Call for papers: thematic issue of Ethnologia Polona:The cultural politics of food and eating in Poland and beyond

Guest editors (issue 41, 2020):

Renata E. Hryciuk, PhD (University of Warsaw, Poland) and Katarzyna Król, PhD candidate (GSSR, Polish Academy of Sciences)

Since the early 2000s critical food studies have become a burgeoning academic field in Poland. In the special issue we want to demonstrate both the thematic scope and theoretical directions present in the works produced by scholars working on Poland, as well as Polish researchers working on other regions. We invite submissions which fit the thematic and territorial scope of the call for papers. We are especially interested in papers that present a clear methodological reflection and those based on original research.  

Potential themes we seek to address in this special issue include:

• the methodology of critical food studies
• (post)socialist foodways in EU and beyond
• changing food tastes and patterns of food consumption
• the cultural politics of feeding /nourishing
• memory, identity and nostalgia – anthropology of food and emotions
• gendered food(ways)
• the re-invention and/or gentrification of local/regional/national food(ways)
• the heritagization of food and foodways
• culinary tourism and culinary cosmopolitanism
• food and the ethics of eating
• alternative food networks
• food sovereignty, food citizenship, food justice
• food and migration.

Information for Contributors:

Please submit an abstract of 300 words to the editors at r.hryciuk@uw.edu.pl and a.halemba@uw.edu.pl by January 1st 2020.

The editors will communicate their decision by January 15th 2020. The approx. 6000 words long articles must be written in English. Ethnologia Polona provides the final language editing by professional proofreaders. 

Important deadlines:

Submission of the proposals: January 1, 2020

Invitation to submit: January 15, 2020

Submission of articles: April 17, 2020

Review process: until June 20, 2020

Resubmission: until August 15, 2020

Expected publication date: end of 2020 (issue 41, 2020) 

[Autorka zdjęć: Melissa Biggs]