Support for Workshop Concerned with Current Trends in Foods and Food Movements in Postsocialist Settings

这一奖项授予Melissa L.Caldwell博士(加州大学圣克鲁斯分校)，为将与(伦敦大学)东方和非洲研究学院食品研究中心合作举办的国际讲习班提供支持。食品消费的道德问题，包括食品安全、消费者健康和宏观经济政策对全球食品系统的动态影响，对学者、政策制定者、农民、生产者和消费者来说都是至关重要的。通过聚焦于社会主义晚期和前社会主义社会的这些主题，本研讨会将提供新的背景，以考察市场价值观、道德价值观和其他影响新兴资本主义制度中食品流动的因素之间的相互作用。研讨会还将讨论政治制度、生产者和国际贸易制度之间的联系，并将研究全球监管制度以及更多以本地化为导向的食品流动对当地消费者的影响。这次研讨会首次汇集了人类学、社会学、地理学和环境研究领域的领先国际研究人员，分享关于前共产主义国家、东欧、前苏联和非洲以及以市场为导向的共产主义国家如中国、越南和古巴的道德食品流动和消费的研究。将审查的专题包括：通过不同的全球经济进程产生经济道德；粮食和农业作为抵抗和批评的形式；卫生和民间社会的模式；正规市场经济体系以外的供求关系；国家和国际食品安全政策；全球治理制度的后果；可持续发展和环境保护的模式。研讨会将讨论各种基于民族志的定性和定量领域数据。这次研讨会很重要，因为它将提出关于当代全球食品系统复杂性的研究结果，特别关注特定治理形式下国家、工业和国际贸易之间的关系，以及它们对世界各地公民消费者的影响。研讨会还支持国际研究合作以及对初级研究人员和研究生的指导。

This award to Dr. Melissa L. Caldwell (University of California, Santa Cruz) provides support for the international workshop to be held in collaboration with the Food Studies Centre of the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). Issues of ethical food consumption, including food safety, consumer health, and the dynamics of macroeconomic policy effects on global food systems, are critically important for scholars, policy makers, farmers, producers, and consumers. By focusing on these topics in late socialist and formerly socialist societies, this workshop will provide new contexts for examining the interplay among market values, moral values, and other factors influencing food movements in emerging capitalist systems. The workshop also will consider the connections among political regimes, producers, and international trade regimes, and it will examine the effects of global regulatory regimes as well as more locally oriented food movements on local consumers.This workshop brings together, for the first time, leading international researchers in anthropology, sociology, geography, and environmental studies to share research on ethical food movements and consumption across a diverse cross-section of previously communist countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Africa, and market-oriented communist states such as China, Vietnam, and Cuba. Topics to be examined include: production of economic moralities through different economic global processes; food and farming as forms of resistance and critiques; models of health and civil society; supply and demand relationships outside formal market economy systems; national and international food safety policies; consequences of global governance systems; and models of sustainable development and environmentalism. A variety of ethnographically based qualitative and quantitative field data will be discussed at the workshop.This workshop is important because it will present research findings on the complexities of the contemporary global food system, with special attention to relationships between state, industry, and international trade within specific forms of governance, and their impact on citizen-consumers throughout the world. The workshop also supports international research collaboration and the mentoring of junior researchers and graduate students.