[ecrea] Special Issue: E-Politics of Food – from Online Campaigning to ‘Food Porn’

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue: E-Politics of Food – from Online Campaigning to ‘Food Porn’





SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 28 February 2015

PUBLICATION: International Journal of E-Politics



OBJECTIVE OF THE THEMED ISSUE:

This special issue invites submissions on the E-Politics of Food from 
online campaigning to the aesthetics of food porn. Food retains a 
centrality in our daily lives; its production, consumption, manufacture 
and processing is enmeshed with complex issues of sustainability, 
biodiversity, fair trade, carbon footprint, taboos, ecological and 
ethical concerns. Food remains controversial both in our imagination of 
our identities and in constructing others. In an age of austerity or 
prosperity, food can reflect our changing values and be symbolic of our 
orientation towards our immediate and distant worlds.  As we create new 
online rituals of imaging food and archiving daily memories, food 
assumes a renewed focus in our digital culture. Beyond the aesthetic, we 
want to know why food can become the focal point of conflict and in the 
process become politicized. The politicization of food issues has wide 
social, economic and cultural significance in that it can draw attention 
to policy failures, perceived threats to a society or existing practices 
that serve to define a cultural identity. What has changed is the 
proliferation of online platforms that allow more organisations and 
individuals to engage with the politics of food; enabling a wider 
dissemination of these views; and the potential for an expansion of 
conflict nationally and transnationally. We welcome theoretical or 
empirical papers about online food fights. The International Journal of 
E-Politics is interdisciplinary so we welcome any disciplinary, 
theoretical or methodological approach. We also welcome papers that 
explore the issues at any level i.e. individual or social, national or 
transnational.



SUGGESTED TOPICS:

We are interested in topics that include (but are not limited to) the 
following:

§  Online scares, controversies or scandals about food e.g. over 
breaches in cultural taboos, fraud, contamination, etc.

§  E-health campaigns e.g. plastic wrappings, or salt/sugar content of 
food and drinks

§  Counter-campaigns e.g. use of viral campaigns by fast food or drinks 
industry to fight back against negative publicity

§  Using food to raise awareness of social inequalities, injustices or 
conflict e.g. Conflict Kitchen in Philadelphia, biodiversity and food 
consumption

§  Online debates about the loss or sale of large tranches of 
farmland/food production in Africa, Asia and South America

§  Conflict over food inequality or food insecurity in a digital age

§  Avoiding or minimising conflict through predictive analytics and big 
data e.g. in health inspection protocols, tracking food health scares, 
predicting famine, etc

§  Food in an age of austerity e.g. blogging about cheap food and 
conflict over food banks

§  Imaging food in our daily lives



SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Researchers from any field of enquiry that deals with the online 
politics of food broadly defined are invited to submit papers for this 
themed issue. All submissions are due by February 28, 2014.

All queries to

Anita Howarth (anita.howarth /at/ brunel.ac.uk)

Yasmin Ibrahim (y.ibrahim /at/ qmul.ac.uk)



Full papers to be submitted electronically,

http://www.igi-global.com/submission/manuscripts/


Editors-in-Chief:

Celia Romm Livermore, School of Business Administration, Wayne State 
University, Detroit, USA

Yasmin Ibrahim, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, 
University of London.

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of E-Politics is published by IGI Global 
(formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science 
Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information 
Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the 
publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.



Celia Romm Livermore (PhD)
Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Dr. Yasmin Ibrahim)
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
School of Business Administration
Wayne State University - Detroit, MI, 48202, USA
IJEP site: www.igi-global.com/IJEP
http://WorldITproject.com



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