Call for Submissions, "Food Fights: A Global Perspective," Zapruder World 5 (2018)
Over
the past three decades, scholars and activists engaged in agriculture,
food systems, and consumerism have demonstrated food’s significance to
the human experience, particularly during the modern epoch. The subject
of food provides scholars with an attractive interpretive lens for
examining the dynamics of globalization and transnationality by shedding
light on a wide range of hitherto unexamined processes and diverse
political, economic, and cultural relationships. Drawing upon insights
from History, Anthropology, and Sociology, as well as food policy
studies and urban planning, a number of interdisciplinary studies have
demonstrated the central role of food in the formation and
disintegration of ethnic and cultural identities, the industrialization
and commercialization of food production and consumption, and the
consequences of both for elite power and subaltern agency on both
national and international scales of analysis. However, while such
studies have often employed food as a proxy for examining the politics
and economics of power relations in various places and regions,
historians and scholars of other fields are only beginning to advance
our understanding of the direct intersections between food and the
global history of transnational power structures and instances of
popular resistance.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
This volume of Zapruder World
will focus on how the production, distribution, and consumption of
food—as well as its scarcity—have assisted or resisted the spread of
state and commercial power in an increasingly “globalized” marketplace.
We call for studies which move beyond the utilization of food as a proxy
for analyzing (inter)national political or economic relationships,
focusing indstead on food’s contributions to the construction of global
commercial or imperial systems and the ways in which global power
dynamics have engendered forms of popular mobilization and resistance
via food, food systems, and food cultures.
TOPICS AND THEMES
Thus,
we invite contributions focusing on any area of the world since the
eighteenth century which address one or more of the following themes:
Food, Power, and Capital
● Food and the State
● Food and Capitalism / Global Markets
● Food and Empire / Globalization
● The History of Famine, Food Deprivation, & Starvation
● The Politics of Food Abundance
● Welfare State Food Programs
Food, Conflicts, and Movements
● Food and War / Revolution
● Food Riots
● Food Security / Sovereignty
● Food and Identity / Community / Movement Building
● Food and Social / Political Activism
● Black Markets as Acts of Resistance
In
addition to scholarly articles, we invite submissions of non-essay form
original work, such as photo essays, videos, interviews, drawings,
comics, songs, hyperlinks to online resources, multimedia, etc., both
accompanying the articles themselves and as standalone contributions. We
encourage authors to think about incorporating multimedia both into
their pieces proposed for Zapruder World and in the sections we have created on the journal’s website (e.g. "Yesterday" and "Today"—see http://www.zapruderworld.org/past-volumes/ for more information).
VOLUME DEADLINES AND SCHEDULE
Abstracts in English (300-600 words) shall be sent to submissions@zapruderworld.org by January 15, 2018. All contributors will be informed about the status of their abstract submission by March 15, 2018. Full articles (preferably 6,000-9,000 words) will be expected by May 30, 2018. The published volume will appear both on Zapruder World’s website and as a typesetted, downloadable PDF by June 30, 2018.
For information on Zapruder World’s peer review process or submission instructions, please see the following URLs:
● Peer Review Procedures: http://www.zapruderworld.org/peer-review-procedures/
● Submissions Instructions: http://www.zapruderworld.org/submissions-instructions/
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