Hungry for peace: food peacebuilding in an entangled world / Elaine Mei Lien Pratley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pratley, Elaine Mei Lien, author.

Series:

Edinburgh feminist studies on peace, violence and justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building.

Food.

Community kitchens.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press, [2026].

Summary:

Hungry for Peace invites readers into the remarkable world of food as an active agent of conflict and connection. From community kitchens to food festivals and shared meals around tables, Elaine Mei Lien Pratley shows how food shapes tensions, sparks understanding and produces everyday peace. Through participatory fieldwork with young people in Melbourne, Australia, ordinary acts – eating consciously, sampling unfamiliar cuisines and reducing food waste – emerge as powerful, agentic gestures that negotiate conflict, build trust and nurture connection. Blending feminist peace studies, food research and posthumanist theory, the book reveals how more-than-human actors – smells, ingredients, tables and atmospheres – participate directly in peace and conflict. It shows food practices not as background, but as lively collaborators in peacebuilding, offering new ways to understand, navigate, and shape conflict in our interconnected, entangled world.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

List of Collaborators

Introduction: Food, Peace and Posthumanism

Food as Instrument of Peace-Conflict

Food as Posthumanist Peacebuilding

Researching Food with Young People

The More-than-Human Peacebuilder

Transcorporeal Bodies as Food Peacebuilders

Posthumanist Dialogues During a Pandemic

Animal Food Peacebuilding

Food-Care as Peacebuilding

Conclusion: A Food Peace Research Agenda

Appendix A: Glossary of Key Terms

Appendix B: A Tasting Menu of Food-as-Methods

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1399547704

9781399547703