Food Practices in Motion: Migration, Consumption and Urban Food Systems

Astract

The Consumption, Lifestyles and Sustainability Table of the Italian Network of Local Food Policies invites you to a webinar exploring the relationship between migration, everyday food practices and urban food policies.

Drawing on two studies conducted in Trento and Milan, Tabitha W. Kanyui and Rica Mae Ramirez will discuss how Kenyan and Filipino migrant households adapt and reconfigure their food practices in new urban environments. Their research challenges conventional understandings of “local” food and highlights the importance of recognising diverse food cultures, competences and everyday needs when developing more inclusive and sustainable food policies.

The presentations will be followed by reflections from Marzia Mauriello, anthropologist at the University of Naples L’Orientale, whose research explores food cultures, identity and migration, and Maddalena Cirani, lecturer in Food Systems Resource Management at The School for Field Studies in Italy, whose work focuses on sustainable food consumption and food-system transformation.

The webinar will provide an opportunity to discuss how everyday food practices can inform more inclusive approaches to local food governance and how urban food policies can better account for the diversity of contemporary food systems.

The webinar will be held in English and is open to everyone interested in food practices, migration, consumption and sustainable urban food systems.

Link to the webinar

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Speakers

Rica Mae Ramirez
Tabitha Kanyui
MA in Sociology and Social Research

Chair

Mattia Andreola
Università di Trento

Discussant

Marzia Mauriello
Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale

Maddalena Cirani
The School for Field Studies - Italy