*CFP* "DISCOURSES ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD", THE 2ND BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD & COMMUNICATION

The 2nd Biennial Conference on Food & Communication

Discourses on the Future of Food

Ljubljana, 15-17 September 2021

(due to Covid-19 postponed from 23-25 September 2020)

 

We kindly ask participants that submitted their abstracts last year, when the conference was cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic, to resubmit.

Food is a key means through which we construct and represent ourselves discursively. Food features as a powerful cultural signifier, often evoking associations with issues of gender, class, race and identity. Food-related activities, such as grocery shopping, meal preparation and eating, along with the public and private spaces in which these activities occur, provide the basis for many of our complex daily communicative practices. Food also is located at the core of many of the most challenging social issues of our time, often manifested in oppressive relations of inequality, and in the placement of food at the center of calls for social justice.

*CFP* “DISCOURSES ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD”, 2ND BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD & COMMUNICATION 2020

The 2nd Biennial Conference on Food & Communication 2020

Discourses on The Future of Food

23-25 de Septiembre, 2020

University of Ljubljana

Keynote speaker Prof. Josée Johnston, University of Toronto

Food features as a powerful cultural signifier, often evoking associations with issues of gender, class, race and power. Food-related activities, such as grocery shopping, meal preparation, and eating, along with the public and private spaces in which these activities occur, provide the basis for many of our complex daily communicative practices.

Food is also located at the core of some of the most challenging social issues of our time, often manifested in oppressive relations of inequality, and in the placement of food at the center of calls for social justice. Today, cumulative food-related crises and controversies have become central to ongoing attempts to address the health of the global population and the planet.

*CFP* “MEDIATIONS OF FOOD: IDENTITY, POWER, AND CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL IMAGINARIES”, THE GLOBAL MEDIA JOURNAL — CANADIAN EDITION 2019: VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1

In the field of transnational media studies, food and food cultures are traditionally examined as type of media content, environmental/commodity object, or mode of sustenance (with some cultural significance), or, alternatively, as medium through which relations of gender, class, sexuality, and dis/ability are made manifest. Given this bifurcated lens, this issue seeks to bring together articles that examine the nexus between food cultures, identity, and media representation in more detail. Specifically, we seek submissions that use food as a lens through which to study how its mediated representation (e.g. television, print, film, the Internet/social media) reflects complicated histories of colonialism, empire, neoliberalism, and inequality, but also cultural resilience, social belonging, community, and political awareness.

Papers that draw into this discussion the complicated relationship between food media and racialisation, gender, class, sexuality, dis/ability, and other manifestations of identity are particularly welcome – especially those that take an intersectional approach and engage with the significance of changing and culturally contingent conceptions of health and bodily comportment. Articles that examine the use of food as a form of power and resistance, in both productive and dangerous ways, and which reveal how larger patters oppression and marginalization intersect with the social imagery, political economy, public policy, and cultural survival are also desirable.