Food activism

Abstract

The aim of this conceptual research is to discuss food activism as a format of political activism. The idea is to outline its individual and collective interests and actions, in addition to bringing under this concept different movements, events and food practices that still lack epistemological structuring precisely because they are conceptually young, fluid and dynamic in their complexity and relevance. Cultural studies on different types of activism and concepts from Humanities and Social Sciences’ authors were used in this conceptual and detailed research under the goals of food activism.  The study made it possible to raise cross-cutting challenges to the concept of food activism. To explore the intersection with different activist movements, notions of democracy, citizenship, justice, ‘nutricide’, racism, apartheid and food ethics were mobilized to dialogue with the field and problematize the concept of healthy eating and the reductionism that permeates such a concept. Finally, the study compiles a summary of the typologies and characteristics in the different formats of food activism and highlights the importance of producing future local empirical studies that focus on the different practices and on the profile of the actors involved in food activism