Call for abstracts: Gleanings, due Friday, November 24, 2023.

Call for abstracts: Gleanings, due Friday, November 24, 2023. 

Grad students and postdocs: showcase your research in Gleanings, a short-form publication series from Culture & Agriculture. This issue’s theme is memory and futurity in the food and farm system.

Gleanings, a short-form publication series from the American Anthropology Association’s Culture and Agriculture section, is pleased to announce that we are seeking proposals from graduate students and postdocs, for short essays (1200 to 1800 words) to be published in the spring of 2024. Gleanings is an intellectually rigorous, theme-based series focused on food and agriculture. It promotes the work of graduate and postdoctoral anthropology students by featuring two to three short essays based on students’ original research. 

This issue’s theme is memory and futurity in the food and farm system. How are foodways, food practices, farming, and landscapes shaped by and through social practices of memory and futurity? How do your interlocutors consider the past and the future as they navigate, build, observe, participate in, resist, and contest foodways, land, and farming? How do memories of injustice or futurities of justice inform food- and farm-related social practices? How is the past considered, revived, reviled, idolized, critiqued? How are futurities encoded with anticipation, fear, hope, nostalgia? And how are these imagined food and farm pasts and futures imbued in and enacted by social and political practices of right now?

Proposals could address, but are not limited to: 

·  Food, farm, and/or landscape memory 

·  Memory and futurity of environmental racism, justice, and injustice

·  Remembering, memory work, and memorializing in food and farming

·  Responsibility and justice in food and farming

·  Futurity, anticipatory politics, social movements in food and farming

·  Social memory and politics of food and/or agriculture

Proposals should be limited to 150-300 words, rooted in original ethnographic and anthropological research, and speak to this issue’s theme. If accepted, we request you submit your essay manuscript (1200 to 1800 words) within six weeks of acceptance, accompanied by an optional 1-2 images. We will review and provide editorial guidance for six weeks, with final essays due 14 weeks after acceptance.

Proposals are due Friday, November 24 via this Google form. Writers will be notified of their acceptance no later than Friday, December 1, and accepted essays will be published in March 2024.

If you have any questions, please contact Culture and Agriculture Student Representative and Gleanings Editor Rebecca Dudley, at rebecca.a.dudley@wustl.edu, with “Gleanings CFP” in the subject line.