Forwarded from the consumer-studies list.  Maybe some Histarchers will be
inspired to submit something.
 
John McCarthy
 
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Subject:    CFP: The Culture of Food
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Date:       10/23/98 8:07 AM
 
Call for Papers:
 
Body & Society:  Special Issue: The Culture of Food
Editors: Bob Ashley, Joanne Hollows, Steve Jones & Ben Taylor,
Nottingham Trent University.
 
We have been invited by the editors of Body & Society to edit a special
edition of the journal on the culture of food. 
 
For this special edition on food and culture, we would particularly
welcome contributions which take an interdisciplinary approach to the
complex relations between the institutions, industries, forms and
practices which shape food cultures. Although we welcome articles which
offer new ways of theorizing questions about food, we also welcome
contributions which offer analyses of food in specific historical,
cultural and social contexts, past and present. We also see analyses of
the relations between the local, the national and the global as a
central concern. While there has been a growing literature on food in
disciplines such as anthropology and sociology, we have a special
interest in articles which aim to open up the study of food in academic
fields - for example, media and cultural studies - where food has been a
marginal interest. Furthermore, while there has been an understandable
fascination with 'exotic' and 'transgressive' food practices, we are
eager to include articles which deal with the more 'mundane' and
'everyday'.
 
Authors should send the manuscript along with an abstract of 100-150
words as either an e-mail attachment and/or on disk (our preferred
format is Microsoft Word for Windows) to the address below. These should
be accompanied by 3 hard copies.
 
 
The deadline for submissions is 15 March 1999. 
 
For notes for contributors to Body and Society, please contact: 
Neal Curtis, 
Theory, Culture and Society Centre
Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane
Nottingham
NG11 8NS
U.K.
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For further information about the special issue, please contact:
Joanne Hollows, 
Department of English & Media, 
Nottingham Trent University, 
Clifton Lane, 
Nottingham, 
NG11 8NS, 
U.K. 
Tel: 0115 9418418 x3033
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