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Lundi 29 janvier 2024, 17 h-19 h : Megan Vaughan, « A colonial metabolism : food, nutrition and extraction in Malawi »
Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene seminar, dir. Ivana Teixeira (Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology - UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Center for the Study of the Anthropology of the Body and Health - NUPACS)
Embodied Anthropocene Project - UCL - University College London
Monday January 29th, 5-6:30pm (UK Time)
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« In this paper I develop the concept of a colonial metabolism through an examination of the ways in which rural communities in colonial Malawi adapted their food systems in the face of the new demands of the colonial economy in the mid twentieth century. Drawing on the insights of recent scholarship in environmental anthropology, interspecies studies, the microbiome and the ‘Anthropocene’, I re-examine the work of colonial scientists to explore the sources of nutrition that under-pinned a system of colonial extraction, paying particular attention to ‘wild’ foods, insects and the technologies of food processing.
This forms part of a larger and longer story of Malawi’s food system, of debates on the country’s record of food shortages and malnutrition, and of current challenges to a system of maize production highly dependent on the importation and subsidisation of artificial fertilisers. »
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