CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue: E-Politics of Food from Online
Campaigning to Food Porn
ALL QUERIES TO: Guest editor: Anita Howarth
[email protected] Journal editor: Yasmin Ibrahim
[email protected]
SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 28 February 2015 PUBLICATION: International
Journal of E-Politics
OBJECTIVE OF THE THEMED ISSUE: This special issue invites
submissions on the E-Politics of Food from online campaigning to
the aesthetics of food porn. Food retains a centrality in our daily
lives; its production, consumption, manufacture and processing is
enmeshed with complex issues of sustainability, biodiversity, fair
trade, carbon footprint, taboos, ecological and ethical concerns.
Food remains controversial both in our imagination of our
identities and in constructing others. In an age of austerity or
prosperity, food can reflect our changing values and be symbolic of
our orientation towards our immediate and distant worlds. As we
create new online rituals of imaging food and archiving daily
memories, food assumes a renewed focus in our digital culture.
Beyond the aesthetic, we want to know why food can become the focal
point of conflict and in the process become politicized. The
politicization of food issues has wide social, economic and
cultural significance in that it can draw attention to policy
failures, perceived threats to a society or existing practices that
serve to define a cultural identity. What has changed is the
proliferation of online platforms that allow more organisations and
individuals to engage with the politics of food; enabling a wider
dissemination of these views; and the potential for an expansion of
conflict nationally and transnationally. We welcome theoretical or
empirical papers about online food fights. The International
Journal of E-Politics is interdisciplinary so we welcome any
disciplinary, theoretical or methodological approach. We also
welcome papers that explore the issues at any level i.e. individual
or social, national or transnational.
SUGGESTED TOPICS: We are interested in topics that include (but
are not limited to) the following: Online scares, controversies or
scandals about food e.g. over breaches in
cultural taboos, fraud, contamination, etc. E-health campaigns
e.g. plastic wrappings, or salt/sugar content of food and drinks
Counter-campaigns e.g. use of viral campaigns by fast food or
drinks industry to fight back against negative publicity Using food
to raise awareness of social inequalities, injustices or conflict
e.g. Conflict Kitchen in Philadelphia, biodiversity and food
consumption Online debates about the loss or sale of large tranches
of farmland/food production in Africa, Asia and South America
Conflict over food inequality or food insecurity in a digital age
Avoiding or minimising conflict through predictive analytics and
big data e.g. in health inspection protocols, tracking food health
scares, predicting famine, etc Food in an age of austerity e.g.
blogging about cheap food and conflict over food banks Imaging food
in our daily lives
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Researchers from any field of enquiry that
deals with the online politics of food broadly defined are invited
to submit papers for this themed issue. All submissions are due by
February 28, 2014.
Full papers to be submitted electronically,
http://www.igi-global.com/submission/manuscripts/
Editors-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore, School of Business
Administration, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA Yasmin
Ibrahim, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University
of London.
