{"title":"Geopolitics, Food Security, and Imaginings of the State in Qatar’s Desert Landscape","authors":"Kristin V. Monroe","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12243","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85334440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tales of Landings and Legacies: African Americans in Georgia's Coastal Fisheries","authors":"Dionne L. Hoskins‐Brown","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12248","url":null,"abstract":"Harambee-Join us in our annual ethnic potluck feast celebrating everyone of every race! Enjoy multicultural arts, delicious food, and live music.","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89977880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Years Ago the Crabs Was so Plenty”: Anthropology's Role in Ecological Grieving and Conservation Work","authors":"Suzanne Kent, K. Brondo","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75000255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Farming the Great Sage Plain: Experimental Agroarchaeology and the Basketmaker\u0000 III\u0000 Soil Record","authors":"C. Fadem, S. Diederichs","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12241","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89842323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
At the time we are writing this, the world is focused on fighting an unprecedented global pandemic following the spread of COVID-19. Many have been advised to work from home, and “social distancing” policies prohibit face-to-face interactions or social gatherings of more than ten. The articles in this issue reflect the creative and collaborative ways that anthropologists, including archaeologists, study how people experience and adapt to rapid or gradual ecological and social change in specific community contexts. As we grapple personally and intellectually with how to navigate the connections and disconnections created by COVID-19, these articles remind us of the many analytical tools that we have for researching processes of crisis, disruption, and renewal. The authors help us understand how communities process, grieve, remember, and work collaboratively toward renewal after experiencing different types of loss of environmental quality, livelihood, access to familiar foods, and mobility across borders. They remind us to take time to understand the deeply emotional, as well as the political and economic, processes at work in times of crisis and inspire us to continue working together (despite social distancing) to document the ways that communities navigate disruption. In Farming the Great Sage Plain: Experimental Agroarchaeology and the Basketmaker III Soil Record, Cynthia M. Fadem and Shanna R. Diederichs draw on the results of two research projects undertaken by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center to investigate patterns of soil development in the semiarid Mesa Verde region. This research allows them to explore the effects of dryland agricultural practices used by Ancestral Pueblo peoples on pedogenesis (the process of soil formation) and soil fertility. These findings are important for understanding Ancestral Pueblo farming practices and lifeways and for mitigating the effects of climate change and desertification in this region today. Fadem and Diederichs also demonstrate the value of collaborative research in archaeology; at Crow Canyon, archaeologists work alongside members of the Hopi tribe as they experiment with traditional farming techniques. Suzanne Kent and Keri Vacanti Brondo explore the importance of documenting how communities identify and ritualize emotional experiences of environmental loss in “Years Ago the Crabs Was so Plenty”: Anthropology’s Role in Ecological Grieving and Conservation Work. They tease out the many ways that ecological grieving is central to our experiences in the Anthropocene and how it can create spaces for hope and regeneration. Working collaboratively with conservationists based in Honduras, Kent and Brondo conducted interviews with people living on the island of Utila. They examine these particular narratives of ecological loss and call on anthropologists to pay closer attention to the emotional dynamics of environmental change. Consumption, especially of food, is a key form of political engagement, a
{"title":"Crisis, Disruption, and Renewal: Diverse Approaches to Understanding How Communities Navigate Loss and Disconnection","authors":"M. Styles, D. Sen","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12246","url":null,"abstract":"At the time we are writing this, the world is focused on fighting an unprecedented global pandemic following the spread of COVID-19. Many have been advised to work from home, and “social distancing” policies prohibit face-to-face interactions or social gatherings of more than ten. The articles in this issue reflect the creative and collaborative ways that anthropologists, including archaeologists, study how people experience and adapt to rapid or gradual ecological and social change in specific community contexts. As we grapple personally and intellectually with how to navigate the connections and disconnections created by COVID-19, these articles remind us of the many analytical tools that we have for researching processes of crisis, disruption, and renewal. The authors help us understand how communities process, grieve, remember, and work collaboratively toward renewal after experiencing different types of loss of environmental quality, livelihood, access to familiar foods, and mobility across borders. They remind us to take time to understand the deeply emotional, as well as the political and economic, processes at work in times of crisis and inspire us to continue working together (despite social distancing) to document the ways that communities navigate disruption. In Farming the Great Sage Plain: Experimental Agroarchaeology and the Basketmaker III Soil Record, Cynthia M. Fadem and Shanna R. Diederichs draw on the results of two research projects undertaken by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center to investigate patterns of soil development in the semiarid Mesa Verde region. This research allows them to explore the effects of dryland agricultural practices used by Ancestral Pueblo peoples on pedogenesis (the process of soil formation) and soil fertility. These findings are important for understanding Ancestral Pueblo farming practices and lifeways and for mitigating the effects of climate change and desertification in this region today. Fadem and Diederichs also demonstrate the value of collaborative research in archaeology; at Crow Canyon, archaeologists work alongside members of the Hopi tribe as they experiment with traditional farming techniques. Suzanne Kent and Keri Vacanti Brondo explore the importance of documenting how communities identify and ritualize emotional experiences of environmental loss in “Years Ago the Crabs Was so Plenty”: Anthropology’s Role in Ecological Grieving and Conservation Work. They tease out the many ways that ecological grieving is central to our experiences in the Anthropocene and how it can create spaces for hope and regeneration. Working collaboratively with conservationists based in Honduras, Kent and Brondo conducted interviews with people living on the island of Utila. They examine these particular narratives of ecological loss and call on anthropologists to pay closer attention to the emotional dynamics of environmental change. Consumption, especially of food, is a key form of political engagement, a","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75367159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont Teresa M. Mares. 2019. Berkeley: University of California Press, 240 pages, ISBN: 9780520295735 paperback.","authors":"James P. Verinis","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12249","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/cuag.12249","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91396305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Achieving cleaner water for rural and suburban communities in a sustainable way requires approaches tailored to the unique socioeconomic, ecological, and historic contexts embedded in a particular community and place. Water quality trading (WQT) is a payment for ecosystem services style policy that is currently popular across North America as a mechanism to reduce water pollution from rural communities. Yet this approach is failing to generate markets with enough trades to measurably improve waterways. Some failures are attributed to poor program design and others to stakeholder communities who are averse to the premise or morality of WQT. However, rural communities are not homogenous and many are in fact amenable to payment for ecosystem services policies such as WQT. Although our case study identified Tennessee watersheds as “feasible” locations, we present evidence that the typical program design parameters would fail, despite having a willing population of farmers. We argue that identifying amenable communities or feasible locations simplifies the agency of stakeholders and is ultimately insufficient to make ecosystem services programs work unless the design and implementation phases of the programs include local stakeholders.
{"title":"A Place at the Well: The Imperative for Farmer Inclusion in Water Conservation Policy Design","authors":"Caela O’Connell, Krista Billingsley","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12247","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Achieving cleaner water for rural and suburban communities in a sustainable way requires approaches tailored to the unique socioeconomic, ecological, and historic contexts embedded in a particular community and place. Water quality trading (WQT) is a payment for ecosystem services style policy that is currently popular across North America as a mechanism to reduce water pollution from rural communities. Yet this approach is failing to generate markets with enough trades to measurably improve waterways. Some failures are attributed to poor program design and others to stakeholder communities who are averse to the premise or morality of WQT. However, rural communities are not homogenous and many are in fact amenable to payment for ecosystem services policies such as WQT. Although our case study identified Tennessee watersheds as “feasible” locations, we present evidence that the typical program design parameters would fail, despite having a willing population of farmers. We argue that identifying amenable communities or feasible locations simplifies the agency of stakeholders and is ultimately insufficient to make ecosystem services programs work unless the design and implementation phases of the programs include local stakeholders.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/cuag.12247","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91824055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Achieving cleaner water for rural and suburban communities in a sustainable way requires approaches tailored to the unique socioeconomic, ecological, and historic contexts embedded in a particular community and place. Water quality trading (WQT) is a payment for ecosystem services style policy that is currently popular across North America as a mechanism to reduce water pollution from rural communities. Yet this approach is failing to generate markets with enough trades to measurably improve waterways. Some failures are attributed to poor program design and others to stakeholder communities who are averse to the premise or morality of WQT. However, rural communities are not homogenous and many are in fact amenable to payment for ecosystem services policies such as WQT. Although our case study identified Tennessee watersheds as “feasible” locations, we present evidence that the typical program design parameters would fail, despite having a willing population of farmers. We argue that identifying amenable communities or feasible locations simplifies the agency of stakeholders and is ultimately insufficient to make ecosystem services programs work unless the design and implementation phases of the programs include local stakeholders. [water quality, agriculture, payment for ecosystem services, policy, economics]
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{"title":"Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry Julie Guthman. 2019. Berkeley: University of California Press, 328 pages, ISBN: 978052030528, paperback.","authors":"Susan Andreatta","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12244","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cuag.12244","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/cuag.12244","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78172844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In June 2017, a geopolitical crisis that emerged in the Arab Gulf between Qatar and several of its neighboring countries resulted in the severing of diplomatic ties and the imposition of a land, sea, and air embargo on Qatar. This article explores how the import, production, and consumption of food in Qatar came to constitute a key geopolitical axis during the first year of the crisis. Building on scholarly work that examines food as not just a part of the economic and social fields but also a form of political engagement, I argue that food became an important arena of politics during the blockade in several ways. First, the state’s reorganization of trade networks and its support for Qatari agricultural production became a site for the expansion of the state’s food security agenda. Second, the consumption of food—and the physical space of the supermarket itself—became a geopolitical battleground as new trade arrangements led to the replacement of products made by “blockading countries” with those from alternative ones. The intensification of local agricultural production, in turn, forged a “buy local” consumer culture that shaped, and was shaped by, nationalist sentiments. Looking closely at the import, production, and consumption of food during the blockade illuminates the ways in which food is an everyday medium through which state ideologies and state imaginings of the nation are constructed and circulated.
{"title":"Geopolitics, Food Security, and Imaginings of the State in Qatar’s Desert Landscape","authors":"Kristin V. Monroe","doi":"10.1111/cuag.12243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12243","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In June 2017, a geopolitical crisis that emerged in the Arab Gulf between Qatar and several of its neighboring countries resulted in the severing of diplomatic ties and the imposition of a land, sea, and air embargo on Qatar. This article explores how the import, production, and consumption of food in Qatar came to constitute a key geopolitical axis during the first year of the crisis. Building on scholarly work that examines food as not just a part of the economic and social fields but also a form of political engagement, I argue that food became an important arena of politics during the blockade in several ways. First, the state’s reorganization of trade networks and its support for Qatari agricultural production became a site for the expansion of the state’s food security agenda. Second, the consumption of food—and the physical space of the supermarket itself—became a geopolitical battleground as new trade arrangements led to the replacement of products made by “blockading countries” with those from alternative ones. The intensification of local agricultural production, in turn, forged a “buy local” consumer culture that shaped, and was shaped by, nationalist sentiments. Looking closely at the import, production, and consumption of food during the blockade illuminates the ways in which food is an everyday medium through which state ideologies and state imaginings of the nation are constructed and circulated.</p>","PeriodicalId":54150,"journal":{"name":"Culture Agriculture Food and Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/cuag.12243","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91879244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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