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Digital Food Activism: Perspectives from South Asia

Digital Food Activism: Perspectives from South Asia

Chattaraj, Dishari
Chatterjee, Aayushi

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 8, 2026

ISBN10: 3032290759
ISBN13: 9783032290755
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Nov 8 2026
Pages: 240
Language: English

This book explores the trajectories taken by digital food activism in South Asia, addressing the convergences that emerge at the juncture of social and culinary reformation. It focuses on self-led online campaigns from South Asia, centered around food de-corporatization, revival of foodways, and foregrounding of local and regional food knowledge and heritages -- interrogating how the public utilizes digitality's pace and reach to rectify a dysfunctional food system. The volume highlights the potential of digital food activism as 'public pedagogy' in mobilizing collective awareness and action against rapid commercialization of food and in favor of right to better consumption practices. The authors here conceptualize the term 'digital public food pedagogies', in which the publicness embedded in digital spaces is reoriented around practices of 'understanding' the food system, placing diverse yet co-constitutive food epistemologies at the center. This book, then, approaches digital and social media as sites that actors utilize to impact the 'gastronomic' -- a cultural field otherwise plagued by commercialization and its endorsement of misinformation.

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