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Gord, Charna. "A Dietetics Imaginary." Critical Dietetics 1, no. 1 (June 22, 2011): 20–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.32920/cd.v1i1.834.
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Dietetics, as a profession, was shaped by the social and historical conditions from which it emerged in the 1800s. The professional narrative and socialization process which has been passed down since then has become outdated and a revision would benefit practitioners, academics, colleagues and patients alike. By using personal narrative to place one dietitian’s story within the larger collective story, this paper encourages members of the dietetic profession to work together to build a dietetics imaginary. The shared construction of a dietetics imaginary could be accomplished by moving out of and away from our familiar ways of being, by welcoming our differences and by inviting dialogue with others working in connected areas, such as food security. The discourse on food in our new professional narrative could include deeply personal, cultural and nurturing dimensions of a safe and democratic food system.
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Snodin, David. "Food toxicology: Real or imaginary problems?" Food Chemistry 19, no. 3 (January 1986): 241–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0308-8146(86)90074-9.
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Netter, K. J. "Food toxicology — Real or imaginary problems?" Toxicology 37, no. 3-4 (December 1985): 330–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0300-483x(85)90100-3.
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Mebs, D. "Food Toxicology, Real or Imaginary Problems?" Toxicon 25, no. 4 (January 1987): 467. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0041-0101(87)90098-5.
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Martínez-Abraín, A. "Imaginary populations." Animal Biodiversity and Conservationa 33, no. 1 (2010): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.32800/abc.2010.33.0117.
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A few years ago, Camus & Lima (2002) wrote an essay to stimulate ecologists to think about how we define and use a fundamental concept in ecology: the population. They concluded, concurring with Berryman (2002), that a population is ‘a group of individuals of the same species that live together in an area of sufficient size to permit normal dispersal and/or migration behaviour and in which population changes are largely the results of birth and death processes’. They pointed out that ecologists often forget ‘to acknowledge that many study units are neither natural nor even units in terms of constituting a population system’, and hence claimed that we ‘require much more accuracy than in past decades in order to be more effective to characterize populations and predict their behaviour’. They stated that this is especially necessary ‘in disciplines such as conservation biology or resource pest management, to avoid reaching wrong conclusions or making inappropriate decisions’. As a population ecologist and conservation biologist I totally agree with these authors and, like them, I believe that greater precision and care is needed in the use and definition of ecological terms. The point I wish to stress here is that we ecologists tend to forget that when we use statistical tools to infer results from our sample to a population we work with what statisticians term ‘imaginary’, ‘hypothetical’ or ‘potential’ popula-tions. As Zar (1999) states, if our sample data consist of 40 measurements of growth rate in guinea pigs “the population about which conclusions might be drawn is the growth rates of all the guinea pigs that conceivably might have been administered the same food supplement under identical conditions”. Such a population does not really exist, and hence it is considered a hypothetical or imaginary population. Compare that definition with the population concept that would be in our minds when performing such measurements. We would probably assume that our study population consisted of pigs (not the growth rates of pigs!) and probably all the pigs at the farm we were sampling, rather than the all the growth rates of the pigs that might conceivably have been administered the same food. We overlook the fact that we are using the statistical tools to try to estimate ecological population para-meters (and test specific hypotheses on the values of these population parameters) but that the ecological population which is in our minds and the statistical (imaginary) population of our tests need not necessarily be the same (and most often are not). So, to avoid wrong inferences (with wide-ranging consequences if we are dealing with decision-making processes) we should do all we possibly can to ensure that our natural populations are as similar as possible to the imaginary populations of statisticians, or at least we should discuss our results within the framework in which our inference was developed. Statistics is not an ad hoc tool invented for us, but rather a tool that we have borrowed from statisticians for our purposes. We should always keep this in mind.
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López, José Julián. "The Human Right to Food as Political Imaginary." Journal of Historical Sociology 30, no. 2 (May 13, 2015): 239–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/johs.12098.
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McCarthy, Lucy, Anne Touboulic, and Lee Matthews. "Voiceless but empowered farmers in corporate supply chains: Contradictory imagery and instrumental approach to empowerment." Organization 25, no. 5 (April 10, 2018): 609–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508418763265.
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There have been calls for a shift of focus toward the political and power-laden aspects of transitioning toward socially equitable global supply chains. This article offers an empirically grounded response to these calls from a critical realist stance in the context of global food supply chains. We examine how an imaginary for sustainable farming structured around an instrumental construction of empowerment limits what is viewed as permissible, desirable, and possible in global food supply chains. We adopt a multimodal critical discourse analysis to examine the sustainable farming imaginary for smallholder farmers constructed by one large organization, Unilever, in a series of videos produced and disseminated on YouTube. We expose the underlying mechanisms of power and marginalization at work within the sustainability imaginary and show how ‘empowerment’ has the potential to create new dependencies for these farmers. We recontextualize the representations to show that while the imaginary may be commercially feasible, it is less achievable in terms of empowering smallholder farmers.
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Niewolny, Kim L. "Boundary politics and the social imaginary for sustainable food systems." Agriculture and Human Values 38, no. 3 (May 2, 2021): 621–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10460-021-10214-0.
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AbstractIn this essay, Kim Niewolny, current President of AFHVS, responds to the 2020 AFHVS Presidential Address given by Molly Anderson. Niewolny is encouraged by Anderson’s message of moving “beyond the boundaries” by focusing our gaze on the insurmountable un-sustainability of the globalized food system. Anderson recommends three ways forward to address current challenges. Niewolny argues that building solidarity with social justice movements and engendering anti-racist praxis take precedence. This work includes but is not limited to dismantling the predominance of neoliberal-fueled technocratic productivism in agricultural science and policy while firmly centering civil society collective action and human rights frameworks as our guiding imaginary for racial, gender, environmental, and climate justice possibilities for sustainable food systems praxis. She concludes by exploring the epistemic assertion to push beyond our professional and political imaginaries to build a more fair, just, and humanizing food system.
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Hanna, Barbara E. "Eating a home: food, imaginary selves and Study Abroad testimonials." Higher Education Research & Development 35, no. 6 (March 24, 2016): 1196–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2016.1160876.
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Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. "Challenging the Agrarian Imaginary: Farmworker-Led Food Movements and the Potential for Farm Labor Justice." Human Geography 7, no. 1 (March 2014): 85–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277861400700107.
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This article addresses the need for more engagement between the alternative food movement and the food labor movement in the United States. Drawing on the notion of agrarian imaginary, I argue for the need to break down divides between producer and consumer, rural and urban, and individual and community based approaches to changing the food system. I contend that farmworker-led consumer-based campaigns and solidarity movements, such as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) current Campaign for Fair Food, and The United Farmworkers’ historical grape boycotts, successfully work to challenge this imaginary, drawing consumers into movement-based actions. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with farmworkers and farmworker advocates in California and Florida, this research illustrates the possibilities for alternative food movement advocates and coalitions to build upon farmworker-led campaigns and embrace workers as leaders.
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Banoth, Sudheer Kumar. "Imaginary Maps: Ecocritical Reading of Mahasweta Devi's Works." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN HUMANITIES 5, no. 1 (April 19, 2017): 229–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jah.v5i1.6452.
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When the Sagwana, or the saga forests, were felled, the Korjus, who were food gatherers, became a condemned people....The Korjus ate reori seeds, tuber, roots, fruits, nuts, deer, birds, hares and monitor lizards. Their brains ceased to function when the forest died.
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Chapman, G. P. "Developing real imaginary countries." Irrigation and Drainage Systems 3, no. 3 (October 1989): 309–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01112812.
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Adams, Joel C. "Alice, middle schoolers & the imaginary worlds camps." ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 39, no. 1 (March 7, 2007): 307–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1227504.1227418.
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Gerosa, Alessandro. "Cosmopolitans of regionalism: dealers of omnivorous taste under Italian food truck economic imaginary." Consumption Markets & Culture 24, no. 1 (February 27, 2020): 30–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2020.1731483.
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Yamaguchi, Tomiko. "Social imaginary and dilemmas of policy practice: The food safety arena in Japan." Food Policy 45 (April 2014): 167–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2013.06.014.
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Niewolny, Kim L. "AFHVS 2021 Presidential Address: critical praxis and the social imaginary for food systems transformation." Agriculture and Human Values 39, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10460-021-10278-y.
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Macholz, R., R. Macholz, R. Macholz, R. Macholz, R. Macholz, R. Macholz, R. Macholz, et al. "Food Toxicology – Real or Imaginary Problems? Herausgegeben von G. G. Gibson und R. Walker. 403 Seiten, zahlr. Abb. und Tab. Taylor & Francis, London, Philadelphia 1985. Preis: 40,- £." Food / Nahrung 29, no. 10 (1985): 1020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/food.19850291016.
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Sava, Eleonora. "Images of Time in the Romanian Folk Chronotope." Caietele Echinox 38 (June 30, 2020): 236–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2020.38.19.
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This study proposes an analysis of the imagery of time in Romanian folklore, as it is outlined in a series of mythological narratives and beliefs recorded by ethnographers in the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. The concept of chronotope is used as an analytical tool for understanding the imaginary universe of Romanian folklore. The analysed narratives encapsulate a set of ideas and representations regarding the social norms of the peasant communities in which the figures of weekly time – Saint Wednesday, Saint Friday, Marțolea (Tuesday-Evening), Joimărița (Thursday-Night), etc. – play a central role. Analysing these figures of time, the study reveals their function as guardians of compliance with traditional norms referring to conduct, work and food. The study also highlights the fact that chronotopes perform the role of cognitive schemes of the Romanian folklore imaginary.
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Zorjan, Saša, Daniela Schwab, and Anne Schienle. "The effects of imaginary eating on visual food cue reactivity: An event-related potential study." Appetite 153 (October 2020): 104743. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104743.
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Valentin, Koné Bognan, Fokou Gilbert, Kouadio Baya Bouaki, Brigit Obrist, Roch Yao Gnabeli, and Bassirou Bonfoh. "Pratique d’Interdits Alimentaires: Entre Logique Identitaire, Enjeux Sanitaires Et Conservation De La Biodiversité Chez Les Agni De Bongouanou (Côte d’Ivoire)." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 14, no. 27 (September 30, 2018): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2018.v14n27p82.
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Social norms are depriving Agni communities of Bongouanou in central-eastern Côte d’Ivoire of certain foods adding to a state of food insecurity. Based on significant cases of food restrictions, this study analyzed nutritional practices that position individuals and groups in social normative frameworks. This work focused on institutional frameworks where health and food taboo aspects were most shared. This study aims to analyze the social imaginaries associated with food restriction and their link to health in a context of food insecurity. More particularly, it aims at exploring beliefs and representations associated with health risks due to food restrictions. Based on a qualitative approach using data collection techniques as direct observation, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions, this study was conducted in four villages where the consumption of catfish by local populations is totally prohibited. Social identity theory and the cultural materialism perspective were used for analysis and interpretation of knowledge and beliefs associated with food restrictions. The non-consumption of catfish from the Socotè Lake participated to sociability and the preservation of the indigenous "Agni of Bongouanou" identity. Additionally, food restrictions are determinants of physical and reproductive health of members of the social group. In fact, the collective imaginary of Agni from Bongouanou establishes a causal link between the consumption of this restricted food and health problems. Finally, it has emerged that this food practice could impact the cultural well-being of the community while contributing to the conservation of biodiversity.
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Rodrigues, Naíza Carvalho, Marize Melo dos Santos, Suzana Maria Rebêlo Sampaio da Paz, Adriana de Azevedo Paiva, Thaís Rodrigues Nogueira, Betânia de Jesus e. Silva de Almendra Freitas, and Cecília Maria Resende Gonçalves de Carvalho. "Feelings reported by adolescents after food ingestion: a comparative study." ABCS Health Sciences 45 (October 22, 2020): e020014. http://dx.doi.org/10.7322/abcshs.45.2020.1323.
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Introduction: Food is closely linked with emotions in a complex relationship. The imaginary and symbolic meaning attributed to food has been little studied and the act of eating needs to be better understood. Objective: To analyze the association of adolescents´ feelings to selected foods. Methods: Cross-sectional study with 995 adolescents from public and private schools in Teresina, PI, Brazil. It was a Supplementary Project to the Brazilian national survey ERICA (Estudo de Riscos Cardiovasculares em Adolescentes). Adolescents had to choose one of the following feelings to selected food: well-being/satisfaction, malaise, no feeling, aversion. For the option aversion, the participant had to indicate if it was related to smell, color, appearance, or taste. Adolescents´ feelings to foods were analyzed by type of school, sex, and age range, using Pearson's chi-square (c²) or Fisher's exact tests. Results: There was significant differences regarding the type of school for the feeling to chocolate (p=0.015); vegetables (p=0.003); leafy greens (p=0.005); healthy sandwich/natural fruit juice (p≤0.001); high fat red meat (p=0.046); fruit/natural fruit juice (p≤0.001). For sex, there was significant difrerences for healthy sandwich/natural fruit juice (p=0.001); beans and rice (p=0.021) and high fat red meat (p=0.005). There was significant differences between age groups for sandwich, chips, soda and ice cream (p=0.018); pasta (p=0.047) and high fat red meat (p=0.021). Well-being predominated in almost all foods and aversion was poorly reported. Conclusion: The results suggest that adolescents' feelings are not directed to specific foods.
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DUTTON, JACQUELINE. "The Utopian Future of Food in Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s’il en fut jamais (1771)." Australian Journal of French Studies 58, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 24–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2021.03.
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Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s novel L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante: rêve s’il en fut jamais (1771) was the first futuristic utopia—or “uchronia”—and its treatment of food reveals that alimentary concerns were important markers of both contemporary inequality and future harmony in pre-revolutionary France. This article examines the utopian future of food via three alimentary features of Mercier’s novel: food justice, food security and commensality. By considering these tropes as reflections of perceived flaws in Parisian society, it demonstrates the importance of encouraging imaginary projections of ideal solutions to food crises through such literary experiments. The critiques and ideals related to food presented in L’An 2440 are contextualized through reference to the historical economic and social issues that inspired them. In conclusion, Mercier’s preoccupations in the eighteenth century and his predictions for the twenty-fifth century are considered with regard to their relevance to twenty-first-century food challenges, at a moment that is mid-way between these two points on the author’s alimentary history chronology.
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Matiu, Ovidiu. "The Functionality of Food in Cormac McCarthy's Desert Imaginary, or Abundance and Scarcity in Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (1985) and The Road (2006)." East-West Cultural Passage 21, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 43–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2021-0003.
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Abstract This article analyzes the concept of food in Cormac McCarthy's dystopian, (post-)apocalyptic fiction, aiming to prove that in the American writer's universe the act of eating is deprived of its social and spiritual dimension, being restricted to its basic functionality similar to that of a meal-replacement product. The analysis draws a parallel between the concept of manna in the Exodus and the types of foodstuffs and their functionality in the novels Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West and The Road, showing that food is one of the constituent ingredients of McCarthy's desert imaginary and is interpreted as a crucial weapon in the fight against death and dehumanization.
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Eriksson, Camilla, Klara Fischer, and Ebba Ulfbecker. "Technovisions for Food Security as Sweden Restores Its Civil Defence." Science, Technology and Society 25, no. 1 (January 15, 2020): 106–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971721819889924.
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After three decades of demobilising the Swedish defence sector following the end of the Cold War, Sweden recently revived civil defence planning, including new instructions to plan for food security in the event of war. This policy shift has raised questions as to how farming’s vulnerability to disruptions differs today from in the Cold War era, as well as how this vulnerability might best be mitigated. This article presents and discusses key vulnerabilities in Swedish farming as perceived by farmers and some technological solutions to these envisioned by rural entrepreneurs. The focus is on technologies that could increase farm-level self-sufficiency and decrease vulnerability to trade disruptions. Using a sociotechnical imaginaries framework, to which we contribute the concept of ‘technovisions’, we highlight how farmers’ perceptions of potential technological solutions are embedded in social, material and moral values. We conclude that the technovisions presented, based on the production of renewable fuels, can contribute to reducing dependency on imported fuel and fertilisers and thus decrease vulnerability, and that these technovisions are placed firmly within a productionist imaginary of how food security can be achieved.
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Mamonova, Natalia. "Patriotism and Food Sovereignty: Changes in the Social Imaginary of Small-Scale Farming in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine." Sociologia Ruralis 58, no. 1 (December 4, 2017): 190–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soru.12188.
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Dibb-Smith, Amanda, and Emily Brindal. "Table for two: The effects of familiarity, sex and gender on food choice in imaginary dining scenarios." Appetite 95 (December 2015): 492–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2015.07.032.
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Kelinsky-Jones, Lia, and Kim Niewolny. "Whose Journey to Self-Reliance? Participation in the Journey to Self-Reliance and the Land-Grant Imaginary." Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education 28, no. 4 (August 21, 2021): 7–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2021.28407.
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Land-grant university and civil society development actors have long partnered with local and global communities to eliminate food insecurity. Despite the common aim of addressing food insecurity as a wicked problem, their approaches and designs differ in scope and scale. Similarly, levels of local stakeholder participation in agricultural development historically vary reflecting the complexity in relinquishing hierarchal decision-making power. In this pilot study, we investigated how participation is framed within the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) policy, “The Journey to Self-Reliance”. Subsequently, we sought to understand the implications of this framing on land-grant universities’ agricultural development aims in addressing global food security. We drew upon Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis and Pretty’s typology of participation in sustainable agriculture to analyze the inaugural speech launching the policy framework by the former USAID administrator. We also held two focus groups with development actors at two land-grant universities. Findings indicate local participation of governments, citizens, and civil society to be important. However, governmental participation may be contingent on accountability to both USAID and the private sector indicating an increased commitment to neoliberal ideology. The focus group themes identify self- reliance and its journey as prescriptive and at times, neocolonial, raising questions about participatory possibilities. The final theme illustrates land-grant praxis from participants as they advance visions for centering local partner needs through more equitable decision-making and resource sharing. We conclude with considerations for future research to more deeply understand the implications of “The Journey to Self-Reliance” policy through a CDA lens Keywords: Agro-ecology, Extension, Theory and Practice, Qualitative Research, Community Development
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Peterson, Maya. "Steppes to Health: How the Climate-Kumys Cure Shaped a New Steppe Imaginary." Slavic Review 81, no. 1 (2022): 8–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/slr.2022.75.
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This paper examines the rise of the “climate-kumys cure” in late imperial Russia and how it shaped perceptions of the steppes as a “curative place.” By positing that kumys (fermented mare's milk), a traditional food produced by steppe nomads, interacted with unique qualities of the steppe climate—including aromatic air, abundant sunshine, cool forest groves, rich feathergrasses, and brilliant wildflowers—to cure tuberculosis patients of their symptoms, the climate-kumys cure produced an imaginary of the steppes that contrasted with traditional Russian views of the steppes as barren, monotonous, and even dangerous. Knowledge about the steppe climate produced by proponents of the climate-kumys cure harmonized with Soviet medical professionals’ ideas about forging workers’ bodies and restoring their minds. An understanding of the steppes as healthy, however, did not stop the spread of disease, nor did it lead to preservation. Even as the climate-kumys cure rose in popularity, the steppes that had given rise to kumys were vanishing.
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Goulet, Frédéric. "Family Farming and The Emergence of an Alternative Sociotechnical Imaginary in Argentina." Science, Technology and Society 25, no. 1 (January 15, 2020): 86–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971721819889920.
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In this article, we analyse the mechanisms by which family farming established itself in Argentina over the 2004–2016 period as a legitimate solution to the food security challenge. We show that this process has played a role in the emergence of an alternative sociotechnical imaginary built as a counter-model to the one associated with industrial agriculture. We highlight the importance of the processes of demarcation and detachment at the heart of this shift, in the political, techno-scientific and agricultural spheres. The actors involved in the promotion of family farming associate this alternative approach to the development of the agricultural sector with the implementation of an alternative practice and organisation of science and technology. These shifts correspond to a narrative and mode of political action that put the emphasis on the production of a national future liberated from the mistakes and injustices of the past, in which science and technology play a central role. By highlighting the tensions at the heart of this dynamic, between the establishment of new boundaries and the challenging of existing ones, the article contributes to the analysis of the formation of alternative sociotechnical imaginaries, and in particular the underlying mechanisms of co-production between science and politics.
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Joensuu, Juri. "Fiktiiviset reseptit ja mahdottomat ateriat kirjallisen komiikan lajina." AVAIN - Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti, no. 2 (July 3, 2017): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.30665/av.66199.
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Fictitious recipes, impossible meals: a subgenre of comical literature The article looks into ctitious and imaginative food recipes and comical potentiality of such food related text types as listings of ingredients, foodstuffs, dishes, or portions. The focus is on imaginary, fantastic, and impossible meals and recipes: portions that could not be implemented in the real world. The recipe as a form is covered from genre-theoretical, narratological, poetic and procedural perspectives. The special point of reference is experimental literature and its interests in literary forms, rules, constraints, and procedures − the terms that could be used to define also culinary recipes as codes or scripts for cooking, just as poetic procedures can be thought of as recipes for texts. The humorous implementations found in literary texts vary from satire, logical paradoxes and conceptual incongruences to the use of powerful culinary combinations. All these speak to the reader’s personal taste, food recollections and notions of culinary categories.
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TÉLLEZ-MEDINA, Dario Iker. "Fractal geometry: A consolidated tool for imagination." Vitae 20, no. 3 (December 17, 2013): 159–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.vitae.17991.
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Since the very first attempts performed by the human brain for acquiring information about the surrounding world, priority is usually given to the information received by visual channels, i.e. by the eyes. It is interesting the proportion of human cerebral cortex destined for processing the stimuli captured by the photo-sensors contained in the retina, ranging 55%. According to several authors (1-4), the human learning process involves the association of each stimulus received by the different transduction assemblies composing the five senses to an image or, even, to a specific intricate memory. This has derived in formulating research works about how the brain develops the processes of creation and imagination. Therefore, the complexity of the well-known capacity of children for drawing in the mind (or in a piece of paper) a picture of an imaginary creature, and defining how it smells, hears, tastes, and touches, is astonishing. Having fun making an imaginary creature does not necessarily imply an easy task for the human brain, especially if the thinker of such an imaginary creature goes deeper into deciding if the creature becomes an opponent or a friend. In turn, the learning process may result affected when the visual channels do not work properly. Some studies have shown that lack of visual experience delays the physiological development of cognitive, social and linguistic skills in blind children. Although this might signify a serious disadvantage for an adequate brain development, there exist reports indicating that cerebral processing of shapes, spatial perception and imagery occurs in the same way and in the same highly-specialised visual areas, despite the sensory channels through which the information is acquired, in both blind and non-blind individuals. Furthermore, it is possible to mention many examples of blind persons noticing some aspects that the non-blind ones do not recognise.
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Бюро-Пуан, Ева. "Ядохимикаты и пищевые страхи в Камбодже." Антропологии/Anthropologies, no. 1 (November 12, 2021): 6–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.33876/2782-3423/2021-1/6-30.
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Химические вещества, присутствующие в пищевых продуктах, вызывают все большее обществен-ное беспокойство в Камбодже. Мысль о том, что пища содержит остатки этих невидимых, но вредных для здоровья субстанций, утвердилась в умах. Различные пищевые страхи формируют новое коллективное воображаемое, и каждый старается выработать определенную стратегию, чтобы справиться с ними. На основании этнографического исследования среди горожан, сельско-хозяйственных производителей, продавцов риса и зелени, а также продавцов химикатов, прове-денного в период между июнем 2018 и мартом 2019 гг., мы проанализируем коллективное вооб-ражаемое о пищевых продуктах и формы приспособления, которые вырабатываются в ответ на пищевые страхи. Chemical substances in food is a source of growing concern in Cambodia. Despite the invisibility of these substances, the idea that food contains chemical residues harmful to health is gaining ground. A full range of food scares emerge. A new imaginary of food is spreading and everyone try to develop strategies to ar-range with the fear of being contaminated. Based on an ethnographic study conducted in Cambodia be-tween June 2018 and March 2019 with urban people, farmers, rice, fresh fruits, vegetables and input sellers, this article examines the collective imaginaries of food and the adaptations developed in response to the fear of being contaminated.
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Timmer, C. Peter. "Agriculture and Pro-Poor Growth: An Asian Perspective." Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 5, no. 1 (June 15, 2008): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.37801/ajad2008.5.1.1.
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Imagine a region of the world where all food and agricultural products are sourced from international markets, and domestic agricultural sectors have disappeared. This "world without agriculture" is not imaginary. For many of the world's poorest countries, especially in Africa, a future without agriculture is increasingly being urged as the efficient path to development. Mark Rosenzweig, the new Director of Harvard's Center for International Development, asks at the broadest level: "Should Africa do any agriculture at all?" (Harvard Magazine, 2004, p. 57). Adrian Wood, Chief Economist for the Department for International Development (DfID) of the United Kingdom, envisions a "hollowed out" Africa, with most of the population on the coasts where they could more effectively produce manufactured exports (Wood 2002). Many macro economists, convinced of the power of rapid economic growth to lift populations out of poverty, see resources devoted to slow-growing agriculture as wasted. In a world of ample food supplies in world markets (some of it free as food aid) and increasingly open borders for trade, what is the role of agriculture in pro-poor growth?
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O'Brien, Martin. "A ‘Lasting Transformation’ of Capitalist Surplus: From Food Stocks to Feedstocks." Sociological Review 60, no. 2_suppl (December 2012): 192–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.12045.
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In this article I link surplus food with the politics of capitalist production and consumption in order to shed some useful light on the strange case of food not being food once it has been discarded but not thrown away. I develop an analysis of waste policy as a dimension of capitalist surplus management (after Sweezy, 1962 ) by reconfiguring Claus Offe's (1984) essay on the state and social policy and construe waste policy as effecting a ‘lasting transformation’ of non-accumulating capital into accumulating capital. My intention is to provide a sketch of the labyrinthine semantic and political structures emerging around waste (in general) and waste food (in particular). I show that transforming waste food into capitalist surplus is a multi-layered and multi-stranded endeavour embedded in larger political, economic and cultural arrangements and cosmologies. I undertake this analysis of the transformation of waste into surplus by exploring, first, waste as an imaginary construct; second, the strange case of discarded food not being ‘discarded’ (and not being ‘food’, either); third, the convoluted cosmology of European waste policy; and, fourth, aspects of political sociology which help to reveal the status of waste as a source of capital accumulation. I conclude by proposing a sociological account of food waste that situates the critique of excess not in the ignorant, sordid voraciousness of individual citizens but in the structures and institutions of capitalist accumulation.
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Shohat, Ella. "Culinary Ghosting: A Journey Through a Sweet and Sour Iraq." Revista Crítica Cultural 12, no. 2 (December 19, 2017): 219. http://dx.doi.org/10.19177/rcc.v12e22017219-226.
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Ella Shohat tell us about the work of Michael Rakowitz and his three art and culinary projects that comment on the transnational flow of images and sounds, of smells and tactile impressions intermingled with the ashes of war and multiple displacements. Iraqi food and its relation with displacement, return, war, visibility are the subjects of the projects and of Shohat’s analysis. Through the prism of the culinary, Rakowitz’s Iraq cooking projects create an archive of recipes and cultural knowledge in motion. They are also tales of the ghosts of departed communities. The complex Iraqi experience conveyed in bittersweet stories seems to perfectly resonate with the culinary genre hamed-helu, composed of the dissonant harmony between sweet and sour properties. Remembering Iraq through culinary acts transforms the absentees into a palpable presence, through the collective process of dining and dialoguing. Ghosting food thus testifies simultaneously to the disappearance but also to imaginary returns.
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Villavicencio, Manuel, Miguel Novillo, and Ámbar Chica. "¡Salud por el lenguaje!: la jerga juvenil y sus relaciones con el alcohol." Logos: Revista de Lingüística, Filosofía y Literatura 32, no. 1 (June 2022): 20–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.15443/rl3202.
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This article is circumscribed within a larger project and seeks to analyze the field of alcohol in youth slang in the city of Cuenca, to reflect to what extent the different terms and expressions make up a socio-cultural imaginary in which drinking is concomitant with the daily practices of young people, such as sex, drugs, food, study, sports and other forms of leisure and fun. The methodology used begins from the lexical-semantic study of a corpus of approximately 5,000 forms, through the elaboration of a taxonomy (types of drinks, quantity, consumption, states and effects), and a lexicographic analysis, which suggest the presence of semantic changes, from rhetorical figures, mainly metaphor and metonymy, which causes the joy and delight on the part of its users.
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Ryan, Kathryn (Rin), and Antoaneta Tileva. "Taking the past out of the pastoral: TikTok’s queer ‘cottagecore’ culture and performative placemaking." Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 7, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 165–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/qsmpc_00077_1.
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TikTok’s ‘cottagecore’ subculture has been fertile ground for the growth of a new queer rural imaginary. Through performative elements such as food, dress, imagery and Sapphic sentiments, queer women on TikTok curate an idyllic and idealized vision of rural queer life and lay claim to it. Cottagecore as a performative practice allows queer people to revel in a fictional frontier lifestyle for their own enjoyment, without concern for its actualization. This article outlines the way in which queer TikTokers play/pretend the pioneering landscape, which previously has been dominated by hetero voices. By populating these virtual spaces and queer-coding forms of dress and performance, they claim their right to belong in frontier and pioneering narratives and figuratively, if not literally, stake claim to the rural terrain.
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Junqueira, Antonio Hélio. "Territórios alimentares e reinvenção das tradições na cozinha colonial da Serra Catarinense (SC): a experiência da associação de agroturismo acolhida na colônia/ Food territories and reinvention of traditions on Serra Catarinense (SC) colonial kitchen: the experience of the Associação de Agroturismo Acolhida na Colônia." Geografares, no. 25 (June 27, 2018): 263–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.7147/geo25.17633.
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O estudo investiga as dinâmicas e estratégias articuladas pelo projeto de estruturação do turismo em ambiente rural da agricultura familiar na região das Encostas da Serra Catarinense (SC), pela Associação de Agroturismo Acolhida na Colônia, na busca da reintrodução de práticas, saberes e fazeres alimentares regionais. Toma, como problema de pesquisa, o tensionamento e a proposta de distinção entre os conceitos predominantes na mídia e no senso comum a respeito de resgate ou recuperação da cultura culinária rural ancestral, em contraposição à ideia da invenção das tradições, aliada a projetos de agenciamento da memória popular em prol da construção imaginária do território alimentar em estudo. AbstractThe study investigates the dynamics and strategies articulated by the rural tourism structuring project in the region of the Serra Catarinense (SC), by the Associação de Agroturismo Acolhida na Colônia, in the search to reintroduce regional food prepartion practices and knowledge. The text is based on qualitative research focused on the collection and discursive analysis of reports produced by different media, selected and disseminated by the investigated association and results in the validation of the pertinence of the adoption of both the concept of invention of the traditions and the practices of agency of memory popular for the imaginary reconstruction of the food territory under study.Keywords: Regional food. Food territories. Traditions.
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Robidoux, Michael A., and Aida Stratas. "The Inuit’s Offer to Canada’s Black Governor General: Food, Power, and the Deconstruction of Lévi-Strauss’ “Culinary Triangle”." International Journal of Canadian Studies 60 (March 1, 2022): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ijcs.60.x.21.
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This article revisits when former Canadian Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, consumed raw seal heart at an Inuit community feast. This event provides important insight about cultural meanings around food and the power relationships imbued in culinary traditions. It also provides an opportunity to investigate how food has been theorized in academic research, and how this scholarship is potentially complicit in the derisive responses directed at Jean, most notably in the structural anthropological work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Raw and the Cooked. By deconstructing Lévi-Strauss’ logic of binary oppositions (raw/cooked, nature/culture, civilized/uncivilized) in the “Culinary Triangle” model and applying his binary assumptions to Jean’s behaviour and the ensuing media and public responses, it becomes apparent how Lévi-Strauss’ theoretical model reflects dichotomous thinking in contemporary Western societies that engenders marginalization and misrepresentation of Indigenous peoples and their cultural practices. These power structures are produced from a single epistemic centre—the Western centre which undermines the cultural values and social position of those outside of the Western imaginary. The purpose of this article is to revisit how Canadian and European news sources discursively constructed the event and investigate how Lévi-Strauss’ binary food analysis inadvertently contributes to the perpetuation of power imbalances between Indigenous and Western perspectives.
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Ocasio Vega, Mónica B. "Recipe for Rice and Beans." Gastronomica 22, no. 2 (2022): 15–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2022.22.2.15.
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Rice and beans is considered a staple dish of the Caribbean. This article traces the principles of sabor—a multisensorial image—in the dish of rice and beans in Puerto Rico. I argue that Ana Lydia Vega’s story “Historia de Arroz con Habichuelas” and the recipes for “Arroz Blanco” (White Rice) and “Habichuelas Rosadas Secas” (Dried Pink Beans) in Carmen Aboy Valldejuli’s vernacular cookbook Cocina Criolla set forward a multisensorial image I call sabor and invite us to participate in a sensorial life in the Caribbean. In considering the privileged place of the dish in the Puerto Rican culinary imaginary, I propose an analysis of the writing of and about food made possible through savoring—as an exercise that brings us closer to the particularity of the culinary.
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Fettling, Neil. "Water+shed: A 20-year survey of artwork on the Murray Darling Basin, Australia." Thesis Eleven 150, no. 1 (January 9, 2019): 131–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513618823778.
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The Murray Darling Basin is the primary watershed of the Australian continent. It is central to the national imaginary as both major food bowl and natural resource. Two hundred years of unsustainable pastoral and farming practices are threatening its ecological future and with it the nation-state’s industrial agricultural economic base. I am a visual artist who works in multiple media. For most of my career I have been living and working in this region. A major component of my intellectual and artistic expression has been expended in a critical and aesthetic response to this watershed. The artworks documented in this essay were part of a 20-year (1989–2009) survey exhibition of my mediations and responses to the crisis of water allocation in the Murray Darling Basin.
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Moyer, Alexia. "“All Kinds of Dirty”: Supermarkets, Markets, and Shifting Cultures of Clean." Cuizine 2, no. 1 (March 30, 2010): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/039513ar.
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Abstract The makers of CLR (the Calcium, Lime, Rust, cleaning product) assure us that there are “all kinds of dirty, one kind of clean.” One can feel confident that soap scum buildup and toilet bowl stains in the bathroom as well as the grease splatters and dried-on tomato sauce in the kitchen can be wiped away with the help of one yellow bottle. The pithy slogan asks us to be preoccupied by dirty in all its forms, without taking into account the many discourses of clean. This article concerns itself with the cult of “cleanness” and the ways in which it has taken hold of the imaginary when it comes to our bodies, the things we put into them, and the spaces we make use of and/or inhabit. I make particular reference here to the spaces in which we buy food, exploring various implications of the staging process enacted in the processing and display of foodstuffs. I set out to examine the ways in which clean is implemented and interpreted by and within two major sites of food shopping: the supermarket and the market.
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Pillai, Shanthini. "Gastronomic Aesthetics of a French Catholic Missionary during the Japanese Occupation of Malaya." Southeast Asian Review of English 59, no. 2 (January 2, 2023): 39–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no2.5.
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Much has been written about British accounts of colonial Malaya from the perspective of travellers, explorers, novelists, historians and many more. Much also exists on the Malaysian responses to life under the Japanese Occupation. Yet there is a lacuna on scholarship on other European communities that existed alongside the British in Malaya. This paper traces the French oeuvre of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya, especially within the context of food and religiosity. Focusing on a diary written by a French Catholic missionary in Malaya during the Japanese Occupation, it interrogates the aspect of Catholic gastronomic aesthetics through the concepts of the imaginary of incorporation as well as biblical metaphors of commensality. In so doing, the paper presents a different and novel angle to existing conversations on European networks of knowledge production on colonial Malaya, especially within the context of food and colonialism, revealing that not all frameworks of the operations of European colonialism are the same. It also significantly intervenes into and alters the vestiges of a colonial palate that has heretofore remained predominantly British through the foregrounding of a French Catholic cultural perspective that perceptibly adds its own distinct flavour.
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Narciso Gomes Jr, Newton. "Aspectos da insegurança alimentar no Brasil de hoje: notas para discussão." Argumentum 6, no. 2 (December 15, 2014): 247–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18315/argumentum.v6i2.8145.
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Resumo: A pandemia do excesso de peso já é considerada um dos males do século XXI em razão dos impactos sobre a saúde das pessoas. Ademais, os gastos anuais com todas as doenças relacionadas com o sobrepeso e obesidade, segundo Bahia et al. (2012), chegam a US$ 1,4 bilhões, distribuídos em hospitalizações (64,8%) e procedimentos ambulatoriais (36,2%). Os autores destacam que pelo menos 10% desses custos estão diretamente relacionados com a incidência de sobrepeso e obesidade. O cenário alimentar da sociedade brasileira, no qual metade da população convive com o sobrepeso e a obesidade, é o espaço de reflexão deste ensaio, que discute a insegurança alimentar e seus determinantes. O objetivo perseguido nesta reflexão é demonstrar que a transição alimentar em curso precisa ser revertida e que, para tanto, há que se resgatar para o imaginário social a tradição das refeições e das formas de acesso aos alimentos o que implica na defesa de um conjunto de políticas públicas para a produção de alimentos, comercialização e educação alimentar. Palavras-chave: Insegurança Alimentar, Excesso de Peso, Transição Alimentar, Políticas Públicas. Abstract: The pandemic of overweight is now considered one of the evils of the twenty-first century because of impacts on people's health. Moreover, annual spending on all diseases related to overweight and obesity according Bahia et al. (2012) come to $ 1.4 billion, distributed in hospitalizations, 64.8 % and 36.2 % in outpatient procedures. The author point out that at least 10 % of these costs are directly related to the incidence of overweight and obesity. The food scenario of Brazilian society where half the population lives with overweight and obesity is the space of reflection of this essay that discusses food insecurity and its determinants. The objective pursued in this reflection is to demonstrate that food ongoing transition must be reversed and that there is much for which to redeem the social imaginary tradition meals and forms of access to foods which implies the defense of a set of public policies for food production, marketing and nutrition education. Key words: Food insecurity, Overweight and obesity, Dietary transition, Public policies.
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Costa, Luís Cadillon, A. Correia, A. Viegas, João Bessa Sousa, and François Henry. "Dielectric Characterisation of Plastics for Microwave Oven Applications." Materials Science Forum 480-481 (March 2005): 161–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.480-481.161.
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The materials used in microwave oven cavities must have specific dielectric properties in order to maintain the efficiency of the food heating. Plastics, by their mechanical and chemical properties and low cost, are one of those potential materials. In this study, we present the results of the measurements of complex dielectric constant, ´´ ´ * e e e í − = , in the microwave frequency region, on different plastics: polyoxymethylene (POM), polypropylene (PP) and polybutylene terephtalate (PBT), using the cavity resonant method. We measure the shift in the resonant frequency of the cavity, Df, caused by the insertion of the sample, which can be related to the real part of the complex permitivitty, e´, while the change in the inverse of the quality factor of the cavity, D(1/Q), gives the imaginary part, e´´. The relations are simple when we consider only the first order perturbation in the electric field caused by the sample.
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Duruz, Jean. "Love in a Hot Climate: Foodscapes of Trade, Travel, War, and Intimacy." Gastronomica 16, no. 1 (2016): 16–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2016.16.1.16.
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This article is about mapping—about charting dominant ways of seeing and understanding place, and the interruption of those ways. The argument traces a twentieth-/twenty-first-century culinary journey from Sri Lanka, through the Strait of Malacca, to the Pacific Ocean. Critical destinations on this route include the port cities of Colombo, Malacca, and Singapore. The journey, however, is not predominantly one shaped by oceans, nations, or the urban fabric of cities. Instead, we enter the “private” spaces of domestic kitchens to record glimpses of “mixed” food practices, characteristic of local Eurasian and Peranakan (Straits Chinese) communities. Drawing on traditional family dishes recorded in “cultural retrieval” cookbooks, the argument speculates that food discourses and meanings embedded in kitchens' everyday practices evade incorporation into the national culinary imaginary simply as representative of a “Sri Lankan,” “Malaysian,” or “Singaporean” heritage. Instead, the marriage of ingredients and distinctive flavors recorded in Peranakan and Eurasian recipes begs some unraveling of their complex histories. Within the intimacy of “mixed” marriages and the legitimacy of “mixed” cuisines, the article teases out how “the food of love” (Hutton 2000, 2007) becomes a powerful signifier of cuisine, tradition, memory, identity, and place—through and beyond the parameters of the “national.” Here, Yi-Fu Tuan's “fields of care” (1979) provide rich possibilities for meditation on alternative ways to chart territories of difference and intimate connection, and to acknowledge, within these territories, the ghostly labor of mothers, aunts, and servants.
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Xavier, Brunno Lessa Saldanha, Juliana Faco Amaral Hermógenes, Yonara Cristiane Ribeiro, Ana Carla Silveira de Sá, Fernanda Maria Vieira Pereira Ávila, and Paula Vanessa Peclat Flores. "Senses and Meanings of Conservative Treatment in People with Chronic Kidney Disease." Aquichan 20, no. 3 (September 7, 2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5294/aqui.2020.20.3.5.
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Objective: To unveil the senses and meanings of conservative treatment in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Materials and Methods: A descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach. It was developed in 2017, with a sample of individuals with CKD undergoing conservative treatment. A semi-structured interview was used and the data were analyzed using simple descriptive statistics and content analysis. Results: 25 individuals participated in the study, of which 56 % were female; 52 % belonged to the 60-79-year-old age group; 48 % were white-skinned; 48 % did not complete elementary school; and only 12 % worked. Content analysis revealed two categories: food restriction: anguishes and impacts that affect the daily lives of patients with CKD and the social imaginary and fear related to renal replacement therapy. Conclusions: The results revealed that diet and fear about dialysis therapy produce uncertainty, anxiety, and insecurity, in addition to a wide and impacting change in people’s lives.
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Hlubish, Lesya. "Rethinking approaches to building a harmonious food market and modelling its development." INNOVATIVE ECONOMY, no. 1-2 (2020): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.37332/2309-1533.2020.1-2.5.
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Purpose. The aim of the article is to identify the possibility of exploring the process of tripartite market interaction of the multiple food provision sphere stakeholders as a holistic unity through the formalization of dynamic change, describing their properties with taking into account the time factor in mind. Methodology of research. The advantages of the triadic logic of conducting scientific research aimed at harmonizing the interaction of multiply stakeholders in the food provision sphere above the dyad are established using of the comparison method. The need to build a harmonious food market requires the synthesis of traditional techniques with new knowledge. The use of synthesis, the essence of which is the imaginary unification of individual parts of the object of scientific research into a single whole, due also to the fact that the scope of food security is a coherent unity. Given the need to visualize the objects of scientific search, modelling has a special role in the process of scientific knowledge of the nature of economic phenomena and processes, as well as finding out the causes of appearance of the problematic moments, it is the modelling itself. Findings. The complexity and multidimensionality of tripartite interaction of the food provision requires a rethinking of traditional approaches to building semi-structured, open systems. As a result of comparative analysis, the need to move from dialectic to conducting a study of harmonization of market interaction in the field of food provision sphere on the basis of trialectics is proved. The continuation of the trialectic logic is the use of synthesis, which made it possible to realize that the interaction of the absolute opposite forms a triune space, which should be regarded as a harmoniously developing integrity. The use of simulation modelling made it possible to visualize the synthetic interaction of the stakeholders of the triad of subject and functional components of the food provision sphere. Originality is to combine vector algebra with spatial geometry, which made it possible to visualize dynamic market interaction in the food provision sphere as in a systematic triad with taking into account the time factor in mind. Practical value. The triple helix as an institutional matrix for the harmonization of the stakeholders' market interaction of the triad of subject and functional components of the domestic food provision sphere in the whole of production, consumer and regulatory aspects should ensure its synergistic stability in the context of globalization of food markets. Key words: food provision sphere; marketing strategy; stakeholder; motion vector; systematic Triad; trilateral market interaction; balancing economic interests; harmonious food market; triune space; moral economy; triple helix model; synergy; disproportions; dyadic paradigm; trialectics.
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Teubner, Melina. "Eat the street." Revista Ingesta 1, no. 2 (November 30, 2019): 167–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2596-3147.v1i2p167-168.
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Female street vendors were a common sight in cities worldwide in the first half of the 19th century. Fields of history like women’s history have dealt with the role of these street vendors in European cities. In recent decades, female street vendors have also been studied by a number of Brazilian scholars, who have shed light on urban slavery, domestic slavery and other forms of unfree labor. These studies commonly focus on community building among urban slaves and the formation of a West African diaspora. All around the globe female street vendors were (and still are) not merely passive victims of marginalization, but capable actors, who created a gendered niche of economic opportunity, through the capitalization of their cooking and vending skills. The popularity of female hawkers was closely connected to their being women.
Until now, few studies explore the food stalls in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the first half of the 19th century as special places of consumption within a global perspective. Street food gave rise to a working-class consumer culture. This study aims to focus on the social, material and imaginary aspects of these vending places. What role did they play within the consumer culture of Rio de Janeiro? What food did they provide? What was the communication between vendors and customers like? These questions are especially interesting to ask against the background of Rio de Janeiro’s intensive sociocultural transformation in the years between 1830 and 1860, after the official prohibition of the transatlantic slave trade.
Places of food consumption such as the Paris-style restaurant (representative of luxury dining) and taverns (representative of more commonplace, popular restaurants) saw a great increase in the first half of the 19th century.
Analyzing food stands as places of food consumption offers the possibility to break up the narrative of the male centered public sphere and show that women especially played a crucial role in providing 19th century cities with food. Daily newspapers, contemporary descriptions by foreign visitors and social novels demonstrate in an excellent manner the contemporary discourse of eating out, the dishes that were served, who consumed these dishes and female vendors in a global perspective.
The paper argues that eating out was not only a necessity for some, but also a form of entertainment comparable to professional theater plays. Food stands were places were gender roles, prejudices against foreign food and sexual honor were negotiated. Since cooking is one of the most time-consuming types of labor in history the paper combines food history with labor history and demonstrates public eating as a special form of entertainment.
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Wang, Jamie. "The Sprouting Farms: You Are What You Grow." Humanities 10, no. 1 (February 3, 2021): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h10010027.
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In 2017, the Singaporean government unveiled the Farm Transformation Map, a highly technology-driven initiative that intends to change its current, near-total dependence on imported food. The plan focuses on the prospect of high-productivity farming—in particular, integrated vertical, indoor, and intensive urban farming—as a possible solution to geopolitical uncertainty, intense urbanisation, and environmental degradation. What to farm (or not) and how to farm has long mediated social, cultural, political, and environmental relations. Following the stories of a few small- to medium-scale urban farms, including rooftop gardens, community farms, and organic farms, in this future-oriented city polis, this article explores the rise of urban farming through the politics of localism and the notion of care. How has localism, in some contexts, been reduced to a narrow sense of geographic location? What is being cared for in and through farming in urban locales? How might this type of farming transform and shape bio-cultural, social-technological relations within humans, and between humans and non-humans? More importantly, this article explores how urban agriculture might forge a kind of thick localism rooted in situated care as it carries out social missions, experimenting with and subverting the dominant imaginary of industrial farming.