Anthropocene Ecologies of Food

Simon C. Estok is a full professor and Senior Research Fellow at Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea’s first and oldest university) and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Estok teaches literary theory, ecocriticism, and Shakespearean literature. S. Susan Deborah, an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at MES College of Arts and Commerce, Goa, West India, is the co-editor of Ecodocumentaries: Critical Essays (2016), Ecocultural Ethics: Critical Essays (2017), and Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations (2014). Rayson K. Alex, an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, is the secretary of tiNai and the founder and co-director of tiNai Ecofilm Festival.

Introduction: Food Systems and Ecological Well-Being – S. Susan Deborah

Part I: Bioregion, Diversity, Food






Rice and the Anthropocene in the Southern Indian Peninsula - Nirmal Selvamony



The Taste of Place: Food, Ecology, and Culture in Kodagu - Subarna De



This Compost! India and the History of Global Organic Farming - Mart A. Stewart
Part II: Intercultural Food Practices




Environmental Food Documentaries: From Fast Food Nation to a Popular Selection of Top 20 YouTube Videos - Pat Brereton





Bacalhau in England and Goa: A Case Study of Economy, Ecology, and the Assignation of Value in the Global South, circa 1472–2019 - William Spates



The Future of Food: Trajectories in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl - Young-hyun Lee



Metaphors and Metonymies of Food in Four Asian Texts - Chitra Sankaran
Part C: Crises, Disintegration, Food




Agrarian Distress and Food Sovereignty in the Anthropocene: A Reading of Namita Waikar’s The Long March - P. Rajitha Venugopal



Dalit Food, Ecology, and Resistance - Samuel Moses Srinivas Kuntam

Afterword: Toward Shifts in Global Food Systems - Simon C. Estok