Course Info: CSI-0223
| Course | CSI-0223 Looking at Food in South Asia |
| Long Title | "'You are what you eat?'": Critically Examining Food, Consumption, and Environment in the Contexts of South Asian Modernity, Culture and Politics" |
| Term | 2018S |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 103 on M,W from 1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | Shakuntala Ray |
| Capacity | 25 |
| Available | 13 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Power, Community and Social Justice |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | Students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. |
| Description | This course examined how questions of food and consumption have impacted and interacted with issues of South Asian modernity, culture, gender, society and politics in complex ways. We connected how the politics of taste have come to be governed by historical processes of human-generated environmental changes and colonialism wherein food operates as a site of paradox and conflict, resistance and alterity. We covered questions that relate food to national identity, to environment, to systems of oppression, to ideas of ethnicity and migration among other things. Apart from employing critical readings from anthropological, sociological, political economy works etc., we also explored how food gets represented in contemporary films, stories, cookbooks, media and visual arts from the region and South Asian diaspora. |