Guest editors’ introduction : special Issue on critical food studies in South Africa : feminist perspectives

Abstract

Currently, our social, cultural, and existential experiences are being very directly influenced by our relationships to food. The health, economic, social, and psychological consequences of pathogens originating in industrial agriculture are glaringly manifested around the world, while poverty, inequalities, vulnerabilities, social injustices and hegemonic knowledge are being magnified by the impact of COVID-19. Innovative thought and practices around food therefore seem to be more relevant than ever before. Understanding the connections between corporate food systems and the Anthropocene, or unravelling the conviviality and humane values underlying many indigenous or localised food events and discourses, can generate revolutionary understandings of assemblages among the human, the social, and the non-human.