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Modern Chinese Foodways (2025)
Book
Fu, J.-C., King, M. T., & Klein, J. A. (Eds.). (2025). Modern Chinese Foodways. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15518.001.0001

An edited collection that explores the multifaceted experiences of Chinese culinary modernity both within and outside of mainland China from the mid-19th century to present. Modern Chinese Foodways defines some of the major processes by which Chinese... Read More about Modern Chinese Foodways.

Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Jaspars, S., & Kuol, L. B. D. (2025). Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction. Disasters, 49(1), Article e12669. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12669

Over the past decade, famine and food insecurity have increased, yet there have been few articles with a critical analysis of their social and political dynamics. This special issue of Disasters aims to revive such analysis and to provide new insight... Read More about Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction.

Food insecurity, xenophobia, and political legitimacy: exploring the links in post-COVID-19 South Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Dlamini, K. T., & Hull, E. (2025). Food insecurity, xenophobia, and political legitimacy: exploring the links in post-COVID-19 South Africa. Disasters, 49(1), Article e12667. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12667

Food insecurity in South Africa was critical prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, but the problem deepened quickly during the pandemic when government controls caused job losses, a food supply collapse, and escalating hunger. The food and fuel price hikes... Read More about Food insecurity, xenophobia, and political legitimacy: exploring the links in post-COVID-19 South Africa.

Sudan's catastrophe: the role of changing dynamics of food and power in the Gezira agricultural scheme (2024)
Journal Article
Elkreem, T. A., & Jaspars, S. (2025). Sudan's catastrophe: the role of changing dynamics of food and power in the Gezira agricultural scheme. Disasters, 49(1), Article e12663. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12663

This article explores the role of historical, political, and economic processes in understanding war and famine in Sudan after 2023. The focus is on Al‐Gezira, the site of Sudan's largest agricultural scheme. Using ethnography, interviews, and docume... Read More about Sudan's catastrophe: the role of changing dynamics of food and power in the Gezira agricultural scheme.

Translator as Researcher: Co-Producing Research on Food-Based Livelihoods in South Africa (2024)
Book Chapter
Dlamini, K. T., & Hull, E. (in press). Translator as Researcher: Co-Producing Research on Food-Based Livelihoods in South Africa. In Sage Research Methods Cases: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research. Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529690576

This case is based on a project in rural South Africa investigating food access and livelihoods after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research entailed remote collaboration between an anthropologist and a locally based translator. By explainin... Read More about Translator as Researcher: Co-Producing Research on Food-Based Livelihoods in South Africa.

Rhythms of Mobility: How (Im)Mobility Shapes Rural Food Retail Practices in South Africa (2023)
Book Chapter
Hull, E. (2023). Rhythms of Mobility: How (Im)Mobility Shapes Rural Food Retail Practices in South Africa. In D. E. Bender, & S. Cinotto (Eds.), Food Mobilities: Making World Cuisines. University of Toronto Press

Somalia’s evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity (2023)
Journal Article
Jaspars, S., Majid, N., & Adan, G. (2023). Somalia’s evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 61(3), 343-366. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X23000071

Somalia has a long history of famine and humanitarian crisis. This article focuses on the years 2008–2020, during which governance and aid practices changed substantially and which include three crisis periods. The article examines whether and how go... Read More about Somalia’s evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity.

Informal Retailers: A Missed Opportunity for Tackling Food Insecurity in South Africa’s Covid-19 Response (2023)
Digital Artefact
Hull, E., & Masinga, S. Informal Retailers: A Missed Opportunity for Tackling Food Insecurity in South Africa’s Covid-19 Response. [Blog post]

Review: What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make, by Michael J. Hathaway, foreword by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (2023)
Journal Article
Klein, J. A. Review: What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make, by Michael J. Hathaway, foreword by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, 23(2), 104-105. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.2.104

Food Cultures (2022)
Book Chapter
Klein, J. A., Berlin, S., Wang, C. Y., & Thomason, E. (2022). Food Cultures. In S. Kehoe, & G. Wielander (Eds.), Cultural China 2021: The Contemporary China Centre Review (41-55). University of Westminster Press. https://doi.org/10.16997/book69.d

The four pieces in this chapter all revolve around the changing relationship to basic food stuff traditional associated with backwardness and deprivation in the context of a search for the “authentic” by urban middle classes. Jakob Klein deals with t... Read More about Food Cultures.

Land reform in South Africa is failing: Ignoring the realities of rural life plays a part (2022)
Digital Artefact
Hull, E. Land reform in South Africa is failing: Ignoring the realities of rural life plays a part

Mobility, marriage decline, and the ceremonial economy: socio-cultural factors influencing farming in South Africa and implications for land reform (2022)
Journal Article
Hornby, D., & Hull, E. (2023). Mobility, marriage decline, and the ceremonial economy: socio-cultural factors influencing farming in South Africa and implications for land reform. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(7), 2539-2559. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2101098

This article reviews the literature on the social dynamics influencing small-scale agriculture in South Africa. These include three primary factors: the trans-local character of livelihoods; the role of social hierarchies of gender, age and marital s... Read More about Mobility, marriage decline, and the ceremonial economy: socio-cultural factors influencing farming in South Africa and implications for land reform.

The Decline of the Labor Party in Israel (2022)
Journal Article
Shindler, C. (2022). The Decline of the Labor Party in Israel. Bustan : Middle East book review, 13(1), 55-80. https://doi.org/10.5325/bustan.13.1.0055

The decline of the Labor Party is one of the great mysteries of Israeli politics. From achieving forty-seven seats in the 1981 election, it attained a mere seven seats in the March 2021 election. From being the leading party in the electoral firmamen... Read More about The Decline of the Labor Party in Israel.

Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Stewart, S., & Sanders, C. (2023). Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221100359

The UK government’s Everyone In scheme, announced in March 2020, required local authorities to temporarily house all homeless individuals in their area regardless of immigration status. In providing support through safe and secure accommodation, Ever... Read More about Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From culinary modernism to culinary cosmopolitanism: the changing topography of Beijing’s transnational foodscape (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, C. (2023). From culinary modernism to culinary cosmopolitanism: the changing topography of Beijing’s transnational foodscape. Food, Culture & Society, 26(3), 775-792. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2046990

In the early 1990s, foreign foods were reintroduced into the everyday life of ordinary people in Beijing. As the city ascends to the top on the global hierarchy of urban places, its transnational food practices have evolved drastically. Proposing “co... Read More about From culinary modernism to culinary cosmopolitanism: the changing topography of Beijing’s transnational foodscape.

Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses (2022)
Journal Article
Graf, K. (2022). Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(2), 577-594. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13708

In this article, I explore how cooking knowledge is constituted and show that a sense of taste is central to it. Drawing on the thick description of domestic couscous preparation in Marrakech, Morocco, I treat taste both as a multisensory form of kno... Read More about Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses.

Special issue introduction: from nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss legacy and the study of contemporary foodways (2020)
Journal Article
Graf, K., & Mescoli, E. (2020). Special issue introduction: from nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss legacy and the study of contemporary foodways. Food, Culture & Society, 23(4), 465-471. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2020.1773692

This introduction and special issue explores the legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss for the study of contemporary foodways. We revisit Lévi-Strauss’ structural writing about food through different angles. To begin with, based on our ethnographic research... Read More about Special issue introduction: from nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss legacy and the study of contemporary foodways.

Darfuri Journeys to Europe: Causes, Risks and Humanitarian Abandonment (2020)
Journal Article
Jaspars, S., Buchanan‐Smith, M., & Adam Abdul‐Jalil, M. (2021). Darfuri Journeys to Europe: Causes, Risks and Humanitarian Abandonment. International Migration Review, 59(3), 63-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12723

Darfuris were amongst the thousands of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe in 2014, thus becoming part of Europe’s so-called “refugee crisis”. Rather than creating a crisis in Europe, however, their flight reflects a new phase in Darfur’s humani... Read More about Darfuri Journeys to Europe: Causes, Risks and Humanitarian Abandonment.

Ambivalent Regionalism and the Promotion of a New National Staple Food: Reinventing Potatoes in Inner Mongolia and Yunnan (2020)
Journal Article
Klein, J. A. (in press). Ambivalent Regionalism and the Promotion of a New National Staple Food: Reinventing Potatoes in Inner Mongolia and Yunnan. Global Food History, 6(2), 143-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/20549547.2020.1771064

This article addresses the relationship between national, regional, and local dimensions of Chinese culinary cultures and identities through the prism of the potato. Specifically, I explore how the central government’s strategy to transform the potat... Read More about Ambivalent Regionalism and the Promotion of a New National Staple Food: Reinventing Potatoes in Inner Mongolia and Yunnan.

Transformations of Chinese Cuisines (2020)
Book Chapter
Klein, J. A. (2020). Transformations of Chinese Cuisines. In K. Latham (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society (376-394). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315180243-29

This chapter presents an overview of the English-language literature on Chinese cuisines in the People’s Republic. The transformation of cuisines in post-Mao China can be described in terms of a transition from state to market and from scarcity to ch... Read More about Transformations of Chinese Cuisines.