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- Convenors:
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Alexandra Endaltseva
(Assistance publique Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP))
Kateřina Holá (Charles University)
Nina de Bakker (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer (Charles University)
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- Format:
- Traditional Open Panel
Short Abstract
This panel asks how STS scholarship can shift from moralities of individualized consumption toward collective, situated, and processual ethics of food care in more-than-human worlds. We invite empirically grounded contributions exploring alternatives to dietary prescriptions or "healthy recipes".
Description
In contemporary food cultures-in-transition, eating is increasingly framed as an individualized act, a means to manage, quantify, and prevent both health and environmental risks. Yet nutrition-centered discourses often detach eaters from their socio-material, cultural, and economic environments. This detachment fuels hyper-responsibilization and intensifies anxieties, domestic pressures, marginalisations, and emotional burdens. Moreover, it disembeds eaters from the situated intimate work of weaving solidarity ties and metabolic communities that connect bodies, kinship networks, food systems, and ecologies, thus obscuring the situated care labor that eating in a more-than-human world brings into focus (Lorenz-Meyer, 2022; Law & Mol, 2008, Abbots et al, 2015). Nutritional governance stripped of its relationality and situatedness thus carries urgent ethical and political implications (Abrahamsson et al, 2015).
This panel asks how STS scholarship might help shift from moralities of individualized consumption toward collective, situated, and processual ethics of food care in more-than-human worlds (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017; Endaltseva & Dupuy, 2025). We approach eating as a compound practice — encompassing provisioning, cooking, organizing meal occasions, making aesthetic judgments of taste, and maintaining relations, traditions, and ecologies. We invite contributions that problematize the modalities, aims, and target audiences of dietary interventions designed to build resilience for human or planetary health.
Potential contributors are encouraged to reflect on their empirical findings and field practices at the intersections of food, health, and more-than-human relations, offering alternative “prescriptions,” “recipes,” or definitions of “dietary recommendations.” We welcome traditional presentations with a speculative touch, as well as creative or experimental modalities. Through this collective, empirically grounded, and imaginative effort, the panel seeks to reimagine eating as a practice of interdependence, solidarity, and care in a world-in-transition.