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Embracing the Elephant

Embracing the Elephant IN RESPONSE Charlotte Biltekoff, University of California, Davis the experience of these authors at the interface of attention to our unexamined assumptions, negative biases, food studies and the food industry suggests the risks of both and foregone conclusions. As Evans argues, treating the large engaging and not engaging in these sorts of collaborations. corporations that dominate the food system as legitimate The risks of engaging are as clear to me viscerally, from my objects of social scientific inquiry and cultural analysis, open- own experience working at the intersection of food studies ing the space for ‘‘empirical encounters’’ with producers, and and food science (a field very closely connected to the food allowing our critical stance to open into intellectual curiosity industry), as they are in the pages of these reflections. Food rather than foreclose it has the potential to have an impact studies scholars who wish to conduct scholarship at this inter- that is, in keeping with the outsized power of these actors section not only have to manage the pragmatic challenges of within the food system, very significant. negotiating bureaucracies, ‘‘power geometries,’’ ethical issues, While neoliberal pressures on academic researchers to seek and asymmetrical expectations around timelines and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Gastronomica University of California Press

Embracing the Elephant

Biltekoff, Charlotte
Gastronomica , Volume 15 (3): 2 – Aug 1, 2015
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University of California Press
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© 2015 by The Regents of the University of California
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1529-3262
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1533-8622
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10.1525/gfc.2015.15.3.59
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IN RESPONSE Charlotte Biltekoff, University of California, Davis the experience of these authors at the interface of attention to our unexamined assumptions, negative biases, food studies and the food industry suggests the risks of both and foregone conclusions. As Evans argues, treating the large engaging and not engaging in these sorts of collaborations. corporations that dominate the food system as legitimate The risks of engaging are as clear to me viscerally, from my objects of social scientific inquiry and cultural analysis, open- own experience working at the intersection of food studies ing the space for ‘‘empirical encounters’’ with producers, and and food science (a field very closely connected to the food allowing our critical stance to open into intellectual curiosity industry), as they are in the pages of these reflections. Food rather than foreclose it has the potential to have an impact studies scholars who wish to conduct scholarship at this inter- that is, in keeping with the outsized power of these actors section not only have to manage the pragmatic challenges of within the food system, very significant. negotiating bureaucracies, ‘‘power geometries,’’ ethical issues, While neoliberal pressures on academic researchers to seek and asymmetrical expectations around timelines and

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Published: Aug 1, 2015

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