Abstract
Responding to the call for adding depth and breath to how gastronomic-related practices can shape appropriate and just food system transformations, this project presents two empirical Global South examples anchored on the concept of Gastronomic Landscapes. These are land and seascapes that are governed, managed, or cared for to contribute to culinary development, landscape resilience, and food system sustainability—that is, they manifest forms of biosphere stewardship. By adopting a transdisciplinary and mixed-methods research approach, the two cases located in Uruguay engage collectives working on two neglected but potentially transformative elements of the mainstream national food system: blue foods and indigenous foods. Both studies are anchored on the co-creation of ‘recipes for change’ with a view to pluralizing and ‘desnobberizing’ gastronomy’s transformative change potential. Indeed, these recipes represent tangible products of collective creativity and innovation that manifest, but can also inspire, wiser production and consumption practices. Recipe co-creation also helps support existing and new partnerships, foster learning and trust, and co-produce knowledge that is relevant and useful for the communities involved as well as for other food system actors. Preliminary insights show that the assemblages that the different gastronomic land and seascapes in the cases represent are heavily reliant on a particular form of creativity, which simultaneously and intentionally pulls towards preservation and innovation (past and future). Thus, this suggests that this type of transformative creativity constitutes a central feature of gastronomic landscapes and that it must be safeguarded and nurtured if we are to move toward wise food system transformations.
Presenters
Silvana JuriPostdoctoral Fellow, SARAS Institute / Stockholm Resilience Centre, Maldonado, Uruguay
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
GASTRONOMIC LANDSCAPES, FOOD SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION, RECIPE CO-CREATION, TRANSDISCIPLINARITY, GLOBAL SOUTH
