You-Will-Kill-Me-Beans: Taste and the Politics of Necessity in Humanitarian Aid

Trapp, Micah M.

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“…The conceptual problem that sits at the centre of the above intervention asks: what minimum conditions would eliminate the need for food-insecure populations to employ coping strategies? However, framing the research premise in this way assumes that people's coping strategies respond primarily to food scarcity; but what if they do not (Trapp 2016)? While interview-based qualitative work might well affi rm the presumption that they do, anthropology would minimally ask about which specifi c strategies respond to and emerge from deeply integrating social practices.…”

Section: Qualitative Methods and Diminished Anthropology?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…How families, groups, clans, communities and se lement confi gurations link to one another across time and via aff ective needs and aspirations ma ers for our discipline. These presumptions lead to the need to distinguish between a strategy that responds primarily to a slowly evolving food emergency and one that exists to affi rm social identities and identifi cations that assume critical importance during food shortages (Trapp 2016).…”

Section: Qualitative Methods and Diminished Anthropology?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reynolds

Lange

2019

Anthropology in Action

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Since the turn of the millennium, conceptual and practice-oriented shi s in global health have increasingly given emphasis to health indicator production over research and interventions that emerge out of local social practices, environments and concerns. In this special issue of Anthropology in Action, we ask whether such globalised contexts allow for, recognise and suffi ciently value the research contributions of our discipline. We question how global health research, ostensibly inter-or multi-disciplinary, generates knowledge. We query 'notknowing' practices that inform and shape global health evidence as infl uenced by funders' and collaborators' expectations. The articles published here provide analyses of historical and ethnographic fi eld experiences that show how sidelining anthropological contributions results in poorer research outcomes for the public. Citing experiences in Latin America, Angola, Senegal, Nigeria and the domain of global health evaluation, the authors consider anthropology's roles in global health. AssumptionsWe do not reprise here debates about how anthropologists defi ne global health (for example, Janes and Corbe 2010; Kleinman 2010; and Nguyen 2016); neither do we make the reductive argument that anthropology brings value to global health primarily as a method for conducting formative research or evaluation; nor do we explicitly explore anthropology's long history of critical engagement with numbers and statistics (for example, Asad 1994; Erikson

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Section: Qualitative Methods and Diminished Anthropology?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Qualitative Methods and Diminished Anthropology?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reynolds

Lange

2019

Anthropology in Action

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“…Les « émeutes de la faim » de 2007-2008 ont réactualisé la pertinence de ces analyses. Au Nord (Dickinson 2016), comme au Sud (Trapp 2016), l'accès à l'aide alimentaire est l'objet de jugements moraux qui ont partie liée à des enjeux politiques. Par ailleurs, les dispositifs d'aide sont de plus en plus reliés à des thèmes politiques, comme celui de la « démocratie alimentaire » (Lang 1998).…”

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La politisation de l’alimentation ordinaire par le marché

Lepiller¹,

Yount‐André²

2019

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La politisation de l'alimentation ordinaire par le marché https://journals.openedition.org/revss/3901#quotation 1/13 61 | 2019 Dissidences alimentaires Contestations et réarrangements La politisation de l'alimentation ordinaire par le marché The Market's Politicization of Ordinary Food O L C Y-A p. 26-35 Résumés Français English Les grandes entreprises de l'alimentation de masse font aujourd'hui face à des critiques, à une défiance croissante et à un tassement de leurs parts de marché. Si les dimensions politiques de l'assiette engagée des militants et de l'assiette caritative des pauvres et des aidés ont été pointées dans la littérature, celles de l'assiette ordinaire de la consommation de masse ont été peu abordées. Cet article dépeint l'évolution de la défiance, en France et aux États-Unis, depuis une cinquantaine d'années, et ses effets visibles dans les transformations de l'offre alimentaire, à travers le recyclage, par les industriels, des critiques à leur endroit. L'article donne à voir un processus qui conduit à une visibilité croissante des dimensions politiques de l'alimentation industrielle de masse-au sens de la multiplication des choix par lesquels l'alimentation connecte et insère les mangeurs dans un système social et technique. En effet, le recyclage de la critique conduit à une diversification des qualités : modes de production, origine et nature des matières premières. Cette diversification souligne indirectement l'opacité des marques historiques et de l'alimentation de masse. La contingence des choix qui guident leur production en devient plus apparente. Le rapport critique, voire conflictuel, à l'alimentation industrielle de masse devient ainsi moteur d'une politisation de l'alimentation ordinaire. Cette réintroduction du politique dans le marché témoigne de la dimension constructive de la défiance. The world's largest food corporations have been losing market share, faced with criticism and mounting consumer mistrust. While previous scholarship has demonstrated the political dimensions of, what we call, the engaged plate of food activists and the charitable plate offered to the poor, the politics of the ordinary plate of mass consumption have been largely overlooked. This article considers the evolution of distrust in France and the United States over the past 50 years, analyzing the visible effects which these transformations have had on the food supply, as the food industry has recycled the critiques it has received. The article investigates a process through which the political nature of eating has become increasingly visible within the mass industrial food system-in the sense that choices have multiplied regarding how food connects eaters and concretely positions them in social and technical systems. The food industry's responses to criticism have resulted in the diversification of labels advertising production methods and the origin of ingredients. This diversification indirectly highlights the opacity of the historically powerful food companies. The contingency of the choices that guide...

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“…The practice mirrors what you might see in a grocery store produce aisle or at a market stall; selection is just as important to recipients of a subsidized good as it is to customers paying market price for their food. Taste matters, including to those reliant on free or subsidized food (Trapp ).…”

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Care and Conveyance: Buying Baladi Bread in Cairo

Barnes¹,

Taher²

2019

Cult. Anthropol.

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The streets are already busy, despite the early hour. Minibuses jostle for space alongside bicycles, cars, and motorbikes, the fumes of idling vehicles filling the air. Honking horns punctuate a background noise of Quranic recitations playing from radios, pop music broadcasting from a store, and a babble of animated conversation. Vendors are setting up their stands for the day, peeling layers of decay off cabbages and lettuce, stacking oranges one atop another. A small hut stands by the side of the road, its window open at the front. The booth is nondescript, unmarked by any sign, with no produce on display or smells emanating from it. Within the darkened space, a woman sits behind a counter. A customer approaches. "I'll have a pound's worth, please," he says, placing several coins on the counter and handing over a plastic card. 1 The woman puts the card into a small handheld machine and then reaches toward the shelves that line both sides of the booth. She starts pulling down loaves of round, flat bread, placing twenty on the bran-covered counter, and handing back the card. The customer picks up the bread, feeling the loaves and glancing briefly at each one in turn. He sets aside four loaves, which the woman exchanges for four new ones. He then moves to one side CARE AND CONVEYANCE: Buying Baladi Bread in Cairo CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 34:3 418and spreads out his bread on the hood of a car that is parked nearby. After a few minutes, he stacks the now-cooled bread into neat piles and places it in the plastic bag he has brought with him. He departs, the bulging bag of bread in one hand, smaller bags of beans, greens, and tomatoes in the other.This simple transaction in a Cairo neighborhood in the winter of 2015 might appear to hold little significance. Underlying the transaction, though, is a set of social, material, political, and economic relationships that reaches far beyond those of a man buying bread. The moment of card-money-bread exchange marks an interface between a government subsidy system, private business, staple food, and the millions of people who eat this food every day. The bread the customer is purchasing is a particular kind of bread, known as baladi bread, which is subsidized by the government and eaten by the majority of Egyptians (according to the government's statistics, around 85 percent) on a daily basis (see figure 1). 2 The card the customer hands over is a ration card, which entitles him to five loaves of baladi bread a day for each member of his family. The money he pays covers the cost of twenty loaves at the subsidized price of 5 piasters a loaf, a tenth of the price of other kinds of bread (less than half a U.S. cent per loaf). 3 The bakery he is buying from is private, but the content and size of the baladi bread it produces are regulated by the government. The way he is handling the bread, checking it for defects, Figure 1. Baladi bread with beans and mulokhiya (jute mallow). Photo by Mariam Taher. CARE AND CONVEYANCE

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You-Will-Kill-Me-Beans: Taste and the Politics of Necessity in Humanitarian Aid

Cited by 25 publications

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