BLACKNESS, GENDER AND FOOD IN PANDEMIC CONTEXT: FIELD-CITY RELATIONS

Abstract

This article propose to think about food from an ethnic-racial and gender perspective based on the field-city relations in the contemporary context of crisis introduced by the action of the new Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Therefore, a dialogue is presented between Social and Agrarian Sciences, focused in Food Anthropology and Agroecology. It is interested to reflect on biodiversity of food as a health promotion factor at a time of collective illness and threat to human lives, as well thinking about differentiated access to this kind of food in view of sieves such as ethnic-racial belonging and gender relations. From experiences of production and consumption of agroecological food, the meanings attributed to the act of eating are analysed in parallel to the meanings attributed to the act of produce and transform raw materials into food. At last, light is shed on different experiences that signal possibilities of transformation of significance of food and in the countryside-city food circuits.