Where the discussions are…

What seems to be happening on day one of this project revival is that conversations are starting again in different places. To give everyone a sense of where things are happening, I’ve done two things. One is to write this post which I will update as things develop, and the other is that I’ve changed the comment widget on the right to include the latest 15 comments, so we can see the latest what’s happening where.

Hot topics at the moment

• Sebastian and Peter have brought up the importance of theorising food in our cultural geographies of ‘it’, its ‘vital materiality’, which must be an central element of what we write about, see here and here. Please join in!
• Mimi, Ann, Heike, Shoko and I are discussing performance/art-food-cultural geography here. [I have thrown in some quotations from Crang’s and Wylie’s (2010) papers to show what we’re bouncing off. This will keep us focused, hopefully… If you have written a previous post on the topic elsewhere, and want to place it and more in this discussion, please cut and paste it into a comment on this post. In terms of the chapter, this seems to be an important discussion/section. Please say what you think, summarise some arguments, and  chuck in some quotations! All will provide good raw chapter writing materials.]
• Ann and Damian (maybe me too) might be discussing diverse food economies here… [another side of the ‘performative’ geogs of food, ‘new scripts for the drama of food’, just a thought at the moment…]

Please comment on this post if you can see, or want, other themes, and/or think that these need some rethinking. Thanks! I’m trying to think ahead to the chapter structure… Apologies if your name isn’t on this list… my head is spinning…