Project description
Pioneering research on the food/violence nexus
Food and violence together figure into five of the EU’s six research priorities, and food studies is a widely interdisciplinary field with rapidly rising claims on the intellectual and applied research markets. Yet we understand little – because we have asked little – about the relationships between food and violence. The EU-funded FIOLENCE project will introduce a pioneering line of research at the food/violence nexus, expanding the range and influence of food studies and establishing methodological and theoretical models that pave the path for future related scientific work. The topics of study and areas of application make for a varied panorama, ranging from the links between food security and conflict to the biopolitics of weight loss or gain to the existentially liminal subjective experiences of forced feeding. To study such a panorama requires a new approach, and this project explores innovative methods at the intersection of anthropology and philosophy. In addition, FIOLENCE will propose advanced critical research into human rights questions that its research produces and investigates.
Objective
Food and violence are two major themes in 2019, together figuring in five of the EU’s six research priorities. Given two themes of such contemporaneity, purchase, and formalized priority, the following gap is surprising: There is almost no work that attempts to understand the relationship between food and violence. The goal of this project is to breach that gap, lay the first bricks in the foundation of a new research line at the food/violence nexus, and set the trajectory for what I expect to become a thriving area of work at the scholarship/society interface over the next decade. This project disrupts the facile approaches to both food and violence that predominate in mainstream attention and policy action. It will open a new research space at the food/violence nexus; amplify the reach and impact of food studies as a field; create operationalizable methodological and theoretical models at the underexploited anthropology/philosophy interface; forge continuable bonds among researchers, universities, civil society organizations, and UN bodies across Europe and the Americas; and introduce cutting-edge critical research into active human rights deliberations. It will also restart the career and renew the capacity for intellectual and policy contribution of a tenacious ER disabled and disembedded by a catastrophic medical error. The ER will be supervised by Dr. F.X.Medina in UOC’s world-renowned FoodLab research group, carry out a secondment with Dr. E. Pérez in CSIC’s pioneering Science, Technology, and Gender (STG) research group, and perform three study visits to the UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR).
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- social sciences law human rights
- humanities philosophy, ethics and religion philosophy
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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08018 BARCELONA
Spain
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