Food for Thought
Reflections on a Counter-hegemonic Food-related Intervention in a South African University
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3834876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Harley (0000-0002-4407-3805, University of KwaZulu-Natal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-107 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capitalism Nature Socialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5752 • E-ISSN: 1548-3290 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10455752.2018.1499786 |
| OpenAlex | W2884133114 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Currently the Academy operates primarily as a space that helps to create and cement neoliberal hegemony in the Gramscian sense. However, since hegemony is never complete, universities are a site of struggle and the opportunity exists to engage in a “war of position” within them. This must necessarily involve allowing space for counter-hegemonic discourses to emerge through critical reflection on “common sense” discourses, as well as the deliberate inclusion of counter-hegemonic thinking and theory from below. This article reflects on an attempt to do this in a South African university, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in relation to the issue of food. The Food Festival was an attempt to subvert interlocking hegemonic discourses, including that of food security, by “reading the world” (à la Freire) in order to understand the actual nature of existing food systems as inherently oppressive, and “inserting” the concept of food sovereignty as developed by the global peasants’ movement La Via Campesina. After considering the counter-hegemonic intentions of the Festival, the article reflects on its uneven success
Hegemony · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Gender Studies · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology
Marxism and literature
We make the road by walking
The Prison Houses of Knowledge
Gramsci's Critique of Civil Society
Learning from the Ground Up
A Pedagogy for Liberation
The Gramscian Moment
Synthesizing Gramsci and Freire
Food sovereignty
Food sovereignty as decolonization
Cheap Food and Bad Climate
Peasant activism and the rise of food sovereignty
Food Riots
Food sovereignty
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |