[Commlist] CFP: Mediations of Food and Identity (The Global Media Journal - Canadian Edition)

Call for Papers

2019: Volume 11, Issue 1

Mediations of Food: Identity, Power, and Contemporary Global Imaginaries

Guest Editor:

Dr. Tina Sikka, Newcastle University, UK

In the field of transnational media studies, food and food cultures are 
traditionally examined as type of media content, environmental/commodity 
object, or mode of sustenance (with some cultural significance), or, 
alternatively, as medium through which relations of gender, class, 
sexuality, and dis/ability are made manifest. Given this bifurcated 
lens, this issue seeks to bring together articles that examine the nexus 
between food cultures, identity, and media representation in more 
detail. Specifically, we seek submissions that use food as a lens 
through which to study how its mediated representation (e.g. television, 
print, film, the Internet/social media) reflects complicated histories 
of colonialism, empire, neoliberalism, and inequality, but also cultural 
resilience, social belonging, community, and political awareness.

Papers that draw into this discussion the complicated relationship 
between food media and racialisation, gender, class, sexuality, 
dis/ability, and other manifestations of identity are particularly 
welcome – especially those that take an intersectional approach and 
engage with the significance of changing and culturally contingent 
conceptions of health and bodily comportment. Articles that examine the 
use of food as a form of power and resistance, in both productive and 
dangerous ways, and which reveal how larger patters oppression and 
marginalization intersect with the social imagery, political economy, 
public policy, and cultural survival are also desirable.

Topics for this issue might include (but are not limited to):

•Digital media representation and food culture

•Food and intersectional identities

•Food and the politics of representation

•Food and post-colonialism

•Neoliberalism and global food regimes

•Food, privilege, and mediated cultural capital

•The cultural economics of food

•Food and transnational identities

•Food and social activism

•Food, power, and bodies

•Food, power, and discourse

•Food, capitalist forms of signification, and resistance

The Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition (http://www.gmj.uottawa.ca/) 
welcomes high-quality, original submissions on related topics to the 
above theme. Authors are strongly encouraged to contribute to the 
development of communication and media theories, report empirical and 
analytical research or present case studies, use critical discourses, 
and/or set out innovative research methodologies. The Journal is a 
bilingual (English and French) open-access online academic refereed 
publication that aims to advance research and

Deadline: April 15th, 2019

Submissions: Papers (5,000 to 7,500 words), review articles of more than 
one book (2,500 to 3,000 words), and book reviews (1,000 to 1,200 words).

Method: All manuscripts must be submitted electronically as Word 
Document attachments, directly to understanding of communication and 
media in Canada and around the globe.

Submissions: Papers (5,000 to 7,500 words), review articles of more than 
one book (2,500 to 3,000 words), and book reviews (1,000 to 1,200 words).

Method: All manuscripts must be submitted electronically as a word 
document to Dr. Tina Sikka ((tina.sikka /at/ newcastle.ac.uk))

Guidelines: Available at: http://www.gmj-canadianedition.ca/for-author

Decision:  April 30th, 2019

Publication: June 30th, 2019


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