This paper adopts a material‐semiotic approach to explore the multiple ontologies of “freshness” as quality food. The analysis is based on fieldwork in UK and Portugal, with particular emphasis fish, poultry, fruit vegetables. Using evidence from archival research, ethnographic observation interviews food businesses (including major retailers their suppliers) plus qualitative household‐level research consumers, unsettles conventional view freshness single, stable Rather than approaching...

Through its moving frontiers, the ideology of sustainability prescribes or challenges orderings in imaginary societies. Accordingly, leads to obvious struggles between different systems representations worldwide, and temporal orderliness is at core these battles. In this article, I focus on future. Domesticating future by a central element, particular, cultural confrontation ‘West Rest’. Moreover, proves be self-contradictory: one side promotes diversity, but other operates only under...

The Mozambican village of Canhane has been frequently cited as a successful case ‘community development’. This is the result implementation ‘community-based’ tourism venture, which began in 2004. However, this positive image hides conflicting social processes that have caused by emergence ‘untraditional’ modes village. article shows how new perceptions water and forms its control, were an outcome project's ‘benefits’, are shaking up relations Canhane. With profound shortages persisting...

ABSTRACT This article is about the role of tourist moral agency in governing. The affiliation between vacationing and governing illustrated through examination a case study: village Canhane Mozambique. main touristic attribute lies residents' performance society need, seeking outside solutions guidance. Virtuous tourism effect capitalist expansion which ethics, community development, governance are conflated with tourists' consumption. Specifically, commodifying logic that emerges from...

Freshness is a key feature of contemporary food systems, however its industrial production as quality carries adverse consequences. Accordingly, this paper approaches freshness matter concern. Drawing on extensive fieldwork across sites and consumption in the UK Portugal, we identify four enactments freshness. The analysis zooms specific case plastic packaging uses these to consider series questions about realities relationships between them. Since an issue that readily overflows encompass...

Based on fieldwork in the UK and Portugal, this paper considers relationships between cultural analyses of taste embodied activity tasting. As part a wider project multiple ontologies 'freshness', conceptualises as an emergent effect tasting practices. Drawing evidence from series 'tasting events' (where research participants were recorded shopping, cooking eating meal with friends family), explores dimensions concluding that even most personal sensory aspects food involve social dimension...

In this article, I discuss the ways in which infrastructures of statecraft reverse social purpose that they ideologically embody. focus on road EN140 and village Cusseque Southeast Angola. was a long-sought popular aspiration, finally concretised 2010. Since then, it has been promoted, conspicuously by Angolan government national media, as an instrument extending progress, union, equality into rural areas. However, rather than spreading it, helps convert progress field personal quests,...

Tourism has become part of the 'development' agenda. As an agent post-modernity, tourism helps increase commodification what were previously regarded as uncommodified matters social life. Accordingly, is now a tourist commodity in many localities so-called 'South', where tourists turn assume moral consumer style. This paper primarily about (strategic) representations tourist-other protagonist assistance realm I call developmentourism. My argument to large degree empirical, based on two...

Abstract In this article, I narrate an ethnographic storyline that involves forest inhabitants, local politicians, development professionals, and scientific researchers in both representational nonrepresentational worlds of knowing. discuss how why, Angola, making knowledge through relations distance to the forests is crucial for attaining institutional legitimacy over forests. This way acquiring authority influence championed by a broad epistemological tendency address only absent, which...

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Once the last unclaimed solid expanse on Earth, ocean floor has become one of most contested spaces in contemporary geopolitics. The data-imagery produced by technoscience serves as ultimate tool for nations asserting sovereignty this territorial race. This symposium gathers diverse perspectives ongoing expansionist drive seabed, drawing inspiration from Abissal——a film-article featuring Portuguese modern odyssey that symposium’s centerpiece. Aligned with law, strives to render depth visible...

ABSTRACT The Angolan village of Cusseque, established during the country's civil war, lost its military purpose when conflict ended in 2002. village's neighbors assumed that Cusseque's remaining residents would leave; most stayed. They have since fought to legitimize their presence. Fieldwork with Cusseque helps illuminate why they assert merging land—a I call bodyland —through agency honeybees. These men and women exert a compelling body politics, one is subject more‐than‐human agencies...

In this article, my goal is to contribute the debate about relation between sociality and individualization. It under perspective that I discuss subject of conflict as social relationing. Concretely, explore how everyday experiences 'individuals' in an Angolan rural village can neutralize contemporary threats asocialization those same individuals and, turn, promote commonality. refer affective agency present-day Angola ethopolitics conflict. Although approach two subjects, article not...

Interaction is a matter of concern in all human activities. So far, this basic principle tourism has been largely analysed and promoted through the perspective 'the gaze'. In line with long North-Atlantic tradition that values vision over other senses, tourists are too often stereotyped as gazing subjects. article, I present more encompassing way: sensing contend integration virtues such morality cosmopolitanism derives considerably from deliberate inclusion sensory activity. These best...

Abstract Doing research on fishery commodities in Portugal led us to an enigma: for a dead fish be fresco (fresh) it must alive. This paradox manifests at popular, commercial, and legal level. It denotes the interruption of difference between being alive commodity form. In Portugal, we suggest, commercialization peixe (fresh fish) is based production consumption edible ‘zombis’: seafood corpses technologically symbolically crafted as undead. An open concept, ‘edible zombis’ part experimental...