Scott Alves Barton, ‘Beyond the Columbian Exchange’
Wednesday 28 May 2025
Part of the Critical Food Studies Network's events
Speaker: Scott Alves Barton, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies at University of Notre Dame, USA
A talk on African Diaspora culinary cultural retentions as a cornerstone of the politics of identity, and in respect to stewardship of the environment, the planet and to each other. This material is broadly drawn from Scott’s research on the intersectional relationship between sacred and secular foodways in Afro-Brazilian communities in the northeastern regions of Brazil. He has also placed my research in conversation with Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical, ‘care for our common home’, or Laudato Si.SS
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