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In our introduction to the latest issue of @road_sides @DollyKikon and I argue for an understanding of the term foodways to focus on the ways food needs infrastructure to come into, move, and be in the world: roadsides.net/articles/8888

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Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: roadsides.net/articles/8250

In their contribution to our latest issue, Vanessa Lamb and @zalifung show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border: roadsides.net/articles/8234

Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" roadsides.net/articles/8249

Tuomas Tammisto examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: roadsides.net/articles/8063

In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @mirzalibra10 & @KalzangMarpo examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. Read it here: roadsides.net/articles/8240

@china_geography investigates the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. Read her piece in our new issue on Foodways: roadsides.net/articles/8236

In her contribution to "Foodways," Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold-chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo to suit their own particular understandings of freshness: roadsides.net/articles/8248

In her contribution to Roadsides 014 "Foodways," @fizaa_bukhari recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded local food sovereignty for dependency and how the road built to connect the people of Ishkoman instead dismantled their world. Read her essay here: roadsides.net/articles/8243

In their introduction to our new issue on "Foodways" @matthaeusrest and @DollyKikon argue for an understanding of the term ‘foodways’ to focus on the manner in which food needs infrastructure to come into, move through and be in the world. Read it here: roadsides.net/articles/8888

The new issue of Roadsides on "Foodways", edited by @matthaeusrest & @DollyKikon is online! Check it out on our all-new website: roadsides.net/collections/fo…

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The fantastic new 'Foodways' collection from @road_sides is out! ✨ I'm so grateful to the amazing editorial team @DollyKikon and @matthaeusrest for their hard work and for making this entire issue freely available to everyone. 🔗Explore the collection: roadsides.net/collections/fo…

Over the past months, I was blessed to work with @DollyKikon on the new issue of @road_sides on food and infrastructure. Over the next days, we'll publish all the fantastic contributions to "Foodways" - check it out on our all-new website: roadsides.net/collections/fo…

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Nikolaos Olma and Janine Hauer ask how infrastructures become instruments of slow violence in their introduction to the latest issue of roadsides. Out now!

@wordspinster @DollyKikon @road_sides Hi Debbie! Yes, I'm currently commuting between the farm and Fribourg

@matthaeusrest @DollyKikon @road_sides Hi Matthaeus, so you're in Fribourg now? And still into cows?

Together with @DollyKikon I'm editing the fall issue of @road_sides tentatively titled "Foodways." You can find the call for papers here: roadsides.net/call-for-paper…