Elandskloof CRITICAL Food

A short film produced on the
Elandskloof project
(second phase).

Panel Discussions

Epidemic shocks and food cultures in the new millennium

27 May 2020

• Psyche Williams-Forson
• Mariam Mayet
• Carla Tsampiras

In the new millennium, global capitalism, racism, heteropatriarchy and xenophobia powerfully shape “disease” and “health”, as well as food practices and discourses. In this panel discussion, three critical thinkers reflect on connections between discourse and practices around food and health epidemics with the aim of opening up public debate.

International Symposium on Food Studies

The Meanings of Cooking in public life

23 July 2016

• Angelo Fick

The Meanings of Cooking in public life (visual presentation). International Symposium on Food Studies. Held at University of Pretoria.

Drama students presentation at UP

23 July 2016

• University of Pretoria Drama Students

Drama Presentation. International Symposium on Food Studies. Held at University of Pretoria.

Food, pleasure and poison in Cape Town, a response to World Food Day

19th October 2019

• Zayaan Khan
• Ru Furusa
• Haidee Swanby
• Angelo Fick
• Desiree Lewis

If you were unable to join us on the 19th October 2019 at the Magnet Theatre in Cape Town, you can watch the panel discussion below.

Practicing global eco-feminism

31 July 2017

• Donna Andrews
• Kashmira Banee

How can we move away from extraction and towards manifesting eco-conscious politics? Two eco-feminists, one from South Africa, the other Mauritius, share a chat under a tree, about Marx, feminism and life on the planet. Excerpt from the Laura Flanders Show, 31 July 2017.

Donna Andrews – The Futures of Food Panel Discussion

2017

• Donna Andrews

Donna Andrews, a feminist intellectual activist working with the Food Politics and Cultures Team

Professor Desiree Lewis, who heads up the Food Politics and Cultures Project explains the role of humanities research in food issues

• Desiree Lewis

Transdisciplinary research is key to understanding the complex dynamics of food insecurity, nutrition and hunger. Researchers are exploring human relationships to food, the power dynamics around food production and access and the meanings that food acquires in particular cultural and social contexts.

Virtual Seminar 4:
Embracing Contemporarity

29 September 2021

• Patricia McFadden

Women’s and Gender Studies Department and South African Association of Gender Studies presents a discussion on the context of the so-called “decolonial turn” and the frequently mechanical embrace of “political correctness”, what are the legacies and possibilities for radical feminist imagining. Themes explored include:

• Herstories, Legacies and Political shifts in feminism
• Crafting new language and feminist imaginaries to respond to contemporary challenges
• Resisting ecocide – living an ecofeminist vegan life

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

27 July 2021

• Patricia Mcfadden
• Yvette Abrahams
• Ruth Nyambura
• Mercia Andrews

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

25 May 2021

• Vasu Reddy
• Relebohile Moletsane

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.

Virtual Seminar 1:
Corporate fast food advertising targeting children

29 June 2021

• Desiree Lewis
  Lynn Mafofo
• Sheetal Bhoola

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.