How might otherwise food pedagogies endure hyper sanitization and fear of contamination in viral times?
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How might otherwise food pedagogies endure hyper sanitization and fear of contamination in viral times? Thinking with Alexis Shotwell (2016), archiving the Colloquium collective food experience relies on “memory as a relational and situated process through which we collectively determine the significance of the past for the present as a form of forward-looking responsibility” (p. 48).
Remembering the Colloquium collective food experience in the midst of the global pandemic and biopolitical responses of enforced isolation and hygiene, make certain memories unimaginable; memories of sharing food with unsanitized hands, maskless tasting and smelling, sitting together in close proximity, meeting the farmer and chef whose labour we savoured in each meal.
How might otherwise food pedagogies endure physical distancing, hyper sanitization and fear of contamination? How might we continue to notice the convivial co-dependencies that weave together food-land-beings relations amid isolation? How might we attune to the ways food and eating blur borders and transgress boundaries in viral times?
References
Shotwell, A. (2016). Against purity: Living ethically in compromised times. University of Minnesota Press.