Overview

In a world where privatization and capitalism dominate the global economy, the essays in this book ask how to make socially responsive communication, design, and art that counters the role of the food industry as a machine of consumption. Food Democracy brings together contributions from leading international scholars and activists, critical case studies of emancipatory food practices, and reflections on possible models for responsive communication, design, and art. A section of visual communication works, creative writings, and accounts of participatory art for social and environmental change, which were curated by the Memefest Festival of Socially Responsive Communication and Art on the theme of “Food Democracy,” are also included here. The beautifully designed book also includes a unique and delicious compilation of socially engaged recipes by the academic and activist community. Aiming not just to advance scholarship, but to push ahead real change in the world, Food Democracy is essential reading for scholars and citizens alike.

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Author:   Oliver Vodeb (RMIT University)
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.075kg
ISBN:  

9781783207961

ISBN 10:   1783207965
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   15 December 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Hungry for Change + Thirsty for Life: Socially Responsive Communication, Design and Art Kitchen and its Dishes Oliver Vodeb   Mean Cuisine: Being a Polemical Discussion of Food in Excess of Necessity, its Uses and Abuses Darren Tofts   The Global eat Autocracy: An Issue of Social Injustice: Cartelization of the Global Meat Industry  Cirila Toplak   A Shortage of Democracy, Not of Food and Water: Trends Shaping Today's Food Industry Nikola Janović Kolenc   Making Time: Food Preservation and Ontological Design Abby Mellick Lopes, Tessa Zettel   Everything Has a Story: Decolonization, First Nations Sovereignity, and the Seventh Pillar of Food Sovereignty in the Australian Context Sam Burch   Hungry: Self-Employment on Street Food Markets and the Political Dimension of Consumption Aida Baghernejad   Marti Guixé's Food Designing: A Critique of Consumerism Katherine Moline   Somewhere over the Rainbow: Cooking a Slovenian Path to a 'Better' Future Tanja Kamin, Andreja Vezovnik, Pavlina Japelj   $$TM - The Sociosoma Renfah   Urban Agriculture in Havana Everything Fresh Including Design Claudio Sotolongo   Food for Thought Visual Practice as Activist Research George Petelin   Geographies of Hope The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination   What Lies Outside the Cavern Eugenio Tisselli   Trisikaideka | 13 | UMAMI Veeranganakumari Solanki   The Hidden Sacrifice Mariano Mussi   Designed Pleasure How Advertising Is Selling Food as Drugs Oliver Vodeb   Pleasure Praxis Oliver Vodeb   Food Democracy - Friendly Competition 2013 - Visual Communication Practice Curated by Oliver Vodeb   Eat for Democracy Miha Mazzini, Marko Plahuta   Edible Illusions Ashlea Gleeson, Jack Loel   Merry Kurban Bayrami and Happy New Year Rodolfo Medina Flores, Jakub Fišer   Seeds of Hope/Destruction Mohammad Naser   What Are You Really Eating? Jessica Nuzum   Michael Pollan’s Food Rules Marija Jaćimović, Benoit Detalle   Orto Diffuso Mariella Bussolati   The DIY High Fructose Corn Syrup Kit Maya Weinstein   Consciencia Sandra Rojas   What Do We Know about the Andean Quinoa Industry? Lucy Datyner   Happy Cow Kate Simpson   Who do You Feed with the Food You Eat? Maria Isabel Isaza Echeverry   Migrants in Europe Marko Damiš, Zdravko Papič (mentor and friend)   Untitled Stephan Gross   El Futuro se construye en el Campo Andres Rodriguez   Land Grab – The Game Katherine Jauczius   Guerilla Torches Dylan Leak   The Perfect Tomato Hayley Smith   Just a Little Money Involved Sybille Neumeyer   Pick Me Zayra Dolores   Food Democracy Liam Matthews   The Patch Oscar Waugh   Facing (orig. Im Angesicht) Julia Unkel   Engineered Corn Khaula Al Ameri   The Food Trade Apparatus (FTA) Thomas Roohan   Info(od)graphics Scott Burns   Meet & Two Veg Sophie Van Der Drift   How Much Is Enough? Eugenia Demeglio, Alberto Novello   Los Ojos de las Milpa (The Eyes of Milpa) Eugenio Tisselli (Et All)   Seed Matter Christine Matter   Conflict in the Kitchen: Dawn Weleski and Jon Rubin Oliver Vodeb   Living Out a Situation: The Memefest Food Democracy Brisbane Sessions, Visual Essay Oliver Vodeb   Eat Me - Recipes Various

Reviews

In this compelling collection, Memefest contributors remind us why food lies at the heart of contemporary political struggle. The single most damning truth about contemporary global society is that people continue to starve on a planet that produces enough food to nourish its entire population. This tragedy results from the use of food as a medium of control and a source of profit. The essays in this collection provide a crucial source for developing the tools and practices to support sustainable democracy in a time of global instability. Now more than ever we need the Memefest organization's prescient blend of theory and practice, aesthetics and politics. --Mark Andrejevic, Monash University, Pomona College What can tactical sustenance be in a world where hunger is a part and parcel of our current strategic market systems and governance that function to maintain 'food insecurity' on a global scale. Food Democracy is a direct response to navigating this Meat-Market-State by focusing on community research initiatives and artist practices of avant-gardening and beyond that can help us re-configure how our food is designed, how our food is sold, and who has access to food. This book is not just about what the problems are - but what can we do about it. --Ricardo Dominguez, Electronic Disturbance Theater This extraordinary new book challenges us to reclaim the role of design and public communication in imagining a democratic future of food. By recognizing that representation, as well as production, distribution and consumption, is a key element in the way the global food system works, this book shows that design is crucial to determine how we think about food. As an answer to this, Oliver Vodeb has curated an inspiring collection of examples of alternative food design bringing together activists, cultural producers and academics and in the process has redefined what food design may mean. --Ilaria Vanni, University of Technology Sydney The most effective step you can take to save the world, and yourself, is to change the way you eat. The food industry is responsible for more health problems, environmental damage, and social strife than any other. By choosing what to put in our mouths, we can heal ourselves, save the topsoil, feed the hungry, and overturn neoliberalism. Food Democracy shows the many easy, powerful, and delicious ways to achieve a sustainable future. We are what you eat. --Douglas Rushkoff, author, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

Author Information

Oliver Vodeb is a researcher and lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology and the founder, principal curator, and editor of the Memefest Festival of Socially Responsive Communication and Art.

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