...Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga This article examines the descent of human beings into human game (animal hunted for food and sport) and even further into a vermin being (pestiferous being in need of elimination). It goes beyond the realm of similitude, that is, the treatment of certain people like...

... with the capacity to produce value. In particular, I argue that massive quantities of unspoiled food and other discarded commercial goods with persistent use values constitute a kind of abject capital, the economic significance of which is precisely that it is removed from circulation. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s...

... contributor speaks of sight lines of possibility and peril, even as they struggle to inhabit a divided and ravaged landscape. For Paromita Vohra and Anjali Arondekar, andolan gardens grow into supply chains that may or may not create food for thought and struggle. Ayesha Kidwai's dream of a multilingual...

... of housing, transport, health, schooling, employment, environment, and food supply, it also created feelings of waste, loss, and loneliness. All the pieces draw inspiration from a range of urban projects such as the Hot City Collective in New York, the Workers’ Stories Project in Glasgow, the Black Lives...

...Ianna Hawkins Owen Abstract In response to the widely circulated asexual provocation “Why have sex when there is cake?” this essay explores the productive overlap between asexuality's nonsexual pleasures associated with food and feedism's sexual pleasures associated with eating. Building on a long...

...Micki McGee An analysis of media coverage concerning the physiques of three iconic African American figures—Oprah Winfrey and Barack and Michelle Obama—is taken as a point of departure for revisiting Sohnya Sayre's 1987 Social Text article “Glory Mongering: Food and the Agon of Excess...

... Huangpu River, and the 2013 purchase of Smithfield Foods, one of America’s biggest pork producers, by the Chinese conglomerate Shuanghui. To understand the movement between the representation of threat and the violent responses that flare up in its wake, one must pay attention not only to quantifiable...

... project about the relations that bodies and environments have to food in urban India, based on studying eating in a lower-­class neighborhood, the diagnosis and treatment of metabolic dis- orders in clinics and hospitals, and the commercialization of food through its marketing. This article draws...

... niches where many profound effects of global- ization can be accessed. Thus, in the Greek and wider European context, I examine food consumption, social aesthetics, disease imagery, and med- ical rationalities as diverse registers of and for viewing globalization. I...

... was not allowed into her upper-caste neighbors’ house because, its women told me, she was from a family and jati associ- 84 Sarah Pinto ated with thievery. I was forbidden from eating her food as part of my household’s maintenance of pollution-based social...

... practices that are threatening the food sovereignty of the Tzotzil community, the “Mother Seeds in Resistance” seed bank also challenges a long-­standing tradition of hegemonizing national narratives that persistently mobilize discourses about agrarian rights to promote the use of Mexico’s agricul...

... within the camp’s confines, the refugees have gathered an intimate knowledge of its spatial arrangements and day- ­to-­day operations — ­food, shelter, sanitation, medical care and facilities, and collective and individual encounters with their guards...

... expenditure. In capitalism, this expenditure takes the form of war, toxic waste, anxiety, money hoarding, or food waste (to name just a very few). But expenditure need not be destructive. Festivals, parties, concerts, and the like are forms of expenditure that forge new socialities and yield exuberant joy. 3...

... following an elusive paper trail trying to prove whether Stewart traded her shares of ImClone stock with insider knowledge that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not favorably review ImClone’s new cancer drug. With zeal the media has divulged that Martha Stewart, the paragon of American domestic...

.... Joined more recently by the food court and multiplex, the video arcade has long helped to establish the shopping mall as a preferred after-school destination. A dominant force in the civic arrangement of suburban life, the mall has joined the school as a principal locus for the socialization...

... and elderly, and food stamps for dependent, immigrant children. Following this initial immigrant removal, federal cash assistance programs, namely Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), will be drastically reduced and eventually eliminated for both...

... prison visiting and pen pal programs, rapid response systems for ICE raids, ride sharing, reentry resources, eviction defense, medical clinics, childcare collectives, food distribution, disaster response, and court support efforts. Work to create an alternative infrastructure based in left values...

... that there had always been something here and the installation did not unveil anything new. He used the metaphor of food to elaborate this point. He explained that sometimes, even though not always the healthiest thing to do, one must salt one’s food to really...

...) presents seemingly endless starving crowds: they are gath- ered along a road, awaiting presumably the arrival of food and greeting those who bring it.1 The second image (figure 2) shows an undernour- ished child attempting to nurse and idly playing...

... and traumatizing election in US history since 1877: the election of white sovereign entrepreneurial terrorist Donald Trump in 2017. The Food and Drug Act of 1906 also gave the federal government the right to seize and destroy all medicines that made false claims on their packaging or included now-controlled...