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• The practice and politics of food system localization
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  As an apparent counterpoint to globalization, food system localization is often assumed to be a good, progressive and desirable process. Such thinking rests on a local–global binary that merits closer scrutiny. This paper examines the social construction of “local”, by analyzing the practice and politics of food system localization efforts in Iowa, USA. It argues that desirable social or environmental outcomes may not always map neatly onto the spatial content of “local”, which itself involves the social construction of scale. These contradictions in turn relate to differing political inflections discernible in food system localization. Localization can be approached defensively, emphasizing the boundaries and distinctions between a culturally and socially homogeneous locality needing protection from non-local “others”. But through the experience of new social and gustatory exchanges, localization can also promote increased receptivity to difference and diversity. More emergent, fluid and inclusive notions of the “local”, however, may challenge the very project of crafting and maintaining distinctive food identities for local places. These themes are explored through a case study of food system localization efforts and activities in Iowa, an American state that has been a stronghold of conventional commodity agriculture. Demographic and agricultural histories are drawn on to understand recent food system localization practice that has come to emphasize a definition of “local” that coincides with sub-national state boundaries. The emergence and popularization of the “Iowa-grown banquet meal” and the shifting meaning of “local Iowa food” further illustrate the potential tension between defensiveness and diversity in food system localization.

• Méthodes d’investigation de l’alimentation et des mangeurs
  8 décembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Dans cet ouvrage, les méthodes pour étudier l’alimentation et les « mangeurs » sont au centre.

• An emerging user-led participatory methodology : Mapping impact pathways of urban food system sustainability innovations
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This chapter presents the general framework for the URBAL project as well as the main interwoven considerations and approaches that are the backbone of the methodology. Please note that this is an ongoing project and that it has evolved since the chapter has been written. We will point out some changes in the methodology as the chapter proceeds

• Approche sociologique des néophobies alimentaires chez l’enfant
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  À partir d’une interrogation sur les enfants autistes, leurs singularités alimentaires ainsi que les difficultés et les ajustements pour l’entourage nourricier autour des repas, les auteurs, sociologues, questionnent les évolutions du répertoire alimentaire et plus particulièrement la phase de la néophobie. Ce travail examine la simultanéité et la complémentarité des processus de socialisation et d’individuation dans les évolutions des pratiques alimentaires des enfants. S’interroger en articulant les approches psychologique et sociologique permet d’explorer les soubassements des normes. Et aussi de distinguer la perspective phylogénétique à tendance universalisante de la néophobie de l’enfant dans le cadre de l’ontogénèse.

• Jamais seul. Ces microbes qui construisent les plantes, les animaux et les civilisations
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Nous savons aujourd’hui que les microbes ne doivent plus seulement être associés aux maladies ou à la décomposition. Au contraire, ils jouent un rôle en tous points essentiel : tous les organismes vivants, végétaux ou animaux, dépendent intimement de microbes qui contribuent à leur nutrition, leur développement, leur immunité ou même leur comportement. Toujours pris dans un réseau d’interactions microbiennes, ces organismes ne sont donc… jamais seuls. (présentation de l’éditeur)

• Power at the table : food fights and happy meals
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  In family meals the normative and the performative are very far apart—though everyone likes to think of the family table as a place of harmony and solidarity, it is often the scene for the exercise of power and authority, a place where conflict prevails. My interest in this topic was sparked by research on middle-class parents’ struggles with their “picky eater” children. Besides narrating the way the dinner table became battleground with their own children, many parents also recalled their own childhood family meals as painful and difficult. From this very narrow focus on family struggles, I expand the discussion to the larger question of why this topic is relatively ignored in social science, and I question the sources of the normative power of the family “happy meal.” The ideological emphasis on family dinners has displaced social responsibility from public institutions to private lives, and the construction of normative family performances is part of a process that constructs different family types as deviant and delinquent.

• 2020 Global Nutrition Report
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  The 2020 Global Nutrition Report looks beyond global and national patterns, revealing significant inequalities in nutrition outcomes within countries and populations. Based on the best-available data, in-depth analysis and expert opinion rooted in evidence, the report identifies critical actions to achieve nutrition equity. Everyone deserves access to healthy, affordable food and quality nutrition care.

• The global distribution of acute unintentional pesticide poisoning : estimations based on a systematic review
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Human poisoning by pesticides has long been seen as a severe public health problem. As early as 1990, a task force of the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that about one million unintentional pesticide poisonings occur annually, leading to approximately 20,000 deaths. Thirty years on there is no up-to-date picture of global pesticide poisoning despite an increase in global pesticide use. Our aim was to systematically review the prevalence of unintentional, acute pesticide poisoning (UAPP), and to estimate the annual global number of UAPP.
  We carried out a systematic review of the scientific literature published between 2006 and 2018, supplemented by mortality data from WHO. We extracted data from 157 publications and the WHO cause-of-death database, then performed country-wise synopses, and arrived at annual numbers of national UAPP. World-wide UAPP was estimated based on national figures and population data for regions defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

• Le mangeur hypermoderne
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Le micro-ondes et les portions individuelles, le péché de gourmandise, l’anorexie et l’obésité épidémiques, les McDo’s, le slow-food, le fooding, le traiteur à domicile, la gastronomie moléculaire : autant d’objets, de faits et de pratiques sociales qui révèlent les traits propres à la société contemporaine. Après ses travaux sur les villes, François Ascher poursuit son étude de la société « hypermoderne » en s’appuyant cette fois sur l’évolution des pratiques alimentaires. Il en tire des hypothèses ambitieuses et stimulantes sur le développement du modèle du restaurant, y compris à la maison, sur les relations entre sociabilité et pratiques alimentaires, sur l’émergence d’un nouveau groupe social, la « classe créative », pour laquelle la nourriture devient une question d’esthétique quotidienne, etc. Une véritable radiographie de la vie quotidienne d’aujourd’hui ; une réflexion originale sur la liberté des individus telle qu’elle s’exerce chaque jour.

• The governance of city food systems : case studies from around the world
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This book brings together eight papers on the governance of city food systems. As case studies, they examine the governance of city food systems in Milan, Belo Horizonte, Vancouver, Edinburgh, Bristol, Bangkok, Jakarta and Singapore.