Publication | Special Issue

Is Europe skilling for sustainable food?

The double issue of kritisk etnografi – Swedish Journal of Anthropology, has a question: Is Europe skilling for sustainable food? The two guest editors, Professor Maris Boyd Gillette from the University of Gothenburg and Professor Cristina Grasseni from Leiden University, have convened an esteemed group of scholars who present four articles in which European food provision is theorised with the help of sustainability as an analytical tool: Nicolas Loodts’ article on anticipation at the heart of sustainability; Maris Boyd Gillette, Milena Arias Schreiber and Nathan Siegrist’s research on Sweden’s good fishers; Maria Vasile’s study of food surplus redistribution, non-profit organisations and neoliberalism in Turin, Italy; and Celia Plender’s article on collaboration, collectivity, and egalitarianism in food cooperatives. In addition to these research articles, it should be mentioned that Cristina Grasseni is also leading the Food Citizens? – a project which has inspired the thematic focus of the issue. A report on the preliminary findings and reflections of the project itself has been included to give more “food for thought”, as it were, to the readers.

Author: Maris Boyd Gillette and Cristina Grasseni
Date: 01 May 2022
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