Violence, Hunger and Seeds of Care
Violence, Hunger and Seeds of Care By Sanelisiwe Nyaba and Haidee Swanby August 2021 In 2020, when the Covid 19 pandemic struck, the South African government implemented some of the…
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Corporate fast-food advertising targeting children in South Africa
Corporate fast-food advertising targeting children in South Africa by Desiree Lewis, Sheetal Bhoola and Lynn Mafofo (This chapter will be published in the Child Gauge, (UCT) in 2020) The health…
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Invisible Urban Farmers and a Next Season of Hunger
Invisible Urban Farmers and a Next Season of Hunger– Participatory Co-research during Lockdown in Cape Town, South Africa Nomonde Buthelezi, Razack Karriem, Stefanie Lemke, Nicole Paganini,Silke Stöber, Haidee Swanby This…
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Food through the lens of Covid 19
Food through the lens of Covid 19 Fernanda Pesce Biazquez, AFP. South Africa food queues. Dr. Sheetal Bhoola reflects on the ways that the pandemic has revealed inequity in…
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Zifunyanwa ngabatheni? Parcelling out food during the South African lockdown
Zifunyanwa ngabatheni? Parcelling out food during the South African lockdown 19 May 2020 Sivuyisiwe Veronica Wonci critically reflects on her experience with food parcels during COVID19 in Plettenberg Bay and…
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Healthy diets in the Covid19 lockdown: much more than a matter of choice?
Healthy diets in the Covid19 lockdown: much more than a matter of choice? by Bannosi Mayimela & Mbali Shabalala. 23 April 2020 A movement of purchasing vendors’ stock just before…
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Constructing the Halal Kitchen in the American Diaspora
Constructing the Halal Kitchen in the American Diaspora, by Farha Ternikar, PhD Associate Professor of Sociology, Le Moyne College, USA 10 April 2020 This new project seeks to explore how we can…
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Gems from our archives – Yvette Abrahams 2016
How must I explain it to the dolphins?: Theorizing the epistemology of uncertainty through an intersectional approach to climate change Yvette Abrahams, Ph.D. Dept. Women & Gender Studies University of…
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Reflecting on socio-ecological transformation research: critical questions to consider
In this article, Reflecting on socio-ecological transformation research: critical questions to consider, Donna Andrews argues that conceptions of earth democracy and earth justice need to be at the heart of such…
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Food in the Time of Race: Ruminations on Cultural Sustainability and Black Food Energy
Food in the Time of Race: Ruminations on Cultural Sustainability and Black Food Energy by Psyche Williams-Forson, Ph.D. Food is a problem. I am not talking here just about accessing…
Read MoreFrom our archives – Food is an African Feminist Issue by Elaine Salo
Food is an African Feminist Issue Elaine Salo November 2015 Read more
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Urban foodscapes in Woodstock, Cape Town and ‘Glocalised’ supermarkets
Balmoral Supermarket, Woodstock. Source: Google Maps Urban foodscapes in Woodstock, Cape Town and ‘Glocalised’ supermarkets Paper presented at “Making a Mess: Intersectionality and Food Studies” Conference, University of Minnesota. August…
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Enraged: Women and Nature
Enraged: Women and Nature Donna Andrews, Kiah Smith and M. Alejandra Morena 11/10/2019 We are pleased to share with you a piece co-authored by a member of the CFS…
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Food Sovereignty as Freedom
At Kasisi agroecology training centre, Zambia Food Sovereignty as Freedom A work in progress by Haidee Swanby (UWC Masters) 2 September 2019 Key words: food sovereignty, sovereignty, freedom, visceral, new…
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Thinking through transdisciplinarity: Dis-ease workshop
Thinking through transdisciplinarity: Dis-ease workshop By Desiree Lewis The State of Dis-ease transdisciplinary workshop organized by Beth Vale for the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (JIAS) (25 and 28 March)…
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Finding a way forward for the South African food system
by Prof. Julian May, Director: NRF-DST Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of the Western Cape 11 March 2019 The 55th Salon International de l’Agriculture/Paris International Agricultural…
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The United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the instructive lessons that can be drawn from FAO’s 1960s Freedom from Hunger Campaign
The United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the instructive lessons that can be drawn from FAO’s 1960s Freedom from Hunger Campaign by Glen Ncube, University of Pretoria Work…
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Cultures and Cuisines: A Peek at Our Early History
by Robert Kriger On Mandela day, 18 July 2018, Renata Coetzee’s celebrated book – A Feast From Nature – was relaunched to bring wider attention to her contribution towards building national and…
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Regulating Food Waste in the City
Regulating Food Waste in the City Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Food Studies, For: Theme on Food Production and Sustainability 27 October 2017, University of Tre, Rome…
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Food Studies and the Pitfalls of Interdisciplinarity by Desiree Lewis
Food Studies and the Pitfalls of Interdisciplinarity by Desiree Lewis Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Food Studies, For: Theme on Food Politics, Policies and Cultures 27 October…
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Food and “Excess” in Rome by Desiree Lewis
Food and “Excess” in Rome by Desiree Lewis This is the first post in the Reflections on Food, Fun and Culture in Rome where we will do a series of blog posts…
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Food as a Personal and Political Encounter by Angelo Fick
This post features Angelo Fick talk at The Future (s) of Food panel discussion hosted by Food Politics and Cultures Project within the Centre of Excellence in Food Security in…
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“Decolonising Food Systems and Sowing Seeds of Resistance.”
“Decolonising Food Systems and Sowing Seeds of Resistance.” (Revised) Article by Donna Andrews and Desiree Lewis Published by the African Centre for Biodiversity Download full article here Introduction It…
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Some Everyday Rituals Around Food and Eating
Some Everyday Rituals Around Food and Eating: A Conversation about Pickled Fish by Donna Andrews and Suzall Timm Particular foods carry very poignant and profound meanings – about spaces, emotions,…
Read MoreBodies, Matter and Feminist Freedoms
Bodies, Matter and Feminist Freedoms: Revisiting the Politics of Food by Desiree Lewis Desiree Lewis is Principal Researcher on the Food Politics and Cultures Project, funded by the Mellon Foundation…
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Food, Anxiety, Freedom: Essay published in ‘Chimurenga Chronic’
A Draft Essay by Desiree Lewis in the April 2017, ‘Chimurenga Chronic’ Politics and scholarship about food in the global South are invariably linked to ideas about deprivation, suffering and political…
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Food Studies and the Humanities: Prospects for Different North-South Dialogues
Food Studies and the Humanities: Prospects for Different North-South Dialogues Paper Presented at Symposium on Afro-European Food Studies Encounter University of Jyvaskyla, December 7-8, 2015. Written by Desiree Lewis…
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