A gentle reminder that the following Call for Papers are soliciting
abstracts for another month.
| CALL FOR PAPERS | We are compiling a special section for submission to
the trans-disciplinary journal Gastronomica on
the topic of microbes in/through food systems.
| TIMELINE | Abstracts (400-500 words) due July 1, 2024 for priority
consideration. Abstracts submitted thereafter will be considered on a
rolling basis. Selected full papers would be due December 15, 2024. If this
date is unfeasible but you're still interested in submitting something,
please get in touch with us to potentially make individual arrangements. We
would be pleased to discuss your ideas for submission in advance of the
deadline.
| FORMATS & EDITORIAL | We welcome original research articles as well as
theme-specific reviews, commentaries, and creative submissions. Guest
Editors include Maya Hey (Centre for the Social Study of Microbes,
University of Helsinki), and Sarah Elton (Toronto Metropolitan University &
University of Toronto). Contacts: maya.hey@helsinki.fi;
sarah.elton@utoronto.ca
https://www.socialmicrobes.org/current/call-for-papers-microbes-food-and-food
-systems/
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| SCOPE & FULL DESCRIPTION | Microbes, foods, and food systems.
Microbes are hailed both as a peril and a promise to food systems. In a
western context, microbes have been vilified as agents of disease and
decay, giving rise to regulatory, infrastructural, and colonial containment
strategies and rhetorics of hygiene which persist today. At the same time,
microbes offer appealing alternatives to extractive food systems, with
contemporary examples such as precision fermentation that bypass
macro-organisms like cows and chickens, or bokashi composters that convert
household food waste into soil nutrients without relying on agro-chemical
industries. Growing momentum in gut microbiome research also increasingly
connects health outcomes with biodiverse environments and food intake, such
that microbes mediate and are mediated by encounters across eater, eaten,
and eating contexts. Disparities across society also raise concerns about
how some people are (made to be) more vulnerable to microbial toxicities
due to physiological, historico-social, or geopolitical reasons. Further,
the purported promises of microbial hacks and innovations are kept
accessible only to narrow echelons of society, posing questions about
justice and equity of human-microbe futures. Microbes have been—and will
continue to be—in and around food systems and their attendant power
relations, which warrants special attention by multi- and
trans-disciplinary scholarship.
This themed section looks at where and how microbes tangle up with humans
in food systems. We seek submissions that explore the myriad of ways that
microorganisms are involved in the growing, harvesting, raising,
slaughtering, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, purchasing,
cooking, cleaning, and consumption of foodstuffs. Whether through
practices (e.g., fermentation, composting, using antibiotic-laced
animal/fish feed), products (e.g., probiotic supplements, raw milk
cheeses), institutions (e.g., provincial/federal abattoirs, biotech
companies like Perfect Day), or place-based interventions (e.g.,
post-Western “war on germs,” reverse osmosis technologies in Haiti’s
cholera epidemic), microbes are ripe for analysis. This list is
illustrative, not exhaustive, and we are open to other takes on microbial
happenings in food systems.
We welcome research that spans, but is not limited to, laboratories, soils,
fields, farms, kitchens, markets, waste facilities, and the move from one
space into another (e.g., lab to field, field to kitchen, kitchen to
intestine). We also invite different disciplinary vantage points (e.g.,
humanities, social science, agroecology, biotechnology, culinary praxis,
design, and beyond), and a variety of methodological approaches as well as
artistic contributions. We can print full color photography or other
imagery, publish long form essays, or even translations of relevant work.
Thus we seek empirical, applied work, theoretical, speculative work, as
well as arts-based explorations.
Deadline for submissions: we welcome abstracts (400-500 words) by 01 July
2024, with the expectation that selected full papers would be submitted by
15 December 2024. If this date is unfeasible but you're still interested in
submitting something, please get in touch with us to potentially make
individual arrangements. Please submit these directly to our emails at:
maya.hey@helsinki.fi and sarah.elton@utoronto.ca . We would be pleased to
discuss your ideas for submission in advance of the deadline.
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