VIDEOS

Virtual Seminar 3:
Centering African Feminism in Food Cultures and Politics

27 July 2021

Featuring: Pat Mcfadden, Yvette Abrahams, Ruth Nyambura and Mercia Andrews  Download the event poster here

Although African women are centrally involved in the preparation, production and struggles around food, activist and academic domains rarely acknowledge their centrality as knowledge producers in food struggles, agroecology and critical food literacy. In this panel discussion, four feminists who are pivotally involved in food struggles address key social, cultural, environmental and nutritional concerns from the perspective of radical African-centred feminist perspectives. The themes discussed are: 1. Current food systems, neo-imperialism and African women and feminism 2. Who are the experts? Omissions in “alternative” and “radical” politics and knowledges 3. Connecting “theory”/”knowledge-making” and practice in food work 4. Food “crises” in relation to gender, race, neo-imperialism and the Anthropocene 5. Re-imaging human encounters with food from African feminist perspectives

Virtual Seminar 2:
In Search of the Perfect Curry in Two Contemporary South African Cook Books

29 June 2021

• Featuring: Prof Vasu Reddy (University of Pretoria)
• Prof Relebohile Moletsane (University of KwaZulu Natal)

Download the event poster here

This seminar is based on research that responds in descriptive, analytical and discursive ways about a persistent question that has concerned celebrity chefs, restauranteurs, cookbook authors; including everyday consumers of curry as well. Is there a perfect curry? If so, what is it? What are its attributes? What are the ingredients, processes and methods to create the perfect recipe? Does curry have a unique heritage and identity? If yes, where is it located and to whom does it belong? 

Virtual Seminar 1:
Corporate fast food advertising targeting children

25 May 2021

Featuring:
– Desiree Lewis (University of Western Cape)
– Lynn Mafofo (University of Western Cape)
– Sheetal Bhoola (University of KwaZulu Natal)
Read the event poster here

This seminar raises the way that a transnational corporate advertising industry, working in conjunction with the global food system, ruthlessly exploits children’s imaginative needs. By analysing advertising texts, it focuses on how persuasively global food marketing works. It also explores the abuse of the democratic principle of the “rights of the child” when advertisers manipulate children’s capacity to “choose” unhealthy fastfood.