Organization profile

This research hotbed aims to put into dialogue various theoretical and methodological perspectives of social studies of science, health and food to understand and critically analyze complex relationships and negotiations -between production of scientific knowledge, definition of food problems, design and implementation of public policies in this regard, and construction of food subjectivities.

From an interdisciplinary perspective, we understand that the conception and management of food problems are the result of complex social, cultural and economic processes involving various actors, interests and a wide range of negotiations at local and international level. From this perspective, we want to advance in the understanding of the tensions, past and current, when defining the relations between food, science, health and public policy and, in general, how science and social and political orders are co-produced. With this we aim to look for viable and inclusive alternatives in the way nutritional problems are conceived and food health is managed.

Research Lines:

• Production, circulation and appropriation of nutrition/food knowledge.
• Construction, application and political and social effects of dietary and nutritional standards and norms. • Building authority and links with the State by food experts and the institutions they represent (local and international).
• The historical transformations of the relationships between food, health, economy and politics. • Negotiations, tensions and power relations in the definition of food/nutritional problems and in the proposed solutions.
• Relationships between discourses and nutritional practices and representations of the population in terms of race, gender and class.
• Real scope, contingencies, disparities and resistances of government technologies deployed to solve food/nutritional problems.
• Effects of the application of nutritional knowledge on the identities, subjectivities and eating behaviors of populations.
• Effects of urban transformations on the food and food supply of large cities in Latin America.
• The normative and regulatory intervention of the State in food production, trade and standardization.

Objectives:

1. Bring together undergraduate and postgraduate students from different programs of the University of Rosario (especially the Schools of Medicine and the School of Human Sciences) who are interested in these topics.
2. Review and critically analyze relevant literature on these topics.
3. To accompany and support the development of research projects of undergraduate and postgraduate students of the university interested in these topics.
4. Develop interpretative theoretical frameworks and innovative methodologies to address these issues.

Organization profile

This research hotbed aims to put into dialogue various theoretical and methodological perspectives of social studies of science, health and food to understand and critically analyze complex relationships and negotiations -between production of scientific knowledge, definition of food problems, design and implementation of public policies in this regard, and construction of food subjectivities.

From an interdisciplinary perspective, we understand that the conception and management of food problems are the result of complex social, cultural and economic processes involving various actors, interests and a wide range of negotiations at local and international level. From this perspective, we want to advance in the understanding of the tensions, past and current, when defining the relations between food, science, health and public policy and, in general, how science and social and political orders are co-produced. With this we aim to look for viable and inclusive alternatives in the way nutritional problems are conceived and food health is managed.

Research Lines:

• Production, circulation and appropriation of nutrition/food knowledge.
• Construction, application and political and social effects of dietary and nutritional standards and norms. • Building authority and links with the State by food experts and the institutions they represent (local and international).
• The historical transformations of the relationships between food, health, economy and politics. • Negotiations, tensions and power relations in the definition of food/nutritional problems and in the proposed solutions.
• Relationships between discourses and nutritional practices and representations of the population in terms of race, gender and class.
• Real scope, contingencies, disparities and resistances of government technologies deployed to solve food/nutritional problems.
• Effects of the application of nutritional knowledge on the identities, subjectivities and eating behaviors of populations.
• Effects of urban transformations on the food and food supply of large cities in Latin America.
• The normative and regulatory intervention of the State in food production, trade and standardization.

Objectives:

1. Bring together undergraduate and postgraduate students from different programs of the University of Rosario (especially the Schools of Medicine and the School of Human Sciences) who are interested in these topics.
2. Review and critically analyze relevant literature on these topics.
3. To accompany and support the development of research projects of undergraduate and postgraduate students of the university interested in these topics.
4. Develop interpretative theoretical frameworks and innovative methodologies to address these issues.