Food and Contemporary Protest Movements

Sutton, David; Naguib, Nefissa; Vournelis, Leonidas; Dickinson, Maggie

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“…8 See https://www.facebook.com/householdsincrisis?fref=ts Since 2011, we have seen the emergence of a new anthropological literature on the Greek crisis, a sub-field of scholarly activity that constitutes the broader intellectual context for the production of this article. The anthropology of the Greek crisis has embraced a wide array of crisis-related topics, such as, to mention only a few, xenophobia (Herzfeld 2011), temporality (Knight 2012a(Knight , 2012b(Knight , 2013Knight and Stewart 2016), anti-austerity discourse and resistance (Theodossopoulos 2013(Theodossopoulos , 2014a(Theodossopoulos , 2014b, biopolitics (Athanasiou 2012;Rozakou 2012), spontaneity (Dalakoglou 2012), visual and media representations of the crisis (Kalantzis 2012;Papailias 2012), cultural mismatches (Hirschon 2013), food, protest and solidarity (Sutton 2013;Vournelis 2013;Rakopoulos 2013Rakopoulos , 2014aRakopoulos , 2014bKnight 2015b). This growing body of literature has provided nuanced and contextualised accounts that address a wider interpretative vacuum generated by the crisis.…”

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Philanthropy or solidarity? Ethical dilemmas about humanitarianism in crisis‐afflicted Greece

Theodossopoulos

2016

Social Anthropology

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That philanthropy perpetuates the conditions that cause inequality is an old argument shared by thinkers such as Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde and Slavoj Žižek. I recorded variations of the same argument in local conversations regarding growing humanitarian concern in austerity-ridden Greece. Local critiques of the efficacy of humanitarianism, which I explore here ethnographically, bring to the fore two parallel possibilities engendered by the 'humanitarian face' of solidarity initiatives: first, their empowering potential (where solidarity initiatives enhance local social awareness), and second, the depoliticisation of the crisis (a liability that stems from the effectiveness of humanitarianism in ameliorating only temporarily the superficial consequences of the crisis). These two possibilities -which I treat as simultaneous and interrelated -can help us appreciate the complexity and social embeddedness of humanitarian solidarity in times of austerity.

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Philanthropy or solidarity? Ethical dilemmas about humanitarianism in crisis‐afflicted Greece

Theodossopoulos

2016

Social Anthropology

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“…is a language that contextualizes, that situates, that moralizes, and thus that challenges the supposedly neutral, non-cultural language of neoliberal economics' (in Sutton et al, 2013: 346). Similarly, in her autoethnographic account of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Dickinson (in Sutton et al, 2013) explores the workings of the movement's sprawling and highly visible kitchen, writing that '[f]ood, the way it was procured, processed, served and consumed, became a medium for communicating an alternate vision, both for the food system and for the city -one based on equality, solidarity and mutual aid' (p. 361); the kitchen, she argues, was 'a political spectacle' of public organization and mobilization (p. 364). In both examples, while food was not the target of intervention, it was used performatively to challenge an existing political-economic order.…”

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Mobile activism, material imaginings, and the ethics of the edible: Framing political engagement through the Buycott app

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a b s t r a c tIn this article, we explore the discursive constructions of Buycott, a free mobile app that provides a platform for user-generated ethical consumption campaigns. Unlike other ethical consumption apps, Buycott's mode of knowledge production positions the app itself as neutral, with app users generating activist campaigns and providing both data and judgment. Although Buycott is not a dedicated food activism app, food features centrally in its campaigns, and the app seems to provide a mobile means of extending, and perhaps expanding, alternative food network (AFN) action across geographies and constituencies. Thus, as a case study, Buycott unveils contemporary possibilities for citizen participation and the formation of activist consumer communities, both local and transnational, through mobile technologies. Our analysis shows, however, that despite the app's user-generated format, the forms of activism it enables are constrained by the app's binary construction of action as consumption or non-consumption and its ethos of 'voting with your wallet'. Grounded in texts concerning Buycott's two largest campaigns (Demand GMO Labeling and Long live Palestine boycott Israel), our analysis delineates how Buycott, its campaigns, and its modes of action take shape in user, media, and app developer discourses. We find that, as discursively framed, Buycott campaigns are commodity-centric, invoking an 'ethics of care' to be enacted by atomized consumers, in corporate spaces and through mainstream, barcode-bearing, retail products. In user discourses, this corporate spatiality translates into the imagined materializing of issues in products, investing commodities with the substance of an otherwise ethereal cause. This individualized, commodity-centric activism reinforces tenets of the neoliberal market, ultimately turning individual users into consumers not only of products, but also of the app itself. Thus, we suggest, the activist habitus constructed through Buycott is a neoliberal, consumer habitus.

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“…Las protestas causadas por el hambre han sido, históricamente, una fuente de revueltas, como las del 2011 en la plaza Tahrir de Egipto (Lagi, Bertrand y Bar-Yam, 2011). En Grecia, en el 2011, "comer" se usó como metáfora del consumo desmedido y, durante la crisis de deuda soberana la pregunta era quién se había comido el dinero (Sutton, 2011;Sutton et. al., 2013).…”

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Justicia social y gastronomía

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2020

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The Platform/El hoyo es una fábula de terror que utiliza la comida como metáfora para criticar el sistema social actual y la falta de un reparto equitativo de recursos limitados. En ella, el monstruo deriva de las reacciones de los propios personajes al verse excluidos de los escalafones más ricos de la sociedad carcelaria que habitan. Ante esta situación, se plantean diferentes reacciones: la lucha individual por la supervivencia, las tentativas de concienciación social y el intento de revolución social. La historia da al espectador la oportunidad de realizar estas reflexiones morales utilizando el terror como plataforma para ello, pero sin llegar a una conclusión firme de qué camino se puede seguir para conseguir un futuro que se aleje de dicho género. En este artículo se analizan las implicaciones de las acciones de los diversos personajes, utilizando referentes literarios y sociales, poniendo especial énfasis en el uso de los alimentos por ser el eje principal que motiva y mueve a los personajes a la vez que crea dilemas éticos.

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Food and Contemporary Protest Movements

Cited by 17 publications

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Philanthropy or solidarity? Ethical dilemmas about humanitarianism in crisis‐afflicted Greece

Philanthropy or solidarity? Ethical dilemmas about humanitarianism in crisis‐afflicted Greece

Mobile activism, material imaginings, and the ethics of the edible: Framing political engagement through the Buycott app

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