CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Sarabia Valdez, Andres Felipe |
|---|---|
| Title | The Food We Are Not:How The Gendering Of Global Food Policy Veiled Body Malleability (Bogota 1990-2015) |
| Summary | Development discourse in general is highly dependent on ontological premises that reproduce the belief in human universals, and it has incorporated the promotion and mainstreaming of gender analysis as necessary to reach its vision of a ‘developed’ future. To this end this project investigates food policy as a discursive apparatus that has led to the creation of international institutions and programs that implement this ontology in specific localities. It specifically explores the incorporation of gender perspectives inside global food policy and problematizes it through its materialization in the urban postcolonial institutional landscape of Bogota, Colombia during the past three decades. I focus on the changing inter-institutional arrangements inside the city’s government that develop as a response to the design of city-level policies and their uneasy relation to the biopolitical subjects they are aiming to constitute. I follow discursive formations at both local and global levels, tracing some brief genealogies and contrasting them to elucidate how their ‘friction’ actualizes the global. Following the proposition of Michele Murphy to trace distributed ontologies of reproduction, I extend her thesis to analyze international food policy. Like Murphy, I find life itself tied to the macroeconomy although I suggest it should be also considered how reproduction is tied to microeconomic efficiency. By exposing how these formations utilize women and gender to subjectify life I suggest this should be viewed through the lens of the coloniality of gender, since the global reproduces hegemonic relations into what I call a geopolitics of sex. While the gendering of global food policy veils new malleable corporeities emerging from an increased exposure to molecular intensities, I also suggest that counter-discursive formations have been challenging these hegemonic relations and opening paths toward liberatory futurities. |
| Supervisor | Sandor, Judit |
| Department | Gender Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/sarabia_andres.pdf |
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