| MODULE 1. FOOD, CULTURE AND HEALTH |
Eating as a social practice: feeding and/or nourishing? Debates on the limits of edibility, cultural logics and diversity. Culinary grammar, food system. The anthropology of food as a field of study. Food Studies and Food Studies Gender. Main theoretical and methodological contributions. Relativism, holism, diachronism, comparison and (in)Disciplinarity.
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MODULE 2. FOOD CONTROVERSIES: SUBJECTS, PRACTICES AND DISCOURSES
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Food on the political agenda: transitions, social change, migrations. Food as medicine. Nature and scope of nutritional interventions and issues for anthropology. The use of ethnography and issues for nutrition: from dense description to rapid ethnography. Narratives of food, diet and disease. Paradoxes, activisms and other debates. |
| MODULE 3. THE MEDICALISATION OF FOOD AND THE BODY |
Lipophobic societies, obesogenic societies. Processes of food normalisation/body standardisation. Intersections between body, food and gender. Anorexic eating: subjects, practices and discourses. From lipophobia to lipobophobia: the stigmatisation of the fat. Economia política de l'obesitat. Redefining "fat" identities: online activism. |
| MODULE 4. INEQUALITY, FOOD SECURITY AND PRECARIZATION |
Fam, food systems and food crises: theories, meanings and experiences. Food security, food sovereignty, food justice: debating the right to food/health. Institutionalisation and corporatisation of food aid. Food routes in contexts of precariousness: actors, spaces, strategies. Food insecurity and gender. Perceptions, risks and uncertainties around the food chain. |
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