Fwd: AAC – Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) – « Food and Farming Revivalism as Response to Crises »
Morgan Jenatton
"Tradition is the New Normal: Food and Farming Revivalism as Response to Crises"
SOAS, University of London, 11 - 14 avril, 2023
Date limite pour reception de propositions: 3 janvier, 2023
On suis heureux de vous partager le panel que nous organisons pour la prochaine conférence annuelle de l’Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) qui se tiendra à SOAS, University of London le 11 - 14 avril 2023. La conférence de cette année s’intitule « An Unwell World? Anthropology in a Speculative Mode » et propose une réflexion à la place des visions de bien-être, d’espoir et d’autres futures possibles dans nos analyses en sciences sociales.
Notre panel s’intitule « Tradition is the New Normal: Food and Farming Revivalism as Response to Crises » et propose d’aborder ces réflexions autour de l’alimentation et l’agriculture, notamment au prisme des pratiques qui se réfèrent à des temporalités du passé pour répondre aux crises sociales et écologiques du présent. Vous trouverez ci-dessous le résumé pour notre panel. Nous attendons avec plaisir vos propositions (en anglais) avant le 3 janvier 2023, à soumettre directement sur la page de la conférence : https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/asa2023/p/12867
Bien cordialement,
Morgan Jenatton
Doctorant en sociologie, Centre Norbert Elias/EHESS et El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Mexique)
Docteur en anthropologie, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains/ULB
This panel explores how subjects react to crises through a revival of ostensibly traditional food and farming systems. Panellists are invited to discuss how food and farming revivalist practices respond to and are occasioned by different crises (ecological, democratic, economic, epidemiological).
Long Abstract:
This panel speaks to the theme of an “Unwell World?” by exploring how subjects react to crises through a “revival” of ostensibly traditional foods and farming systems. Panellists are invited to reflect on how these revivalist practices respond to and are occasioned by different crises (ecological, democratic, economic, epidemiological).
Anthropologists studying crises have noted that crisis designates an inflection point at which subjects must choose between alternative futures (Barrios 2017; Roitman 2014). The imagined past – that revivalists (re)create through cultivation, crop-care, food preparation and eating – shapes the imagination of possible futures (Angé & Berliner 2020). Reconstructing the past through farming systems might highlight links between the asymmetrical burdens imposed by global industrial-agriculture and the diminishing health conditions of populations increasingly dependent upon hyper-processed foods (Gálvez 2018; Campbell 2009). More locally, connecting with an imagined past through food and farming may enable subjects to contest entrenched class, gender, and racial hierarchies (Suremain & Matta 2013).
While adopting “heritage” food practices (Littaye 2016; Weiss 2016; Ives 2017) might enable futures in which populations are less exposed to environmental and health hazards, it is worth considering what other futures revivalism forecloses. What challenges to industrial-agriculture and globalised capitalism are rendered mute by turning to “tradition” as a political fix? What solidarities are made unimaginable by local revivalisms? What pasts are taken as a reference, and how are they recomposed today? What arbitrations are deployed in the elaboration of what are ultimately new practices reborn from a nostalgic past?