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This announcement is reposted from H-Food. Please contact the original author, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch c.hanganu-bresch@usciences.edu , with questions.
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Greetings! I am soliciting chapters for an anthology to be published with an academic press and which will cover a wide range of rhetorical perspectives on veganism as identity, practice, ideology, and discursive ecology. Broad topic areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
In 2017, H-Nutrition participated in an online forum called "What is a Recipe?" initiated by The Recipes Project. This year we are collaborating with Remedia Network on the intertwined questions of "What should I eat? Why?" They lie at the heart of what has been variously described as scientific nutrition, religious tradition, or dietetics.
Our own Emily Contois interviewed Adrienne Rose Bitar, author of Diet and the Disease of Civilization, in this new post on Nursing Clio.
Ariel Aberg-Riger has a great post on food aid over at CityLab. I find media like this both generally enjoyable and really useful for teaching undergraduates.
