When we eat, we are always eating landscapes. Water and chemicals flow into food, then into the microbes dining in our intestines, connecting us metabolically to ecosystems where food production takes place. This talk will reflect on food as a medium to cultivate awareness of hydrosocial interdependence and stimulate more equitable modes of coexistence, care, and multispecies community. Lisa Blackmore will focus on the project Piquete del Río Bogotá, a communal lunch organized as the entre—ríos collective...
“The Petro-State Masquerade” considers how postcolonial political futures in the Caribbean nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago came to be staked to the market futures of oil, natural gas, and their petrochemical derivatives. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, Jobson theorizes how the tenuous relationship between oil and political power—enshrined in the hyphenated form of the petro-state—is represented by postcolonial state officials as a Carnivalesque “masquerade of permanence” through the perpetual...
Over a 40-year period, agrarian reform and counter-reform, state subsidies and neoliberal restructuring in Chile have combined with global technological advances and shifting food tastes to fuel the growth and maturation of a highly profitable fresh fruit sector. The great majority of its work force has been comprised of young and middle-aged women whose situation has changed considerably since their initial portrayal in the 1980s as prototypical victims of neoliberalism.
W. L. Goldfrank is a professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz,...
