagues that might be interested.


April 13, 2009 | 1:37 PM Comments  0 comments

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File Under Great Ideas: SecondHarvest.ca
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Monica, Richard, you got me thinking...wouldn't it be an interesting model to encourage restaurants, within limits that respect health and safety regulations, to form partnerships with the community and actively and consistently donate leftover food to food insecure individuals?

I wonder if this does happen already...and a quick google search revealed that Second Harvest does something similar: the organization picks up fresh, excess food that would otherwise go to waste and delivers it to about 250 social service organizations in the GTA.

http://www.secondharvest.ca/index.php

Even more importantly, in relation to your post, Richard, is that donors "are not liable for any risk associated with your donation. Second Harvest food donors are protected by Ontario's Donation of Food Act, 1994. This legislation protects those who, in good faith, donate or distribute fresh food."

Sounds like a GREAT organization with GREAT ideas. I wonder how many restaurants (and not just supermarkets) in the GTA are aware of Second Harvest - or if other direct delivery modes would be able to reach those who are in need, but are not in contact with social service organizations?

April 12, 2009 | 6:01 PM Comments  0 comments

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Grandma Knows Best
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"10 dietary tips from those aged 100+ "

Herring? Vegetables? Custard Cake? Donkey Milk? What is exactly the dietary key to longevity?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7974345.stm

This fluffy piece of feel good journalism actually got me thinking about so much: for example, "nutritionism" as mentioned in Monica's previous post about "7 rules" for food, and, in relation to the Heart Attack Grill conversation that is going on over on the Facebook boards: what exactly is our goal in health promotion, in the promotion of "healthy eating"? Is it really to live the longest? If eating a custard cake every morning will help you live to 115, would you do it? Do you care? Or is it really about the quality of those years, however you arrive there?

April 1, 2009 | 11:13 PM Comments  0 comments

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I got mad skills.
Related to this project: Food4Health

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So following up on some of previous posts lamenting my lack of appropriate culinary skills, I decided to make a change.

I went out to buy a cookbook.

I was looking for something specifically that would help me create quick, healthy meals for home and for lunch at work.

While browsing the bookshelves, I was struck by the fact that by far, most of the cookbooks related to healthy eating were either about dieting to lose weight or about special diets to follow if you have been diagnosed with a particular illness. I was also struck by the fact that this might reflect a broader problem with our relationship to food as a society. Either healthy eating is undertaken with the goal of losing weight, or for managing a situation/treatment once you are ill.

I happened to come across a book by the author Monica mentions in her post - Michael Pollan - called "In Defense of Food." I turned to the first page and read his deceptively simple maxim that underlies that "7 Rules" Monica posted: eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. Now that is something I can get behind, instead of trying to "eat right for my type" or be a "skinny bitch."

I read the "7 Rules" Monica posted, and a lot of what was said in that article really resonated with me and how I try to approach my relationship with food. I am often wary of the romanticizing of "days of yore" where families sat around the table together instead of in front of the TV, but the common sense approach to eating presented in this article is quite valuable. I especially appreciated this quote:

"Pollan says that where we've gone wrong is by focusing on the invisible nutrients in foods instead of on foods themselves. He calls this "nutritionism" -- an ideology that's lost track of the science on which it was based."

So I ended up buying "In Defense of Food" as well as a cookbook. I haven't read Pollan's book yet, but I have made some delicious mu-shu chicken, beet and goat cheese salad, and tomatoes stuffed with couscous. Yum. Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.


March 27, 2009 | 10:51 AM Comments  0 comments

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Stats=Awesome
Related to this project: Food4Health

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Statistics. Data. Boring. Snore, right?

Not necessarily!

Although perhaps a little off topic, but since this project is about new technology and social networks as well as food systems, I thought I'd share some fun tools that strive to bring the numbers to life - visual representations of data.

There's a neat tool you can use at worldmapper (www.worldmapper.org). Worldmapper is a collection of world maps where the countries are resized to show visual representations of indicators of interest by country - for example, income, HIV prevalence, or food imports or exports. For example, here's a map that shows deaths due to nutritional deficiencies:

http://www.worldmapper.org/display_extra.php?selected=411

Gapminder (www.gapminder.org) is a similar experiment in making data "come to life". Here's a link to one of Gapminder's founders, Hans Rosling from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, giving a presentation to the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference. Honestly, if you haven't seen this, you HAVE to watch it, it's awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI

March 22, 2009 | 12:25 PM Comments  0 comments

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