Emplacing Food: Researching Meanings, Relationalities and Space

Minoia, Paola

This open access book offers an elaboration on foodways as both a geographical concept and an area of study that recognizes local food systems as essential to social justice and long-term sustainability. Approaching food through the lens of foodways provides an alternative to classical scholarship on food security, which often focuses on poverty in order to propose new globalized solutions. Instead, this perspective directs research toward the preservation of cultural and biological diversity, the protection of land rights, and the promotion of social justice.

With a specific focus on the MENA region, contributors to this edited collection engage with reflexive and collaborative methodologies, including participatory visual methods, storytelling, radical learning, land-based and socially rooted knowledges, embodied practices, visceral methods, and community mapping. Such approaches can help negotiate outsider–insider tensions while co-producing knowledge that is accountable to communities and relevant to wider societal debates.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2026-08-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783032281258

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Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 154