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5-0805 ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES TO FOOD ACTIVISM: AGENCY, DEMOCRACY, AND ECONOMY
Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers:  Valeria Siniscalchi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and Carole M Counihan (Millersville University)
Chairs:  Valeria Siniscalchi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and Carole M Counihan (Millersville University)
13:45
Planting In Deserts: Social Justice and Gardening In Grand Rapids, Michigan
Inez F Adams (Michigan State University and Michigan State University)
14:00
Taste, Emotion, Connection, and Food Activism in Italy
Carole M Counihan (Millersville University)
14:15
Food Activists: Issues of Structure and Agency
Joan Gross (Oregon State)
14:30
City of Gastronomy: Global Recognition, Cultural Assets and Culinary Activism In New Orleans
David I Beriss (University of New Orleans)
14:45
SOS Cooking Matters: Crafting Coalitions for Ending Childhood Hunger by 2015
Ellen Messer (Independent)
15:00
Breastfeeding Advocacy As Food Activism
Penny Van Esterik (York University)
15:15
Break
15:30
The Seed and the Citizen: Building a Fiction of Democracy
Birgit Muller PhD (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
15:45
Food Activism In South India
Joan P Mencher (CUNY)
16:00
‘without Corn There Is No Country’: Struggling for Maize Sovereignty In Mexico’s Neoliberal Food Regime
Elizabeth M Fitting (Dalhousie University)
16:15
De-Centering Slow Food: The Redefinition of Food Activism within Indigenous Communities
Amanda Sophie Green (Oregon State)
16:30
Linking the Right to Food and Peasants’ Rights
Marc Edelman (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)
16:45
Truth and Traceability: Transparent Commodities and New Legal Subjectivities In Honduras
Daniel Reichman (University of Rochester)
17:00
The Slow Food Presidia and the Moral Economy of Food
Valeria Siniscalchi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
17:15
Discussion
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