Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Organizer
Conveners: Alexander Nützenadel (University of Cologne/NIAS), Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck College, London)
Venue
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Wassenaar)
Location
Wassenaar
Country
Netherlands
From - Until
19.05.2005 - 21.05.2005
Website
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/histsem/nuetzenadel/forschung_tagung.htm
By
Nützenadel, Alexander

Food and globalization are inseparable. Food markets were the first to become globally integrated, linking distant areas and cultures of the world. In no other area have the interactions between global exchange and local cultural practices been as discernable as in changing food cultures. Food consumption plays a crucial role for the construction of local and national identities and the changing self-understanding of social groups, migrants and ethnic communities. Food consumption and distribution have been major arenas of political contention and social protest, ranging from problems of food entitlements and social citizenship to distributional conflicts between producers and consumers, and to debates about ‘free trade’ and ‘fair trade’ in a globalized economy. Yet, in much of the literature on ‘globalization’ food has traditionally occupied a marginal role, subordinate to the dominant subjects of financial markets, migration, communication and transnational political cooperation.

Recent research in history, anthropology, sociology and neighbouring disciplines has now been moving food back to the centre of imperial, transnational and global relations and political economy. Much of this research has cut across conventional disciplines, geographic areas, and past and present. This workshop is an opportunity to bring together experts coming to the subject of food and globalization from different directions and backgrounds, to discuss new approaches and insights in neighbouring disciplines, and to connect discussions of cultural, political, and economic processes at work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Programm

Thursday 19 May

6 pm Keynote: Sidney Mintz (Baltimore), Food, Energy and Culture

Friday 20 May

9.15 – 10.30 am:
1. Opening Panel: Food and Globalisation
Chair: Frank Trentmann (London)

Penny van Esterik (North York), Conceptual Tools for the Study of Food and Globalization

Raymond Grew (Ann Arbor), Food for Global History

11 am – 1 pm:
2. Panel: Local Cultures and Transnational Spaces
Chair: Sidney Mintz (Baltimore)

Jack Goody (Cambridge/UK), Consumption, Globalisation and Power

Maren Möhring (Köln), Ethnic Cuisine. Food, Migration and Consumption in West Germany

Jonathan Morris (Hatfield), The Cappuccino Conquests – Writing a Beverage Biography

Discussant: Anneke van Otterloo (Amsterdam)

2 – 4 pm:
3. Panel: Food and Empire
Chair: Jack Goody (Cambridge/UK)

Richard Wilk (Indiana), A Taste of Home: The Cultural and Economic Significance of European Food Exports to the Colonies

Paul H. Kratoska (Singapore), The Southeast Asian Rice Trade and Its Ramifications, 1850–1950

Victoria de Grazia (New York), The American Market Empire: Reflections on its Alimentary Power

Katarzyna Cwiertka (Leiden), Imperialism and the Global Market: The Canning Industry of Imperial Japan

Discussant: Sidney Mintz (Baltimore)

4.30 – 6.00 pm:
4. Panel: Food Chains and Global Markets
Chair: Victoria De Grazia (New York)

Steven Topik (Irvine), Coffee’s Janus Faces

Marina Moskowitz (Glasgow), ‘Your seeds are capital’: The Development of Market Gardening in Nineteenth–Century America

Peter Jackson (Sheffield), The Transnational Spaces of Contemporary Commodity Culture

Discussant: Thera Wijsenbeek (Leiden)

Saturday 21 May
9 – 10.30 am:
5. Panel: Famines and Food Entitlements
Chair: Alexander Nützenadel

Eric Vanhaute (Ghent/Wassenaar), Famines and peasantries. An historical and contemporary evaluation of the 'last' European hunger crisis in 1845–1847

Cormac O’Grada (Dublin), Twentieth–century Famines in Historical Perspective

Dana Simmons (Riverside/Berlin), “The Diet of War”: Mass Hunger and Science in the Twentieth Century

Discussant: Hans Bass (Bremen)

11.30 – 11.45 Coffee break

11.45 – 12.15:
6. Panel: Food and Global Governance
Chair: Penny van Esterik (North York)

Alexander Nützenadel (Cologne/Wassenaar), A ‘Green International’? Food Markets and Transnational Politics 1880–1920

Frank Trentmann (London), The Problem of Food Security and Visions of Social and Global Order, Europe, c. 1918–1950

Christian Gerlach (Pittsburgh), Transnational agribusiness in the UN system: FAO’s Industry–Cooperative Programme and the World Food Crisis in the 1970s

Discussant: Sunil Amrith (Cambridge/UK)

12.15 am: 7. Concluding discussion
Chair: Richard Wilk (Indiana)

Sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Cultures of Consumption research programme (ESRC-AHRB)

Contact (announcement)

Alexander Nützenadel
mailto:alexander.nuetzenadel@uni-koeln.de

http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/histsem/nuetzenadel/forschung_tagung.htm
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