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While interest in the relations of power and identity in food
explodes, a hesitancy remains about calling these racial. What
difference does race make in the fields where food is grown, the
places it is sold and the manner in which it is eaten? How do we
understand farming and provisioning, tasting and picking, eating
and being eaten, hunger and gardening better by paying attention to
race? This collection argues there is an unacknowledged racial
dimension to the production and consumption of food under
globalization. Building on case studies from across the world, it
advances the conceptualization of race by emphasizing embodiment,
circulation and materiality, while adding to food advocacy an
antiracist perspective it often lacks. Within the three
socio-physical spatialities of food - fields, bodies and markets -
the collection reveals how race and food are intricately linked. An
international and multidisciplinary team of scholars complements
each other to shed light on how human groups become entrenched in
myriad hierarchies through food, at scales from the dining room and
market stall to the slave trade and empire. Following foodways as
they constitute racial formations in often surprising ways, the
chapters achieve a novel approach to the process of race as one
that cannot be reduced to biology, culture or capitalism.
While interest in the relations of power and identity in food
explodes, a hesitancy remains about calling these racial. What
difference does race make in the fields where food is grown, the
places it is sold and the manner in which it is eaten? How do we
understand farming and provisioning, tasting and picking, eating
and being eaten, hunger and gardening better by paying attention to
race? This collection argues there is an unacknowledged racial
dimension to the production and consumption of food under
globalization. Building on case studies from across the world, it
advances the conceptualization of race by emphasizing embodiment,
circulation and materiality, while adding to food advocacy an
antiracist perspective it often lacks. Within the three
socio-physical spatialities of food - fields, bodies and markets -
the collection reveals how race and food are intricately linked. An
international and multidisciplinary team of scholars complements
each other to shed light on how human groups become entrenched in
myriad hierarchies through food, at scales from the dining room and
market stall to the slave trade and empire. Following foodways as
they constitute racial formations in often surprising ways, the
chapters achieve a novel approach to the process of race as one
that cannot be reduced to biology, culture or capitalism.
Powerlessness, marginality, and dispossession are found in all
corners of the world. The aim of this book is to enable
facilitators from inside, as well as outside, communities to
empower those people who are frequently omitted from the
decision-making process.;The book explores participatory approaches
to development and offers innovative, collaborative tools for
working with local groups and communities. The tools described
here, are sensitive to cultural and social differences, and have
been designed to increase the capacities of local communities,
NGOs, and public sector agencies by integrating applied and
analytical methods for consciousness-raising, data-gathering,
community decision-making, advocacy and development activities.;The
book focuses on participatory capacity-building in ways that
address the practical needs and strategic interests of the
disadvantaged and disempowered, and it pays particular attention to
gender issues. Other issues examined by this book include how
differences in class, ethnicity, race, caste, religion, age and
status may also lead to the "politics of exclusion" that this book
aims to avoid.;In addition to being a tool book, the contributors
also address some of the issues raised through working in a
participatory way, such as: the ends and means of participation,
uneven relations of power among participants, temporal context,
spatial scale, and the array of organizations involved.
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