Featured Journal Issues
- Gastronomica, Aug 2020: Food in the Time of COVID-19 The Editorial Collective’s response to the pandemic’s impact was rapid but also cognizant of its limitations. Our decision on March 19, 2020, to produce this special issue would give us less than two months to request submissions and then to collect, read, edit, and submit the volume to our publisher. We issued a call for papers—or more properly, dispatches from the field—with rolling deadlines of April 10 and April 25.
- Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Dec. 2021: More than a Disaster: Creativity in Growing, Distributing, and Accessing Food During COVID‐19 Welcome to our special issue, More than a Disaster: Creativity in Growing, Distributing, and Accessing Food During COVID-19. At the time this is being published, the world is just a few weeks shy of the two-year mark from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and fighting the new Omicron variant. Anthropological work in the field of disaster studies has demonstrated that crises can be great “revealers” of underlying structural problems, especially inequality and socioeconomic dynamics (Hoffman and Oliver-Smith 2002) affecting communities.
Featured Articles on Food & COVID-19
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- "Brief Research Commentary: The US Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movement’s Impact on Understandings of COVID‐19 in Indian Country." Culture, Agriculture, Food and the Environment, 2021-11-29 (Anthrosource) This research commentary provides an overview of contemporary anthropological research regarding the US Indigenous food sovereignty movement and demonstrates how it informs the impacts of COVID-19 on Indian Country.
- "Covid-19, Workday Lunch and the French Labor Code." Food & Foodways 29, no. 3 (2021): 299-308. (Taylor & Francis) In February 2021, the French government relaxed the Labor Code and authorized workday lunches in the office and on the shop floor to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in dedicated eating places (canteens, lunch rooms, refectories).
- "Reflection: Snatched Commensality: To Eat or Not to Eat Together in times of Covid-19 in France." Food & Foodways 29, no. 2 (2021): 204-12. (Taylor & Francis) During the Covid-19 pandemic, the French Government imposed a strict lockdown from March 17th to May 11th 2020. These extraordinary times challenged the social norm of commensality, a practice that is particularly strong and engrained in France. How has lockdown impacted meal-sharing habits? How have the rules and norms of commensality withstood the weakening of social bonds caused by lockdown?
- "Reflection: An Update on China's Wild Meat Consumption since COVID-19." Food & Foodways 29, no. 2 (2021): 213-22. (Taylor & Francis) Wildlife consumption in China has been widely condemned by academics and the public since COVID-19 was determined to have a zoonotic source by the World Health Organization. This reflection piece provides an up-to-date summary of wild meat consumption in China since COVID-19.
