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SUMMARY:Alternative Food Movement in China
DESCRIPTION: \n  \nSpeaker: Caroline Merrifield (Ph.D.\, Anthropology\, Yale University\, 2018)\, independent scholar\nModerated by: Dorothy Ko\, Professor of History\, Barnard College \nA huge component of Dr. Merrifield’s field research was studying food provisioning – she served as an informal apprentice to the head of procurement at a farm-to-table restaurant in Hangzhou. She will talk about the restaurant’s supplier network and foodshed within the larger context of the alternative food movement and the cultural politics of food in China. Why is food a potent site for social organizing? Why are food safety scandals so anxiety-producing – and why might food be occasioning new forms of social connection and solidarity? Finally\, she will share her understanding of food as a method (rather than a topic/object); the sensory\, affective\, and material properties of food can afford unexpected insight into memory\, history\, and politics. \nSpeaker Bio: Caroline Merrifield received an MPhil and a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from Yale University\, and an AB from Harvard College in Social Studies. Her research investigates food sourcing arrangements in China’s alternative food movement\, which has emerged against a background of urgent public concern over food safety. In this research\, food is a crucial site for investigating problems of moral consensus-making in a time of Chinese “moral crisis.” Caroline’s work engages with theories of kinship\, moral economy\, trust and risk\, agrarian change and urbanization\, taste and flavor\, and the state. She is currently preparing a book manuscript based on her dissertation project\, Eating Against the Grain in Late Socialist China. \nNo registration required\nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu\n \n
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