Eating in Class: Notes on Nourishment and Decolonial Pedagogy

Carina Truyts

Tag: Decolonial anthropology

Eating in Class: Notes on Nourishment and Decolonial Pedagogy

Post author Carina Truyts
Post date February 17, 2020

This article is part of the following series: Decentering Metabolism: Peripheral and Southern Diffractions

It’s a common adage, following Lévi-Strauss, that “food is good to think with.” A class assignment that includes food-centred ethnographic presentations expands the scope of such thinking into embodied and institutional memory. Below I describe such a class feast prepared by second-year social anthropology students at Sol Plaatje University in 2019 (one of two post-Apartheid South African Universities). The idea …

Tags Body/embodiment, Decolonial anthropology, Food studies, Metabolism, pedagogy

Lectures

Decentering Metabolism: Peripheral and Southern Diffractions

Post author Maurizio Meloni and Victoria Stead
Post date January 27, 2020

This article is part of the following series: Decentering Metabolism: Peripheral and Southern Diffractions

In the last few years, a renewed interest in metabolic exchange, and in ideas of a porous and permeable body, has come from disciplines like microbiomics, nutrigenomics, and epigenetics. Moreover, a number of technological changes from food manufacturing to different body/technology interfaces have brought to light conceptions of a “new metabolism” offering “a window onto profound changes to the material and conceptual constitution of …

Tags Decolonial anthropology, ecologies, Interdisciplinarity, knowledges, Medical Anthropology, Metabolism

Features

Respect, care, and labor in collaborative scholarly projects

Post author Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, Dominique P. Béhague, Adia Benton, Betsey Brada, Thomas Cousins, Des Fitzgerald, Michele Friedner, Frédéric Keck, Janina Kehr, Ann H. Kelly, Javier Lezaun, Tomas Matza, Ken MacLeish, Todd Meyers, Gergely Mohácsi, Cristian R. Montenegro, Neely Myers, Eugene Raikhel, Emilia Sanabria, Aaron Seaman, Lily Shapiro, Harris Solomon, Noah Tamarkin, Janelle Taylor, Matthew Wolf-Meyer and Emily Yates-Doerr
Post date July 2, 2018

As members of Somatosphere’s Editorial Collaborative, we have been following the unfolding crisis surrounding Hau with profound concern (Agro 2018, Flaherty 2018). As others have noted, this crisis has revealed multiple structural issues that deserve intense engagement beyond the specifics of the individual case: open-access (OA), digital scholarship and publication, yes, but also academic power, precarity, and vulnerability; …

Tags Collaboration, Decolonial anthropology, Labor, Open access, Precarity, Publishing