Cookbooks

A Tool for Engaged Research

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13100744
AutoresJen Bagelman (0000-0002-9322-1835, University of Exeter, autor correspondente), Mariana Astrid Nunez Silva (York University), Carly Bagelman (University of Victoria)
Ano2017
Volume3
Fascículo2
Páginas371-395
Data de publicação2017-07-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2373566x.2017.1374098
OpenAlexW2765173389
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas37

Cookbooks are not just about cooking. As scholars from various disciplines have long argued, cookbooks are emotive texts that play an active role in shaping norms about belonging, gender, class, race, and sexuality. This article suggests that although cookbooks are widely analyzed as vibrant sites of social, cultural, and geopolitical production, they are overlooked as a valuable method for doing engaged research. Grounded in practice, this article explores how cookbooks might be mobilized as an arts-based, collaborative academic research tool. By way of demonstration, this article shares how we (a collective of activists, academics, artists, and temporary foreign workers) used a cookbook to gather testimony, build solidarity, and politicize Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. By sharing our cookbook we hope to contribute to a growing area of research that stretches beyond traditional modes of dissemination and takes creative, lively form in ways that affirm the political lives of migrant communities

Autoethnography · Class (philosophy · Emotive · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Solidarity · The arts · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture