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SUMMARY:Feeding the Hamlets: Exploring the History of Food Production in the Borough
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition uses the unique collections of Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives as a lens through which to explore the borough’s history of producing food. \nFor centuries\, the East End’s landscape and social and economic history have been influenced by the growing\, trading or manufacturing of food. Before 1800 farmland and market gardens characterised the area\, but rapid industrialisation saw this pastoral tradition give way to the factories and warehouses producing food for mass consumption nationwide and globally. Close proximity to the docks ensured that food businesses based in the East End had ready access to a fresh supply of raw ingredients\, within many supplies imported from countries colonised by Britain. \nPhotographs\, deeds\, plans\, minutes\, illustrations and maps are among the many unique items selected by staff.  These sources illustrate fascinating and lesser-known tales from the history of food production in the East End – from flour milling and sugar refining to cow-keeping and vegetable growing. \nThe exhibition looks at the methods and sites where food production took place\, as well as the people who were involved. A programme of free events is taking place to explore the exhibition’s themes in more detail. \nFeeding the Hamlets will run until early 2023. If you would like to bring a group or class for a tour or workshop inspired by the display\, please get in touch at localhistory@towerhamlets.gov.uk \nFor Opening times and dates\, click here
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/food-systems-equality/event/feeding-the-hamlets-exploring-the-history-of-food-production-in-the-borough/
LOCATION:Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives\, 277 Bancroft Road\, London\, E1 4DQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Upcoming relevant food events
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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:The Racialised\, Classed and Gendered Politics of Food Pedagogies
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event. \n6pm – Dr. Elaine Swan \nPaper title: What makes a food pedagogy pedagogical? Mediation\, Nutritionism\, Whiteness and Visuality \nIn this paper\, I take up the argument that what makes pedagogical processes pedagogical has been ‘blackboxed’ (Watkins at al.\, 2019) by discussing research I am undertaking in collaboration with community researchers from the Women’s Environment Movement. Funded by the UKRI\, this research forms part of the Transforming Food Systems project. Since the early use of the term of food pedagogy by Jennifer Sumner\, researchers deploy the analytic lens of food pedagogies to analyse how cultural and social processes and relations inside and outside of institutionalised education attempt to shape the feelings\, thoughts\, practices\, embodiments\, subjectivities and imaginings of children and adults in relation to food. Studies focus on how learning about\, or through food works across a range of power relations\, scales\, media and domains (see for instance\, Flowers and Swan\, 2015; Leahy and Pike\, 2015; Rich and Evans\, 2016; Lalli\, 2021; Jones\, 2019). A particular focus is how forms of food subjectivity and food conduct are ‘capacitated\, regulated and shaped’ (Watkins\, Noble and Driscoll\, 2015); with a few researchers examining how these produced gendered\, racialised\, heteronormative and classed inequalities across public\, private and domestic spheres (Luke\, 1996; Jones\, 2019; Flowers and Swan\, 2015). \nBut theorising on food pedagogy does not always make clear what makes a space\, practice or process ‘pedagogical’ (see Sandlin\, O’Malley and Burdick 2011 and Watkins et al.\, 2019 for discussion on this related to public and cultural pedagogies). Thus\, as Gurpinder Lalli and I write in our call for papers (2021)\, we need to ask what are the specificities of what makes food\, and food education ‘pedagogical’ and with what racialised\, classed\, and gendered effects (Flowers and Swan\, 2015)? How do the various sites\, spaces\, processes and products cast as food pedagogy ‘actually operate as pedagogy’ (Sandlin et al.\, 2011: 359)? What are the pedagogical processes: ‘the mechanisms and interactions that enable an individual’s capacity to learn’ through food practices\, media\, and technologies (Burdick & Sandlin 2013: 143)? As Megan Watkins et al. (2019) question: what are the particular social and cultural effects which are seen to constitute classed\, gendered and racialised subjects? How are forms of conduct are acquired through particular relations and practices across a range of settings? \nRather than assuming food pedagogies are ‘forces’ which ‘shape’ our identities\, what we think and feel\, and how we act\, we need to research how processes ‘operate’ on us: examining what of us is ‘shaped’\, and what ideal endpoint we are ‘shaped’ into. Using pedagogy as an analytical lens means examining the pedagogical dimensions of processes found in social theory such socialisation\, reproduction\, interpellation\, embodiment and mediation (Watkins et al.\, 2015). Thus\, more focus should be given to theorising what the ‘catalytic stuff’ of food pedagogies is and how it ‘works upon us’ (Swan 2007\, 2008). Hence in this paper\, taking up Noyan Jones’ (2019) point that food pedagogies based on hegemonic nutrition and healthism perpetuate racialised ideologies about food and health. More specifically\, using visual images\, I explore how we might understand mediation as a pedagogical process which reproduces whiteness\, gender and class. \n7pm – Dr. Tammara Soma \nPaper title: Gifting\, ridding and the “everyday mundane”: the role of class\, gender\, and privilege in the pedagogy of household food waste management\, prevention and reduction in Indonesia \nOverview: Through the lenses of food justice\, this talk will demonstrate the importance of considering household food waste practices and pedagogy within the framework of unequal power dynamics (class\, gender\, and privilege) in a household unit in Indonesia– especially between employers and their domestic helpers\, as well as between upper-class individuals and lower-class members. Informed by the “food waste regime” conceptual framework\, this talk will examine the complex food provisioning practices of Indonesian households. This study draws upon 21 in-depth interviews with households of varying incomes\, multiple site visits\, participant observation\, and going along on grocery trips to better understand the power dynamics and practices that result in\, or prevent the generation of household food waste. In addition\, 12 key informant interviews with government officials\, traditional food vendors\, supermarket managers\, and a waste collector was also conducted. In an Indonesian context\, understanding the interclass and gendered dynamics of the household (namely\, who gets to define what is “food” and what is “waste”)\, and understanding how diverse types of pedagogy play a role in food waste prevention/reduction can help promote solutions that are socially and environmentally just. \nKeynote speaker biographies: \nDr. Elaine Swan is a Reader in Feminist Food Studies based at Sussex University Business School. She is currently co-PI on the UKRI Transforming Food Systems project and researches food lives in Tower Hamlets\, London in collaboration with community researchers from the Women’s Environmental Network. She has been writing about race\, gender and food pedagogy in the UK and Australia for over ten years and is currently co-editing a special issue on foodwork for the journal Gender\, Work and Organization. \nDr. Tammara Soma MCIP RPP is an Assistant Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management (Planning program) at Simon Fraser University and Research Director of the Food Systems Lab. Originally hailing from Indonesia\, she conducts research on issues pertaining to food loss and waste (FLW)\, food system planning\, food security\, food literacy\, and the circular food economy. Dr. Soma is a Co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Food Waste\, and co-founder of the International Food Loss and Food Waste Studies group\, a global network of food loss and waste researchers and practitioners. Dr. Soma was selected as a committee member of the US National Academies of Sciences and co-authored the consensus study A National Strategy to Reduce Consumer Food Waste. She leads numerous tri-council funded research projects and is routinely featured in international and local media (BBC\, CBC\, TVO\, CTV\, Huffington Post\, National Observer\, Chatelaine and more). In 2021\, the Food Systems Lab was recognized as one out of the four women-run projects that are redefining agriculture by the Canadian Organic Grower. She was also named in Chatelaine magazine as one of the 10 inspiring Canadian women saving the environment and a Style Canada 30 Changemakers. She is a registered professional planner and a proud mother of three earthlings. \nFood pedagogies \nCurrent studies of food pedagogies across different spheres and sites contribute to our understanding of food curricula and processes\, moralities\, politics and social hierarchies of difference\, but there is still much work to be done and which this workshop invites. The focus on food studies pedagogy provides a forum to explore the specificities of what makes food\, and food education ‘pedagogical’\, a topic somewhat under-developed to date. How are the processes of formal and informal ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’ designed and performed specifically across different social spaces\, relations and practices in relation to food? Secondly\, the relationship between the ‘pedagogical state’\, its programmes\, food citizenship and expectations for schooling and teachers can be deepened through attention to the materialities of food\, embodiments and the senses. Thirdly\, much research on adult food pedagogies focuses on middle-class foodies but neglects the education and training of food pedagogy related semi-professions such as nurses\, mid-wives\, fitness experts and dieticians. Fourthly\, the ongoing global pandemic has intensified questions about food work and food inequalities but the politics of food pedagogies related to Covid-19 have yet to be explored\, especially in relation to the hostile environment and food poverty. \nFood pedagogies have been defined as attempts by a range of agencies\, actors\, institutions and media to ‘teach’ about growing\, shopping for\, cooking\, eating and wasting food. \nAbout the project \nThis project has been funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) and will lead to a call for papers for a special issue in the Food\, Culture and Society journal\, which brings key sociological debates of food pedagogies to the surface. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMake sure to register HERE:
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/food-systems-equality/event/the-racialised-classed-and-gendered-politics-of-food-pedagogies/
LOCATION:Virtual event\, United Kingdom (UK)
CATEGORIES:Upcoming relevant food events
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SUMMARY:Community-led Food Lives Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:You might know about the Battle of Cable Street but did you know that Cable Street Studios used to be the site of one of the largest confectionery and jam factories\, Batgers and Co in the early 20th Century? Have you heard of the Somali run Café Club Rio that used to be on Ensign Street in the 1950s and 1960s? Come join us for a walk around Shadwell’s forgotten cafes\, factories and soup kitchens and the lively Watney Market of today. We’ll explore the rich social\, cultural and economic history of food and food production. \nFacilitated by researchers from the University of Sussex and the Women’s Environmental Network (WEN)\, you’ll visit some intriguing places and discover unusual multicultural food stories. \nAccessibility and practical information \n• The tour last about 2.5 hours and lunch for one. \n• The tour will take us mostly along pavements and is therefore suitable for anybody using a mobility scooter or wheelchair. \n• There will be the opportunity to use a bathroom along the way and during lunch. \n• Wear comfortable shoes and clothing appropriate for the November weather – including an umbrella\, in case it rains. \n• It’s always best to bring a bottle of water with you. \n  \nLIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE \nClick Here to Register \nFood 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. \n 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/food-systems-equality/event/community-led-food-lives-walking-tour/
LOCATION:Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives\, 277 Bancroft Road\, London\, E1 4DQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Upcoming project events
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SUMMARY:Sustain annual conference #sustain22
DESCRIPTION:The current cost of living crisis\, driven by war\, energy shortages and inflation\, comes on top of a pre-existing poverty crisis in the UK. Before the pandemic\, 22% of people were already living in poverty. Millions more Britons are expected to experience extreme hardship this year. Food aid colleagues are reporting huge surges in demand. \nAccessing a healthy\, sustainable diet is beyond the reach of too many. \nOur (Virtual) conference will bring together a cross sector line up to discuss both short and long term policy solutions to the multiple issues in our food system. \nBook Now \nWith high levels of pre-existing poverty and a cost of living crisis driven by war\, inflation\, rising food prices and political uncertainty\, our conference will provide an opportunity to discuss policy solutions. \nWhat are the roles for politicians and government\, but also civil society\, retailers and the private sector to support people through what is set to be a very difficult winter? And what are the foundations we want to lay now that give us a solid base to build on for the future? We will welcome a cross-sector line up of speakers to explore these questions in detail. \nCome and join us to surface your policy solutions. We hope to see you there! \nSpeakers include: \n\nProfessor Ha-Joon Chang\, Economist and author of ‘Edible Economics- A Hungry Economist Explains the World’\nSheila Dillon\, food journalist and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme\nDaniel Zeichner\, Labour MP for Cambridge and Shadow Minister for Food and Farming\nJo Gideon\, Conservative MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central and Chair of the APPG on the National Food Strategy\nMunira Wilson\, Lib Dem MP for Twickenham and Lib Dem spokesperson for Education\nPete Wishart\, SNP MP for Perth and North Perthshire and SNP spokesperson for Environment\, Food and Rural Affairs\nShefalee Loth\, Senior Researcher and Writer – Nutrition and Food\, Which?\nShaun Spiers\, Executive Director\, Green Alliance\nKat Jenner\, Director\, Obesity Health Alliance\nSabine Goodwin\, Coordinator\, Independent Food Aid Network\nPete Ritchie\, Nourish Scotland\n\nSustain: Sustain The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals\, improve the working and living environment\, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/food-systems-equality/event/sustain-annual-conference-sustain22/
LOCATION:Virtual event\, United Kingdom (UK)
CATEGORIES:Upcoming relevant food events
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