FIOLENCE: A New Research Space at the Food/Violence Nexus

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Food and violence are two major themes in 2019, together figuring in five of the EU’s six research priorities. Given two themes of such contemporaneity, purchase, and formalized priority, the following gap is surprising: There is almost no work that attempts to understand the relationship between food and violence. The goal of this project is to breach that gap, lay the first bricks in the foundation of a new research line at the food/violence nexus, and set the trajectory for what I expect to become a thriving area of work at the scholarship/society interface over the next decade. This project disrupts the facile approaches to both food and violence that predominate in mainstream attention and policy action. It will open a new research space at the food/violence nexus; amplify the reach and impact of food studies as a field; create operationalizable methodological and theoretical models at the underexploited anthropology/philosophy interface; forge continuable bonds among researchers, universities, civil society organizations, and UN bodies across Europe and the Americas; and introduce cutting-edge critical research into active human rights deliberations. It will also restart the career and renew the capacity for intellectual and policy contribution of a tenacious ER disabled and disembedded by a catastrophic medical error. The ER will be supervised by Dr. F.X.Medina in UOC’s world-renowned FoodLab research group, carry out a secondment with Dr. E. Pérez in CSIC’s pioneering Science, Technology, and Gender (STG) research group, and perform three study visits to the UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR).