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International relations and global development just got a whole lot easier. Through the conscious choice and purchase of the "right" kind of coffee, bottled water, or t-shirt, now available at one's local supermarket, the caring relationalities of development of the "fair trade" kind can quite easily be put into practice. For some, these practices provide the space for people's "everyday" moralities let loose through their ordinary choices that then works to globalize a form of responsibility toward poor Others (Barnett, Cloke, Clarke and Malpass 2011). Here, the weekly grocery shopping has morphed into the first line of defense of poor farmers' livelihoods, clean water, women's empowerment, and international development. With Brand Aid (Richey and Ponte 2011), with its celebrity- and corporate-brand-drenched marketing campaigns, this "causumerism" has been taken to the extreme. Now, through the purchase of Product (RED)-labeled commodities, it is instead the very real case that saving the very lives of poor, Aids-stricken Africans just got a whole lot easier. Put in rather stark, and exceedingly un-ironic and unproblematic terms, in buying a Product (RED) iPod, "you have a new iPod and you helped save a person's life." Over time, however, the Product (RED) campaign has morphed slightly and narrowed the advertised scope of whom it saves. Now, RED provides its drugs predominantly to pregnant HIV-infected mothers in Africa in order to halt the spread of HIV to newborn children designed to usher in an "Aids-free generation" by 2015 (Joinred.org 2012). Thus, in the contemporary incarnation of Product (RED), "a person's life" has taken on more specific meanings and materialities in the even more stable forms of pregnant mothers and children, while the mechanisms of how they are "saved" have remained the same. Adapted from the source document.

1. Food transgressions : ethics, governance and geographies / Michael K. Goodman and Colin Sage -- 2. Pathways of transformation or transgression? Power relations, ethical space and labour rights in Kenyan agri-food value chains / Valerie Nelson. [et al.] -- 3. Of red herrings and immutabilities : rethinking Fairtrade's ethics of relationality among cocoa producers / Amanda Berlan and Catherine Dolan -- 4. Greather than the sum of the parts? Unpacking ethics of care within a community supported agriculture scheme / Rosie Cox. [et al.] -- 5. Polite transgression? Pleasure as economic device and ethical stance in slow food / Federica Davolio and Roberta Sassatelli -- 6. Eating powerful transgressions : (re)assessing the spaces and ethics of organic food in the UK / Michael K. Goodman -- 7. Transgressing retail : supermarkets, liminoid power and the metabolic rift / Jane Dixon, Libby Hattersley and Bronwyn Isaacs -- 8. Making meat collectivities : entanglements of geneticisation, integration and contestation in livestock breeding / Lewis Holloway. [et al.] -- 9. Making and un-making meat : cultural boundaries, environmental thresholds and dietary transgressions / Colin Sage -- 10. Knowing brand wales : agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance / Carla De Laurentis and Philip Cooke -- 11. Food for poorer people : conventional and 'alternative' transgressions? / Martin Caraher and Elizabeth Dowler.

Reconnecting so-called alternative food geographies back to the mainstream food system - especially in light of the discursive and material 'transgressions' currently happening between alternative and conventional food networks, this volume critically interrogates and evaluates what stands for 'food politics' in these spaces of transgression now and in the near future and addresses questions such as: What constitutes 'alternative' food politics specifically and food politics more generally when organic and other 'quality' foods have become mainstreamed? What has been the contribution so far of an 'alternative food movement' and its potential to leverage further progressive change and/or make further inroads into conventional systems? What are the empirical and theoretical bases for understanding the established and growing 'transgressions' between conventional and alternative food networks? Offering a better understanding of the evolving position of the corporate food system vis a vis alternative food networks, this book considers the prospects for economic, social, cultural and material transformations led by an increasingly powerful and legitimated alternative food network.--Publisher's website.

Comida e cultura digital estão mutuamente implicadas nos processos contemporâneos da produção de conhecimento e da contestação de poder ao redor do mundo. Nossa introdução e os artigos nesta edição especial do European Journal of Cultural Studies buscam traçar distinções, paralelos e sobreposições entre a comida e o digital para oferecer insights críticos sobre as capacidades, paradoxos e impactos da cultura alimentar digital sobre a vida cotidiana. Fazemos uma série de questões fundamentalmente focadas em questões de poder que sinalizam uma questão crucial para a (re)produção e circulação de desigualdade na ligação entre a comida e o digital. Para nós e para os autores aqui, Estudos Culturais é um solo particularmente fértil para se analisar a comida digital precisamente devido ao compromisso da disciplina em fazer a crítica do poder e da desigualdade e sua subsequente capacidade para esclarecer a política da comida digital cotidiana e seus impactos sociais, culturais e éticos. Este artigo apresenta e destaca questões essenciais – e introduz conceitos relacionados e debates teóricos – que guiam a agenda desta pesquisa. Além disso, abordamos as formas como os artigos desta edição se conectam à cultura alimentar digital e ao poder após a COVID-19. Concluímos com o sumário dos artigos desta edição e suas contribuições para a pesquisa sobre cultura alimentar digital e estudos culturais de forma mais ampla.

ABSTRACTThroughout the world, 785 million people lack a basic drinking‐water service and at least 2 billion people consume contaminated drinking water. At the same time, numerous global water charities fronted by 'caring', politicized celebrity figures — dubbed the 'high priests' of global development by the authors of this article — have sought to 'solve' inequalities in access to clean water through market‐based solutions and charity donations. This article engages with the fields of critical social theory, political theology, political ecology and celebrity studies to analyse the interrelationship between capitalism and religion, to interrogate the drivers of international development, and to historically situate the work of celebrity‐led water charities and the growing role of these 'high priests'. It takes the case of Matt Damon's Water.org to examine the increasingly religious nature of these neoliberalized charity processes, and outlines the main elements of what the authors term a contemporary political economy of sacrifice. They argue that this results in charities that, rather than reducing inequalities, actually reproduce, normalize and legitimize the very system and exploitative relations that are responsible for these inequalities and environmental problems in the first place, while scattered and localized fixes sustain the illusion that things are getting better.

Throughout the world, 785 million people lack a basic drinking-water service and at least 2 billion people consume contaminated drinking water. At the same time, numerous global water charities fronted by 'caring', politicized celebrity figures — dubbed the 'high priests' of global development by the authors of this article — have sought to 'solve' inequalities in access to clean water through market-based solutions and charity donations. This article engages with the fields of critical social theory, political theology, political ecology and celebrity studies to analyse the interrelationship between capitalism and religion, to interrogate the drivers of international development, and to historically situate the work of celebrity-led water charities and the growing role of these 'high priests'. It takes the case of Matt Damon's Water.org to examine the increasingly religious nature of these neoliberalized charity processes, and outlines the main elements of what the authors term a contemporary political economy of sacrifice. They argue that this results in charities that, rather than reducing inequalities, actually reproduce, normalize and legitimize the very system and exploitative relations that are responsible for these inequalities and environmental problems in the first place, while scattered and localized fixes sustain the illusion that things are getting better.

Food and digital culture are mutually implicated in contemporary processes of knowledge production and power contestation around the world. Our introduction and the papers in this special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies seek to draw out the distinctions, parallels and overlaps across food and the digital to offer critical insights into digital food culture's capacities, paradoxes and impacts on everyday life. We ask a series of questions fundamentally focused on issues of power that signal a critical concern for the (re)production and circulation of inequality within the food and digital nexus. For us and the authors here, Cultural Studies is particularly fertile ground from which to analyse digital food culture precisely because of the discipline's commitment to critiquing power and inequality and its subsequent capacity to illuminate everyday digital food politics and their social, cultural and ethical impacts. This article presents and highlights key questions—and introduces related concepts and theoretical debates—that drive this research agenda. In addition, we address the ways the issue's papers connect to digital food culture and power after COVID-19. We conclude with a summary of the articles in the issue and their contributions to digital food culture research and cultural studies more broadly.