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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.


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