Once translated into images, food acquires a broader meaning. Food is no longer merely something to eat, but show, share and look at. The increasing amount of images pictures dishes on our social networks, associated with hashtags such as #foodporn, expresses this renewed social, communicative provocative function food. However, the exhibition these quite ambivalent when it comes establishing d...

In this paper we use a critically reflexive research approach to analyze our efforts to implement transformative learning in food systems education in a land grant university by applying scholarly tools to the teaching processes and its learning outcomes. As a team of learners across the educational hierarchy, we evaluate our efforts of creating transformational learning outcomes through facili...

The relationship of human societies to territory and natural resources is being drastically altered by a series of global agreements concerning trade, intellectual property, and the conservation and use of genetic resources. Through a characteristic style of collective appropriation of their tropical ecosystems, Maya societies have created local institutions for governing access to their common...

DOI 10.1215/016424721468308 © 2012 Duke University Press It has been twenty years since Kwame Anthony Appiah’s sharply critical essay, “Is the Postin Postmodernism the Postin Postcolonial?,” brought to our attention the deep complicities of the postcolonial intellectual with global capitalism’s management of cultural commodities out of Africa via the fetishism of the self as other.1 An unthinki...

My voice reveals the hidden power hidden within." A woman of Asian descent appears to be an entertainer, possibly a courtesan or geisha, wearing a pseudo-Chinese dress and hairdo; her hands are curled in front of her in an "Oriental-like" gesture as if she is dancing, and her head is tilted coyly with a cryptic smile (Figure 1). She gives a sexually suggestive expression and gaze but hesitates ...

This article demonstrates that the authoritarian populist strategy is most appealing when leaders create a sense of crisis and present themselves as having only solution. The underlines three performative methods how Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil offered simple answers for portrayed other political actors responsible ones to be removed. Firstly, nativism presents conservative view on politics should...

Café is one of the contemporary products that has become an arena lifestyle battles. Supported by a culture consumerism and commodity fetishism, then transformed into representation urban society. There are many phenomena support this thesis. Those who come to not only fulfill their basic needs (the need drink coffee), but more than that, which show others existence with all success they have a...