Ice, Food Matters, Structures: An Edited Interview with Dr Hi’ilei Hobart and Dr Emily Yates-Doerr

Abstract

Dr Hi’ilei Hobart and Dr Emily Yates-Doerr delivered keynote talks at the international Conference Food Matters and Materialities: Critical Understandings of Food Cultures (September 2021) which we, Myriam Durocher and Irena Knezevic, co-organized. We invited Dr Hobart and Dr Yates-Doerr to present their work given its important contributions to critical food studies, especially through exploring unfair and unequal relationships to and through food. At the Conference, Dr Hobart shared insights from her fieldwork in an encampment at Pu’uhonua o Pu’uhuluhulu at the summit of Mauna Kea, detailing practices of resistance led by Indigenous communities, and the role of food and ice in these practices. Dr Yates-Doerr shared insights and stories emerging from her fieldwork in Guatemala, proposing reflections on how we might want to do and share research in food studies otherwise. Dr Sophie Chao and Dr Natali Valdez were the discussants for Dr Hobart and Dr Yates-Doerr talks, respectively. Their talks resonated powerfully with the Conference theme as we aimed to address how power relationships take form