Thinking Through Food in South Africa: Identities, Embodiment and Representation

Authors

Desiree Lewis (ed)
Vasu Reddy (ed)
Relebohile Moletsane (ed)
Heather A. Thuynsma (ed)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35293/esi.46

Keywords:

Critical Food Studies, Food History, Food Heritage, Identity, Embodiment, Representation, identity

Synopsis

When we sit at individual or communal tables, we consider each other and our senses before taking a single bite. We think about what brought us to the table, who we are eating with, what meal will be served and possibly even where the food is from. South Africa is home to diverse cultures, histories, food heritages, culinary landscapes, food-growing and food-buying environments that collectively spice the food eaten and enjoyed by individuals and groups in the country. Food is sustenance, an access point, a historical and cultural marker and so much more. Thinking Through Food in South Africa: Identities, Embodiment and Representation explores the ways in which individuals define themselves and their role in society through food. This includes its role in school-based historical curriculum, alternative food networks, community-supported agriculture, intergenerational rituals and exchanges and its influence on economics, politics, migration and social cohesion. More than a study of ingredients, this book holds and guides a multi-layered conversation about food as home, practice and community.

Chapters

  • Acknowledgements
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  • Table of Contents
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  • Foreword
    Desiree Lewis, Vasu Reddy, Relebohile Moletsane, Heather Thuynsma
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  • Chapter 1
    Towards a New Palate: Thinking Through Food in South Africa
    Desiree Lewis, Vasu Reddy, Relebohile Moletsane, Heather Thuynsma
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  • Part 1
    From Table to Thought: Savouring Food Studies through the Social Sciences and Humanities
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  • Chapter 2
    Does Food in History Matter? Food in the South African History Curriculum
    Nomkhosi Mhlanga
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  • Chapter 3
    Death of a Market: Social Grant Pay Points and their Effect on Food Inequality, Farmer Opportunities and Communities in KwaZulu-Natal
    Nkululeko Shabalala
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  • Chapter 4
    Capital and Paternalism in Agriculture: The Case of Malapeng Citrus Farm
    Gabe Vermeulen
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  • Chapter 5
    Marginal Urban Farming in Avondale, Harare: A Political Ecology Perspective
    Michelle Masuku
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  • Chapter 6
    Participation and Land Access of Urban Smallholder Farmers: Implications for Food Production
    Nthabeleng Tamako, Joyce Chitja
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  • Part 2
    Food, Subjectivities, Identities
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  • Chapter 7
    Symbolic Meaning-Making in Traditional Wedding Foods among the AmaZulu in KwaZulu-Natal
    Balungile Zondi
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  • Chapter 8
    Thinking through Food in South Africa: Identity-making, Embodiment and Representation
    Ayanda Tshazi
    PDF
  • Chapter 9
    Recipes as Alternative Archives – A South African Perspective
    Rachel Botes
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  • Chapter 10
    Pakkies aan Boetie: Christian Afrikaner Women Remembering Conscription in South Africa between 1980 and 1990
    Dominique Wnuczek-Lobaczewski
    PDF
  • Chapter 11
    Goeie Grond: A Visual Journal on the Elandskloof Garden Project
    Nina du Preez, Christi Bleeker
    PDF
  • Chapter 12
    On Kitchens and Cookbooks
    Rory Bester, Karen Dudley
    PDF
  • Chapter 13
    Kitchens, Archives and Cookbooks
    Rory Bester, Shireen Abrahams, Limpho Makapela, Amber Poggenpoel
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  • Part 3
    Representing and Imagining Food
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  • Chapter 14
    Halaal Food Positioning Practices in Haram Dominant Foodscapes in Cape Town
    Ammaarah Seboa
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  • Chapter 15
    “Eating the Other” at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park and Resort
    Ani Steele
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  • Chapter 16
    Mass and Social Media, Food and Navigating “Being Black and Middle Class” in South Africa
    Pamela Gysman
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  • Chapter 17
    Class Act: Gay Culinary Adventures in Pietermaritzburg
    Brian Sibeko
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  • Chapter 18
    Kitchen Confessions: A Photo Essay
    Marié-Heleen Coetzee, Nicola Haskins, Priyanka Bandu, Nikita Dyers, Lebogang Lebethe, Dineo Mapoma, Siyabonga Radebe
    PDF
  • Chapter 19
    A Gelukksdal Funeral
    Limpho Makapela
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  • List of Contributors
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  • Index
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Published

9 December 2024

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Co-publisher's ISBN-13 (24)

978-1-0370-2558-7