Revolution is the way you eat: exemplification among left radical activists in Denmark and in anthropology

Krøijer, Stine

doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12167

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“…For example, left radical activists in Denmark, disillusioned with state politics, believe revolution begins in how activists eat. Their foraging begins in dumpsters, which is designed to subvert the wastes and exploitations of capitalist food production (Kroijer 2015). 9.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating Wild: Hosting the Food Heritage of Palestine

Meneley

2021

PoLAR

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This article examines the strategic use of an event of hospitality celebrating the Wild Foods of Palestine as part of a form of fertile activism. Artist Mirna Bamieh presented the dinner as a “live art” event where the positive power of food and Palestinian culinary distinction was highlighted more than victimhood. In a moment of pleasurable pedagogy, the guests learned about the preservation of knowledge about foraging precious wild plants and their preparation. They enjoyed traditional and innovative spins on Palestinian cuisine, absorbing the wild tastes of the land. By eliciting embodied responses, a moment of pleasurable convivial pedagogy was produced to inspire the guests to engage with activism against ongoing dispossession under Israeli settler colonialism. The wild plants themselves and the knowledge of how to process them were envisioned as a type of cultural heritage to be preserved as an archive for potential transformation. The event raised important possibilities for the futures of this particular kind of Palestinian activism: edible, fertile, aesthetic. [wild plants, foraging, cuisine, hospitality, settler colonialism, Palestine/Israel]

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Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating Wild: Hosting the Food Heritage of Palestine

Meneley

2021

PoLAR

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“…To shed light on these questions, I find analytical interest in the idea of lateral examples that inspire, evoke, and set into motion (Højer and Bandak 2015, 7). Let me first draw a comparison to the anthropologist Stine Krøijer's (2015) perspective on exemplification among left-wing radical activists in Northern Europe. Krøijer finds that activist acts such as demonstrations or dumpster diving figure as examples of and for the future (Krøijer 2015, 79).…”

Section: Manifesting Sisters Hopementioning

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What if Imagination Were Real?

Ejrnæs¹

2021

JEA

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This article explores extremity in performance art from the perspective of an insider. The article contributes with ethnographic insights on liminality and lived experience in performance art, which is still an unexplored field of anthropological study. It investigates how the Copenhagen-based performance group called Sisters Hope intentionally evoke examples of (and for) a future Sensuous Society. It argues that framing is key to what Sisters Hope examples evoke and whether they ‘work’ as intended; as transformative counterparts to ‘the outside world’. While extremity may take on the appearance of shocking contrasts, it is also emphasized as a matter of blurry boundaries in the selected performance art examples. In this context, extremity is cast as radical risk and potentiality that shake or transform experienced reality. The paper argues that Sisters Hope participants navigate in what if modes where sensations in the present and hopes for the future overlap in utopian performatives here and now. Through engagement with performance art examples over time, pretend play can transform into experienced authenticity, and this may eventually reverse experiences of what is ordinary and extreme for the immersed participant. The paper ends with a contemplation on whether the transformative impact of performance art examples is limited by societal fear of the unknown.

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“…It is worth pointing out explicitly here too that while the activities of the people discussed here are part of cobbling together a living, they are also part of embodied self-making practices that are increasingly coming to define a form of quotidian lived activism. I am inspired here by another example of creating an honorable self through everyday activism, Kroijer’s Danish left radical activists who choose urban foraging (including dumpster diving) which becomes a way of embodying their opposition to capitalism, an honorable, exemplary “style” (Kroijer, 2015). I explore Palestinian inventive, artistic engagements with agriculture and food which express their vulnerability, but also attempt to counter it in ways that produce lives that are anything but bare.…”

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Hope in the ruins: Seeds, plants, and possibilities of regeneration

Meneley

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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As space in the West Bank is increasingly threatened, Palestinians are turning to agro-activism to reclaim it. Alongside the established olive activism, there has been a flourishing of generative projects by which my interlocutors attempt to reclaim their space from the environmental damages of the ongoing occupation. I situate these regenerative practices in anthropological discourses about imperial ruins and the blasted landscapes of capitalist ruins. In Palestine, the debris of Israeli military incursions and the ruination of the environment with “security” infrastructures like the Wall produce ongoing occupation ruins. However, as in Tsing’s work—where ruins are presented as productive of new possibilities—here, too, hope underpins my interlocutors’ projects of planting, saving, and regenerating seeds. Their projects involve reclaiming nature through heritage seeds, eco-farming initiatives, farming cooperatives, and food circulation initiatives, thereby encouraging Palestinian food reclamation. Through their activism, Palestinians regenerate a sense of value in themselves and their futures as they attempt to reclaim their landscapes in an embodied way, rather than giving in to ruination.

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Revolution is the way you eat: exemplification among left radical activists in Denmark and in anthropology

Cited by 11 publications

References 43 publications

Eating Wild: Hosting the Food Heritage of Palestine

Eating Wild: Hosting the Food Heritage of Palestine

What if Imagination Were Real?

Hope in the ruins: Seeds, plants, and possibilities of regeneration

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