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Friday, January 14, 2022
By: Jennifer Whitaker Dr. Candan Türkkan is a professor of politics and sustainability in Ozyegin University's Gastronomy and Culinary Arts department in Istanbul, Turkey. At the 2021 Food Matters and Materialities conference, Dr. Türkkan gave a presentation about local food movements in Istanbul, which, she argues, contribute to the... More
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
By: Arlette Martinez Alfonso Gómez-Rossi has been teaching at the Instituto Universitario Boulanger since 2006. At the Food Matters & Materialities Conference, he presented a fascinating research paper entitled "The Rejection of Mexican Quelites: A Study of Cultural Culinary Hegemony in Mexico". We talked more about his work over Zoom. AM:... More
Monday, December 20, 2021
This episode of the Food Matters podcast series features an interview with Isabella Altoé, a PhD student at Queen's University and recent presenter at the 2021 Food Matters and Materialities conference. In this episode, we explore what agroecology is, how it is different from other food movements, two examples of agroecological movements in... More
Thursday, December 16, 2021
By: Lalla Maiga Protected Geographical Indications (PGIs) were introduced by the European Union (EU) to protect the names of products with a specific quality relating to where and how they are made. Examples range from Champagne from the Champagne region of France to Tequila from Mexico. In the same vein, manufacturers of turrón, a... More
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
By: Jennifer Whitaker Dr. Lynne Milgram is an economic anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This fall, Dr. Milgram presented her recent work, which investigates ‘social enterprise’ initiatives in the Northern Philippines Arabica coffee industry. I had the opportunity to interview Dr.... More
Friday, December 10, 2021
By: Lalla Maiga At the 2021 Food Matters and Materialities Conference, Priya Chandrasekaran presented a fascinating discussion on her ethnographic research at Uttarakhand, India, on the millet grain. Her focus on millet encourages us to seek a connection between capitalistic endeavours and environmental justice. Following her presentation, here is... More
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
By: Grace Ingraham How does a petition about a grocery store connect to gentrification processes in the Toronto area? This is the question Cameron Butler, a PhD student at York University, found himself addressing when he moved to the Junction Triangle area in Toronto. Cameron recently presented his paper, “Another Discount, Garbage Grocery... More
Friday, December 3, 2021
By: Lalla Maiga Jacqueline Botterill is an Associate Professor at Brock University and communication researcher. In her research, she explores how the phone entangles itself into our daily eating rituals. During the Food Matters and Materialities Conference, Jacqueline shared some current research and unique insights from her discussions with... More
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
By: Jennifer Whitaker Dr. Irena Knezevic is an assistant professor of communication studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She has worked in the realm of ‘alternative food’ for over a decade, with her work largely focussed on community-embedded research. Dr. Knezevic’s presentation at the Food Matters & Materialities... More
Friday, November 26, 2021
By: Grace Ingraham “I hope I am encouraging people to think about the food that we eat not as products but as relations” – Natalie Doonan Natalie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at l’Université de Montréal. For many years her research has been based in food, studying the relationship between... More
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
By: Lalla Maiga Indigenous peoples for centuries have been displaced of their lands and resources. The pattern continues today, with the traditional origins of quinoa being suppressed by recent developments in mapping the quinoa genome. In this light, Fabiana Li, an anthropologist and assistant professor at the University of Manitoba,... More
Monday, November 22, 2021
By: Grace Ingraham Sophie is an environmental anthropologist and multispecies ethnographer. Sophie’s research has taken her to places such as a remote area of West Papua where she got to learn with the local Indigenous Marind population. Sophie is also a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Sydney’s School of Philosophical and... More
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