Between Commerce and Culture: Opposing Discourses on (post-)Anthropocene Food Systems



主題簡介

Food has long been a site for sociological theorizing and a means for illuminating human culture. Contemporary food scholars refer to the current time as reflexive food modernity to try and capture a state of rapid change in which eaters are compelled to reflect on the personal and social implications of their diets. This is entangled with a concomitant destructuration of eating models, what has been referred to as “gastro-anomie”. With the advent of environmentalism and the emergence of the Anthropocene, theorizing has begun to increasingly address food systems, which are now recognized as the greatest drivers of environmental change and Anthropocene crises. A “Great Food Transformation” is proposed by leading scholars and global institutions as a means to ensure sustainability. Within a productivist paradigm, a new alternative protein sector delivers “farm-free” food and offers tech-heavy and patent-laden scalable solutions wrapped in promissory narratives of a better future. By contrast, grouped under the umbrella

of post-productivist approaches, local and grass-roots food movements propose farm-to-fork strategies that emphasize the holistic and socio-ecological nature of food production, mobilizing motives associated with a better past. Both approaches seek to overcome the Anthropocene crises by proposing design principles and frameworks for (post-)Anthropocene food systems. I propose to unsettle the involved discourses by drawing on my research on edible insects.


講者簡介

德／英籍的金海天自2014年起定居台灣，於2023年取得東華大學自然資源與環境學系的博士學位，目前是臺灣國家科學及技術委員會人文社會科學研究中心的博士後研究人員，主要從事替代蛋白質、可食用昆蟲及食物系的研究。他是臺灣食用昆蟲產業協會的會員，在花蓮與人共同創辦了「蟋餐廳」，旨在探索蟋蟀的養殖、如何烹調蟋蟀，以及食用蟋蟀的社會演變過程。他相當關注永續食物的論述，如食物還原論、分子食物及加工食品等概念，以及視食物為一種無形的文化遺產，能夠將食用者與社群、生態系、傳統緊密連結。閒暇之餘，他會耕耘位在台灣東海岸的家 “Home 2”，在這裡實行他的自耕農場計畫，他和夥伴目前在這裡種植了超過30種食用植物，也飼養了蟋蟀、2隻矮種雞、6隻蘆丁雞、7隻貓、1條狗和一些魚，並且在他的部落格 “Paradigm Lost” 發表實驗性和創意寫作。（來訪日期：2024.09-2025.12）