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SUMMARY:Food Lives Workshop!
DESCRIPTION:In-person workshop exploring food histories in Tower Hamlets \nJoin us for a participatory\, in-person workshop at Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives exploring the ways in which food plays a part in the lives of Tower Hamlets residents today. \nHosted by researchers from the University of Sussex and the Women’s Environmental Network (WEN)\, we’ll use food diaries\, stories and photographs to discuss how we ‘feed the hamlets’ today\, and to hear your own reflections\, aspirations and food memories. \nWorkshop will include discussion sessions on food justice\, food memories\, contemporary food domestic productions and a free lunch! \nYou can also learn more about our Food Lives project\, part of the URKI funded Food Systems Equality (FoodSEqual) project and have the opportunity to sign up as a participant. \nThe workshop will take place at the Archives and you’ll be able to participate in a range of discussions and activities throughout the day: \n  \n11am – 12.45pm: Exploring everyday food preparation and consumption in Tower Hamlets   \nWhat do local people think about what they eat and cook? What are their challenges and hopes around food? Hear about the latest studies with Dr Elaine Swan (University of Sussex) \n1pm -2pm: Free lunch \nA chance to look at our food photography exhibition and read some residents’ food diaries. \n2pm – 3pm: Food Justice \nA participatory workshop focussed on food systems\, environmental problems\, and aspirations. Facilitated by Shazna Hussain\, Sajna Miah \, Community Researcher from WEN (Women’s Environmental Movement) and Dr Elaine Swan \n3pm – 4pm: Food Lives project \nExploring your food memories and ideas. Facilitated by Sajna Miah\, Shazna Hussain and Dr Elaine Swan \nClick Here to Register \nThis event and the Food Lives project is part of a larger\, UKRI-funded\, research programme called Food Systems Equality (FoodSEqual)\, which aims to improve the UK food system and is led by the University of Reading.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/food-systems-equality/event/food-lives-workshop/
LOCATION:Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives\, 277 Bancroft Road\, London\, E1 4DQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Upcoming project events
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SUMMARY:Seeing the translocal: Visual food methods and gendered cultural reproduction foodwork
DESCRIPTION:A Food Researchers in Edinburgh (FRiED) Seminar. \nOur speaker will be Dr Elaine Swan\, Reader in Feminist Food Studies at the University of Sussex. One of Elaine’s main research interests is critical race and feminist food studies\, and in this event she will be talking about work that is part of the ongoing UKRI funded Food Systems Equality (FoodSEqual) project. More about her work can be found here. \nAbstract \nIn this talk\, I draw on our qualitative study on the gendered\, class and racialised foodwork of women in Tower Hamlets\, London. This study forms part of the UKRI-funded FoodSEqual project and involves collaborations between Katerina Psarikidou from Sussex University and Shazna Hussain\, and Sajna Miah community researchers from the Women’s Environmental network (WEN).  Our study comprises a range of methods\, many of which include photography or film. Hence\, we carried out a series of photography workshops; an exhibition; shop-alongs; cook-alongs; food photo diaries and interviews with local residents. Analysing the mediated visual representations of foodwork\, we examine the diverse meanings of ‘local food’ within translocal communities\, particularly focusing on ideas of gendered racialisation and the whiteness of food localism. Academics and activists food call for ‘alternatives’ to the industrial food system\, paying attention to the ‘local’ as the ‘alternative’ to address the ‘socio-environmental’ deficits of globalised food systems. In many cases\, the ‘local’ as some scholars critique\, takes a narrow\, situated\, place-based approach\, described as ‘defensive’ or ‘nativist’ localism (du Puis and Goodman\, 2005). \nExtending this critique\, Jilimiz Valiente-Neigbours (2012) argues that these limited understandings of food localism\, and scholarly discussions of these\, neglect race. As a result\, food localism can exclude ‘translocal subjectivities’ and ‘translocal communities’ such as the American Filipinos she studies. To expand understandings of ‘local-ness’\, and build an inclusive food politics\, in her view\, requires an embodied\, sensory and mobile understanding of ‘local-ness’ and transnationalism. In our paper\, we build on Valiente-Neighbours’ argument but extend it by foregrounding gender and race\, and mobilising growing feminist research on the politics of localism and the visual representation of cultural reproduction through food (for instance\, Deutsch\, 2011; Mares\, 2017). \nBased on our visual analysis\, we examine the diverse meanings of ‘local food’ within translocal communities\, particularly focusing on ideas of gendered racialisation and the whiteness of food localism.  We explore how dominant notions of localism neglect and potentially stigmatise gendered food practices of racially minoritised groups. In so doing\, first\, we challenge dominant ideas of ‘the local’ through an embodied\, mobile\, gendered and racialised understanding of ‘local-ness’ taking into account complex geographies of mobilities of people and food. Secondly\, we raise questions about whether ‘access to local food’ (narrowly perceived) should be at the centre of addressing food inequalities in a racialised translocal context. \nTo join follow the link below and please note that the session will begin at 12.30pm with a Q&A about research methods hosted by the FRIED student network and Elaine’s talk will begin at 1pm. \nClick here to join the meeting. \nMeeting ID: 334 618 591 319\nPasscode: g785zT \nJoin on the web.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/food-systems-equality/event/seeing-the-translocal-visual-food-methods-and-gendered-cultural-reproduction-foodwork/
LOCATION:Virtual event\, United Kingdom (UK)
CATEGORIES:Upcoming relevant food events
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SUMMARY:Mapping the Food Supply Chain for Disadvantaged Communities in the UK
DESCRIPTION:Despite many efforts by the government and citizens of the United Kingdom to address food insecurity and poverty\, available data on diet-related health\, food quality\, affordability and accessibility indicate the situation to be worsening. The effects of recent events such as the country’s final exit from the European Union\, the COVID19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict have further accentuated this. \nEmmanuel will discuss the role logistics and supply chain management could play in addressing this challenge by presenting a map of the food supply chain that serves disadvantaged consumers to identify the infrastructure\, processes\, key challenges and supply chain solutions. \nSpeaker Bio \nDr Emmanuel Sawyerr has expertise in supply chain resilience\, procurement\, supply chain excellence in developing countries\, sustainable supply chain management and food supply chains. He obtained his PhD at the Westminster Business School\, University of Westminster\, London. He has lectured at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels on subjects such as Sustainable Global Growth\, Sustainable Business\, Operations and Digital Business\, Project Management among others. Presently\, Emmanuel works as a Research Fellow in the Centre for Logistics\, Procurement and Supply Chain Management at Cranfield University’s School of Management where he is providing supply chain expertise on the BBSRC-funded Food Systems Equality project.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/food-systems-equality/event/mapping-the-food-supply-chain-for-disadvantaged-communities-in-the-uk/
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SUMMARY:Food Plymouth Autumn Get-Together
DESCRIPTION:A hybrid face-to-face + virtual get-together for the Food Plymouth network and anyone interested and working on food issues across the city! \n\n\n\n\nIt has been far too long since we’ve been able to get together in person\, so don’t miss this chance! Hosted at the Community Climate Centre\, this hybrid event is open to everyone within the Food Plymouth partnership and network and to anyone involved or interested in the future of healthy\, affordable and sustainable food in Plymouth. If you can’t join in person\, you can still take part online via Zoom. \nSo what’s on the agenda? \n\nReconnecting as a network and sharing a cuppa for those who can make it in person\nSharing food news\, opportunities and challenges from across the network – what’s going on with you?\nLearning about what’s been happening and what’s coming up with Sustainable Food Places campaign activities\nExploring ideas and developing plans for an exciting opportunity to have a physical presence in the city centre over the next two months!\n\nWe very much look forward to seeing you there – and please do share this opportunity with others you know too! Email Sophie at sfp@foodplymouth.org with any questions or suggestions ahead of time.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/food-systems-equality/event/food-plymouth-autumn-get-together/
LOCATION:The Climate Hub\, 67 New George Street\, Plymouth\, PL1 1RJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Upcoming relevant food events
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SUMMARY:Tower Hamlets: Exhibition Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:On 1st June\, we’ll be holding an event on the St George’s estate to showcase some of the photos by Tower Hamlets residents created during the food photography course. The launch event will also include: \n– Delicious free food cooked by local chefs \n– Lots of activities and fun for little ones and teens – with prizes! \n– Activities for adults too \n– Plenty of chances to help us learn about food by getting involved with our research \n– Information about local food histories \n– The chance to learn about lovely local walks \nCome back to this page soon for more detailed information about the event\, including details of how to get involved with the research. \nContact E.Swan@sussex.ac.uk to find out more. \nDr Elaine Swan is a Senior Researcher at University of Sussex. She tweets at @DrElaineSwan1 and is a contributor to Servings: Critical Race Feminist Studies of Food Work and Food Pedagogies. \nYou can find out more about the FoodSEqual programme on Twitter at @foodsequal  \nFind out more about Tower Hamlets Food Partnership
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/food-systems-equality/event/tower-hamlets-exhibition-launch-event/
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SUMMARY:RGS-IBG Conference: Good work for good food
DESCRIPTION:Session conveners: Hannah Pitt Sustainable Places Research Institute\, Cardiff University; Ana Moragues Faus\, University of Barcelona; Susanna Klassen\, University of British Columbia; Poppy Nicol Sustainable Places Research Institute\, Cardiff University. \nSponsored by the Geographies of Justice Research Group.  \nThe 2020 pandemic brought public attention to the vital work of food producers and others who keep supplies available and moving. Recognition of these roles as ‘key workers’ came in stark contrast to how hidden food work typically remains. Even more ethically motivated consumers have neglected work conditions supplying their food (Gray 2013). Popular narratives dismiss food production jobs as unskilled (Klocker et al 2020)\, and they typically earn low social and financial value. Terms for some workers represent modern slavery (Howard and Forin 2019); during the Covid crisis some have been pressured to work in unsafe conditions. Even producers meeting ecologically sustainable standards struggle to fairly reward labourers (Wieler et al 2016). Many minority world countries struggle to balance reliance on migrant food workers with a desire to limit immigration (Rye and Scott 2018). Labour-related inequities disproportionately impact people of colour; racism and colonialist legacies limit access to becoming a food producer (Levkoe & Offeh-Gyimah 2020). Technological solutions to labour shortages may well exacerbate injustices within food systems (Rotz et al 2019). More promising might be workers’ collective action\, particularly when connected to consumer campaigns (Minkoff Zern 2014). These tensions suggest unresolved questions regarding how to achieve just\, sustainable food systems in which jobs producing\, processing and distributing food are dignified and fairly rewarded. This session will explore good work for good food: How have bad food jobs become so prevalent? Who will do food work in future? How will they gain necessary skills and knowledge? And how can all food workers be guaranteed fair conditions and rewards?   \nWe welcome contributions considering all dimensions of Good Food Work: labour migration; education and training; standards and certification; dismantling racism and colonialist legacies; economics of fair pay; social recognition of food work; action for change; doing research with food workers and activists. We intend to run two sessions: a typical papers session followed by a round table to enable discussion between presenters and others.  
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/food-systems-equality/event/rgs-ibg-conference-good-work-for-good-food/
LOCATION:Virtual event\, United Kingdom (UK)
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180529T080000
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SUMMARY:BSA Food Study Group Virtual Conference 2021: Food\, Food Systems and Times of Insecurity
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Swan\, Izabela Delabre\, Katerina Psarikidou\, Ruth Segal\, Divya Sharma  \nTitle The third shift: the racialised\, gendered\, and classed labours of community Covid foodwork. \nIn this article\, we discuss how the racialised\, gendered and class labours of ’community Covid-19 foodwork’ have been celebrated and invisibilised. Various commentators lauded the community groups which provided food emergency aid during and between the lockdowns in the UK. At the same time\, they have marginalised the labours undertaken by minoritised and precaritised women who enable food mutual aid. ‘Foodwork’ builds on Marjorie Devault’s (1991) ground-breaking conceptualisation of feeding work\, referring to the multifaceted\, time-intensive\, relentless nature of women’s domestic food labour and entailing embodied\, emotional\, cognitive and physical work. We examine Covid related food aid through the concept of community foodwork to highlight the labours involved in food provisioning. For instance\, groups undertook soup runs\, provided hot meal services\, ran community kitchens\, led online cooking classes and distributed meals and groceries. Labour included shopping\, cooking\, packing\, delivering food and groceries\, stock taking\, fundraising\, networking\, knowledge sharing\, driving\, emotional labour and carework. Community foodwork builds solidarity and supports socially just responses to the pandemic\, bringing positive and negative effects for women involved and representing for many\, their ‘third shift’ of labour (Moser\, 1993; Gerstel\, 2000; Som Castellano\, 2016\, Springer\, 2020). The feminist concept of ‘third shift’ refers to the extra physical and emotional labour that women do in unpaid social and volunteering roles\, alongside their first shift in their paid employment and their second shift performing unpaid domestic labour. We explore how community Covid foodwork deepens gendered\, racialised and classed inequalities through the uneven distribution and relations of depletion i.e. the exhaustion of material and somatic capacities and resources (Rai et al.\, 2013; Perrier and Swan\, work in progress). Many volunteers were key workers on precarious contracts with health conditions\, exposed to risks\, and beneficiaries of food aid themselves. As Sara Ahmed writes\, having the energy and relations which re-store relate to racial and classed privilege (Ahmed\, 2013).
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/food-systems-equality/event/seminar/
LOCATION:Virtual event\, United Kingdom (UK)
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