Papers by Isabelle Techoueyres
Cristina Grasseni, Beyond alternative food networks ; Italy’s solidarity purchase groups
Anthropology of food
Cristina Grasseni, 2013, Beyond alternative food networks ; Italy’s solidarity purchase groups, L... more Cristina Grasseni, 2013, Beyond alternative food networks ; Italy’s solidarity purchase groups, London and New York : Bloomsbury (210 p.) Profitons de l’Expo Milan 2015, dont le theme est « Nourrir la planete, l’energie de la vie», pour reflechir a des themes tels qu’une alimentation soutenable, le commerce equitable et les « consom’acteurs ». L’ouvrage de Cristina Grasseni (2013) constitue un parfait support pour nourrir la reflexion sur l’engagement citoyen pour un monde plus juste. A parti...
Introduction to Varia in progress
Anthropology of food
Since the first issue of Anthropology of Food in 2001, which was about ‘traditions and food local... more Since the first issue of Anthropology of Food in 2001, which was about ‘traditions and food local identities’, the journal has come a long way. Eleven issues are now on line; new subjects have yielded much food for thought and activated new paths for research. Contributions have been made from colleagues around the world, while the task which we assigned ourselves within the Editorial Board is starting to bear fruit. The journal receives an increasing number of proposals from both renowned au...
Food, migrations and ecology in South-West Ivory Coast La Côte d'Ivoire est le plus grand théâtre... more Food, migrations and ecology in South-West Ivory Coast La Côte d'Ivoire est le plus grand théâtre des migrations cacaoyères en Afrique sub-saharienne, depuis le Sahel et les régions de savane vers les forêts humides du golfe de Guinée. Dans tout le sud-ouest de la Côte d'Ivoire, se côtoient trois grands groupes de populations, les autochtones, les migrants d'originaires du centre du pays, et les migrants venus du Burkina Faso, ayant construit des modèles alimentaires spécifiques avant de se rencontrer. L'objectif est d'identifier les évolutions depuis leur rencontre dans les forêts du sud-ouest, puis d'en expliquer les déterminants. Les données collectées auprès de 110 planteurs, par questionnaires et interviews, sont limitées à la composante alimentaire des céréales, tubercules, banane plantain. Le résultat le plus important est une conversion partielle des régimes alimentaires des migrants vers le riz, longtemps l'alimentation de base des autochtones. Au cours de la même période de 30 ans, les autochtones suivent un chemin opposé, réduisant leur consommation de riz, abandonnant presque la production. Pour expliquer cette énigme sociologique, les thèses néo-malthusiennes appliquées à la Côte d'Ivoire, un temps contestées, sont remises à l'ordre du jour, teintées d'innovations boserupiennes. À la croisée des changements écologiques, économiques et sociaux, la raréfaction des terres, la disparition des forêts au cours du déroulement du cycle du cacao, l'accès différencié au travail, jouent un rôle décisif dans ces changements alimentaires, via des bouleversements dans les systèmes de production et les rapports sociaux. The Ivory Coast is the largest space for cocoa migrations in sub-Saharan Africa, extending from the Sahel and savannah regions to the 'Les Baoulé ne sont pas des oiseaux pour manger du riz'. 1 sur 21 07/01/2011 03:20 rainforests of the Gulf of Guinea. In the southwest of Ivory Coast, three major population groups live side by side: natives, migrants coming from the central region of the country, and migrants coming from Burkina Faso. Each group had built its own particular food patterns and habits before they met. The aim of this paper is to identify the evolution since they met in this region and explain the determining factors. Data obtained from questionnaires and interviews passed with 110 farmers is limited to the following dietary components: cereals, tubers and plantain. The most important finding is the partial conversion of migrants' diet to rice, which used to be natives' daily diet. During the same 30-year period, natives followed the opposite path, reducing their rice consumption, almost abandoning rice production. To explain this sociological enigma, neo-Malthusian theories applied to Ivory Coast, which were disputed for a while, are now back on the agenda, coloured with Boserupian innovations. At the intersection of economic and ecological change, land depletion and forest disappearance occuring during the cocoa cycle, differentiated access to labour, play an important role in food pattern changes.
Les conditions de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales dans le domaine de l’alimentation
FOOD2GATHER: What is migrants’ food all about in Europe? A media discourse analysis through the lens of controversies
30, 2021
This report is part of the HERANET funded project FOOD2GATHER. The project aims at understanding ... more This report is part of the HERANET funded project FOOD2GATHER. The project aims at understanding the question of integration/exclusion of migrants through foodscapes. An important step in this direction is to analyse the contextual framework within which food-related practices, norms and values are embedded in European societies. Food controversies that have raised and have been reported in the media since the “2015 migrants’ crisis” across Europe can reveal important aspects related to such norms and values and indicate possible tensions and compromises. This report presents and discusses relevant food controversies that occurred in the six countries participating in the study (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, and the Netherlands). This will generate a contextual overview of the integration/exclusion of migrants through foodscapes. Controversy has been used as a tool and a scanner. Each of the six FOOD2GATHER teams provided two relevant controversies that have reached media attention in the last ten years. One of the two had to be related to halal food. The analysis of the controversies has been conducted by identifying issues they tackled, agents they involved, (public) spaces and situations in which controversies took place and what they produced. A comparative analysis of relevant variables related to migrations, such as the geopolitical position of the countries, organization of reception and food provision, has been conducted as well. The six countries included in the study have different traditions related to migration and have been exposed to the “migrants’ crisis” in different ways. These differences are reflected in the proposed controversies. However, some common traits tend to emerge and reveal power relationships within societies that are different or shared by the countries involved in the project. We show that these power relationships particularly deal with the right to food, citizens’ commitment, identity, the place of religion, animal welfare and political issues. Our study indicates that analysing controversies adds an important dimension to the study of foodscapes. Food controversies that reach the media attention are seldom something migrants have brought up themselves. The migrants’ representation in the media based on food controversies indicated that migrants are given little opportunity to negotiating values and practices, as norms about “the right” quantity and quality of food tend to reproduce the food model of the country they migrate to, also when there is a “positive” focus on ethnic business. To better understand these dynamics, we propose the concept of “food encounters” and illustrate how the type of food encounters can play a role in how foodscapes could evolve or even emerge.
Aujourd'hui en Aquitaine proliferent toutes sortes de mise en scenes des productions agro-ali... more Aujourd'hui en Aquitaine proliferent toutes sortes de mise en scenes des productions agro-alimentaires regionales sous la forme de foires, salons gastronomiques, marches ou les “ produits de terroir ” sont mis a l'honneur. Cette region touristique jouit aujourd'hui d'une notoriete alimentaire meme s'il n'en fut pas toujours ainsi ! Au-dela du sens que l'on peut donner a ce developpement culinaire, l'ethnologue s'interesse aux logiques qui donnent existence a ces produits et aux usages qui en sont faits par differents protagonistes.
Reframing Food Aid. The intervention research Uniterres-Ecoales in Poitou-Charentes and Aquitaine (France)
This paper is based on the intervention research ECOALES (" Empowerment, Comportements Alime... more This paper is based on the intervention research ECOALES (" Empowerment, Comportements Alimentaires et Economie Solidaire "- Empowerment, Food Behaviour and Social Economy) which is led in partnership with the Association Nationale de Developpement des Epiceries Solidaires A.N.D.E.S - National Association for solidarity food stores). This association has set up an innovative short supply channel for fruit, vegetable and eggs, for solidarity grocery recipients. This experience has started in June 2012 in Poitou-Charentes and in November 2012 in Aquitaine. One of the objectives is to increase the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetable among food aid recipients; another one is to support farmers temporarily by buying their products at a sustainable price (thanks to public funding) via a pre-order system. This intervention also includes cooking workshops, visits to farms and special festive events around a chef and farmers, aiming at replacing food in its social, cultural an...
Les mangeurs face aux discours nutritionnels
ISSN 0151-1998National audienceQuel est l'impact des discours nutritionnels sur les comportem... more ISSN 0151-1998National audienceQuel est l'impact des discours nutritionnels sur les comportements alimentaires ? Une équipe d'anthropologues a enquêté auprès de cent personnes en France. Elle souligne la confusion, dans le public, entre information santé et discours publicitaire. Et conclut, par ailleurs, qu'une information nutritionnelle normative n'atteint pas forcément les différentes strates de la population parce qu'elle ne prend pas en compte leur culture, leur environnement et leur situation économique et sociale
Eating at School in France: An Anthropological Analysis of the Dynamics and Issues Involved in Implementing Public Policy, 1970–2001
Eating Out in Europe, 2003
Vin et Mondialisation : préface
Anthropology of food, 2004
... à la mondialisation du produit vin et au soi-disant clivage entre le Nouveau Monde et la Vi... more ... à la mondialisation du produit vin et au soi-disant clivage entre le Nouveau Monde et la Vieille Europe, la ... Chantal Crenn, Marion Demossier and Isabelle Téchoueyres, « Vin et Mondialisation : préface », Anthropology of food [Online], 3 | December 2004, Online since 01 ...
Jean Pierre Poulain et Edmond Neirinck, Histoire de la cuisine et des cuisiniers. Techniques culinaires et pratiques de table, en France, du Moyen Âge à nos jours
Anthropology of food, 2005
2The major characteristic of the work is the complementary approach by authors who combine discip... more 2The major characteristic of the work is the complementary approach by authors who combine disciplines: JP Poulain is an anthropo sociologist, professor in the sociology department and director of the Centre d'Étude du Tourisme et des Industries de l'Accueil at the university ...
Research / ethics environment in social and human food sciences: debates, constraints, limits and lessons
Anthropology of food, 2016
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understa... more Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination. (People) make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Preamble The set of questions posed to me by the editors of this issue of Ant...
Local heritage to singularize a wine terroir: the example of pays Foyen (Gironde, France)
Anthropology of food, 2007
Le vin, enjeu culturel et economique, se trouve aujourd’hui au cœur de dynamiques locales œuvrant... more Le vin, enjeu culturel et economique, se trouve aujourd’hui au cœur de dynamiques locales œuvrant a produire de la difference : souvent sous l’impulsion de neoruraux, des elements naturels et d’histoire locale sont selectionnes et mobilises pour recomposer un patrimoine fondateur d’identite, fabriquer une authenticite, et donc legitimer des pratiques. Cet article propose d’observer le phenomene de patrimonialisation afin de comprendre comment les frontieres se sont progressivement resserrees autour d’un vin regional devenu un vin local, a travers l’exemple d’un espace viti-vinicole, le Pays Foyen (Gironde, France). Apres avoir eclaire les tensions theoriques entre global et local, nous nous interessons particulierement au processus de territorialisation et de construction identitaire lie a la mise en valeur du « local » dans le produit.
Migrants’ food habits when returning home (in Bamako, Mali, and Dakar, Senegal)
Anthropology of food, 2010
... 42Members of the family remaining in Senegal or Mali expect their hosts to follow family ... ... more ... 42Members of the family remaining in Senegal or Mali expect their hosts to follow family ... the 'us' - although we will see what in the way of eating in Dakar or Bamako ... In both cities one can find (at different degrees) French, Italian, American, Chinese, Lebanese, Indian ingredients ...
Interview with Martin Caraher
Anthropology of food, 2016
Martin Caraher is a Professor of food and health policy at Centre for Food Policy, Department of ... more Martin Caraher is a Professor of food and health policy at Centre for Food Policy, Department of Sociology , City University of London (cf. http://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/martin-caraher); he has worked for and acted as a consultant to the UK Department of Health, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation. He was a member of the original London Food Board and currently acts as an advisor on food matters to a number of social science research groups across Europe, particularly to...
Produits locaux entre nature et culture : de la ferme voisine au terroir. Entretien avec Laurence Bérard
Anthropology of food, 2005
V.A. : Laurence Berard, vous representez la moitie du celebre duo Berard et Marchenay, dont artic... more V.A. : Laurence Berard, vous representez la moitie du celebre duo Berard et Marchenay, dont articles et ouvrages sur produits de terroir en France sont incontournables, et c’est a ce titre que vous nous accordez un entretien aujourd’hui pour le numero sur les produits alimentaires locaux du journal Anthropology of Food. Alors je commencerais par la traditionnelle question : si je vous dis produits locaux, a quoi pensez-vous ? L.B. : Produits locaux… et pas de produits de terroir… I.T. : Non...
Terroir and Cultural patrimony: reflections on regional cuisines in Aquitaine
Anthropology of food, 2001
2According to some food historians, the notion of Regional Cuisine emerges in the wake of the Fre... more 2According to some food historians, the notion of Regional Cuisine emerges in the wake of the French Revolution (cf.J.Csergo), amidst the question of the building of a Nation. With administrative delimitation appear local diversities in statistics and inventories. What is new is the ...
Local food between nature and culture: from neighbour farm to terroir. Interview of Laurence Bérard
Anthropology of food, 2005
1VA: Laurence Bérard, you stand for one half of the famous Bérard and Marchenay duo whose works o... more 1VA: Laurence Bérard, you stand for one half of the famous Bérard and Marchenay duo whose works on terroir products in France simply cannot be ignored ; this is the reason why you accepted this interview for our AOF issue on local food products. I'll just start with the plain question: ...
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