Verge Journal sponsored panel seeks a few more panelists. Please find the panel abstract below and reach out for any help with applying.
Write to: Ishita Dey (
ishita@sau.int) or Sarbani Sharma (
sarbani.sharma@apu.edu.in).
We will need a paper title, 250-word abstract, and 2-page CV by 1 August 2022.
Prospective panelists will be informed by 5 August 2022 and the final submission of the panel proposal to AAS 2023 will need to be completed by 9 August 2022.
Panel Title: Food in/of ConflictScarcity, circulation, and access to food have often been the cornerstone
of peace, forging new alliances or perpetuating the conflict by
imperialist regimes across Asias for centuries. Concerns about food
security have festered ecologies of war and violence, forcing
communities across Global Asias to adapt, innovate and mitigate through
protracted periods of conflict and violence. Building upon Asia as a
method and recognizing multiplicities of Global Asias, we propose to
develop a convergence between food and conflict studies to meditate on
questions of place and space-making practices, health and nutrition,
food-in-aid programs, politics of identities, structural violence that
inform problems of access and in a conflict zone, etc.
In this panel, we want to explore the following but are not limited to
questions: How do we situate the role of food and food security in
understanding ethnic conflicts and wars in Asia(s)? What can we learn
about transnational Asias from experiences of food in conflict situations
within a neoliberal economy? Has conflict produced new circuits of food
logistics and global supply chain? How has conflict produced new food
and food habits with the curb in rations and embargo? How has food
been used to rebuild lives in situations of protracted conflicts, such as
camps and transit centers?
We invite scholars across disciplines (Anthropology, History, Sociology,
and associated fields) to interrogate how food has been an embodied
experience of necessity, survival, and community building from various
contexts covering ethnic violence, imperialist propaganda, interstate
violence, and civil war, across Asian geographies.
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Sarbani Sharma
Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
sarbanisharma@gmail.com------------------------------