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A Food Researchers in Edinburgh (FRiED) Seminar.<\/p>\n

Our speaker will be Dr Elaine Swan, Reader in Feminist Food Studies at the University of Sussex. One of Elaine\u2019s 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<\/a> (FoodSEqual) project. More about her work can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 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).\u00a0 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 \u2018local food\u2019 within translocal communities, particularly focusing on ideas of gendered racialisation and the whiteness of food localism. Academics and activists food call for \u2018alternatives\u2019 to the industrial food system, paying attention to the \u2018local\u2019 as the \u2018alternative\u2019 to address the \u2018socio-environmental\u2019 deficits of globalised food systems. In many cases, the \u2018local\u2019 as some scholars critique, takes a narrow, situated, place-based approach, described as \u2018defensive\u2019 or \u2018nativist\u2019 localism (du Puis and Goodman, 2005).<\/p>\n

Extending 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 \u2018translocal subjectivities\u2019 and \u2018translocal communities\u2019 such as the American Filipinos she studies. To expand understandings of \u2018local-ness\u2019, and build an inclusive food politics, in her view, requires an embodied, sensory and mobile understanding of \u2018local-ness\u2019 and transnationalism. In our paper, we build on Valiente-Neighbours\u2019 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).<\/p>\n

Based on our visual analysis, we examine the diverse meanings of \u2018local food\u2019 within translocal communities, particularly focusing on ideas of gendered racialisation and the whiteness of food localism. \u00a0We 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 \u2018the local\u2019 through an embodied, mobile, gendered and racialised understanding of \u2018local-ness\u2019 taking into account complex geographies of mobilities of people and food. Secondly, we raise questions about whether \u2018access to local food\u2019 (narrowly perceived) should be at the centre of addressing food inequalities in a racialised translocal context.<\/p>\n

To 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\u2019s talk will begin at 1pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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