Ninth International Conference on Food Studies

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to share the results of the research Food Sovereignty and Communication for Social Change, which main objectives were: Understand the subjectivities and the communication processes that are part of experiences related with the production and distribution of food, taking in consideration cultural practices of food sovereignty. Create an intercultural encounter among the different experiences to consolidate a communication strategy that allows the empowerment of these food alternative practices in the city of Cali in Colombia. Two methodological approaches will be presented in order to explain how the research was accomplished: Discourse analysis and the characterization of communication interaction and processes which illustrate the way “other” type of subjectivities are constructed when subjects, through social practice, take the determination to resist the hegemony of the agro industrial ways of production and distribution of food, and the communicative participation method to build the strategy that allows these social actor being more visible and protagonist in the environmental transformation of the city of Cali.