Food for Justice at the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in 2023

Food For Justice will participate in the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne (Australia). The Congress will take place in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Center from June 25th to July 1st.

Food for Justice organized two Panels at the congress. The first panel “The Potential of Food Movements and Intersectional Food Inequalities”, organized by Marco Teixeira and Renata Motta, looks at social movements that have mobilized against injustices within the food system and built alternative food practices. The panel will invite papers working on the emancipatory potentials and limitations of food movements in addressing multiple dimensional and intersectional food inequalities.

The other panel “Food and Social Change“, organized by Renata Motta and Eloisa Martin will use food as a productive lens to understand broader social dynamics by contributing to a key theoretical debate in sociology.

Food for Justice activities at the ISA

Mariana Calcagni and Lea Zentgraf will present their PhD-projects in an pre-Congress PhD-Workshop organized by RC48 on Saturday, 24.

On Monday, 26, Marco Antonio Teixeira will be the chair of the RC40 Panel Food and Social Change I. In the afternoon Mariana Calcagni will moderate the RC47 Panel Food for Justice with presentations by Renata Motta, Lea Zentgraf, Marco Antonio Teixeira and Eryka Galindo.

On Wednesday, 28, Lea Zentgraf will be the chair of the RC40 Panel Food and Social Change II.

On Thursday, 29, Marco Antonio Teixeira will be the chair of the RC47 Panel The Potential of Food Movements and Intersectional Food Inequalities. In the evening, he was elected Secretary of the new RC47 Board.

On Friday, 30, Mariana Calcagni will be the chair of the RC40 Panel Food and Social Change III.

The congress focuses on the Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies in a context of a global re-emergence of authoritarianism.

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Participants: Marco Antonio Teixeira, Renata Motta, Eryka Galindo, Lea Zentgraf, Mariana Calcagni

Organizing institutions: International Sociological Association

Date and location

• June 25 – July 1
• Hybrid (Online and Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre)