[ecrea] E-politics of food - call for papers

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)



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.

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