“Don’t pack a pest”: parts, wholes, and the porosity of food borders
Food retailers, restaurateurs and transnational families rely on continual border-crossings for the global circulation of foodstuffs. Those crossings are highly regulated. Not everything gets in. This paper provides an overview of how food safety is (unevenly) enacted at U.S. ports of entry. Where g...
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| description | Food retailers, restaurateurs and transnational families rely on continual border-crossings for the global circulation of foodstuffs. Those crossings are highly regulated. Not everything gets in. This paper provides an overview of how food safety is (unevenly) enacted at U.S. ports of entry. Where government regulators and enforcement agents perceive in certain foods danger of adulteration or contamination, importers and producers also experience threat to customary practices of foodmaking, provisioning and commerce. Synecdochic, part-for-whole, reasoning guides food journeys and helps determine the fate of perishable foods as they attempt to cross semi-permeable thresholds that delineate and connect nation-states, and that make possible, even as they also restrict, the flow of international trade. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1303672022-10-02T03:19:06Z “Don’t pack a pest”: parts, wholes, and the porosity of food borders Paxson, Heather Anne Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Anthropology Food retailers, restaurateurs and transnational families rely on continual border-crossings for the global circulation of foodstuffs. Those crossings are highly regulated. Not everything gets in. This paper provides an overview of how food safety is (unevenly) enacted at U.S. ports of entry. Where government regulators and enforcement agents perceive in certain foods danger of adulteration or contamination, importers and producers also experience threat to customary practices of foodmaking, provisioning and commerce. Synecdochic, part-for-whole, reasoning guides food journeys and helps determine the fate of perishable foods as they attempt to cross semi-permeable thresholds that delineate and connect nation-states, and that make possible, even as they also restrict, the flow of international trade. 2021-04-05T16:22:21Z 2021-04-05T16:22:21Z 2019-07 2021-04-02T14:45:20Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1552-8014 1751-7443 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130367 Paxson, Heather. '“Don’t pack a pest”: parts, wholes, and the porosity of food borders.' Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 22, 5 (July 2019): 657-673. © 2019 Association for the Study of Food and Society en http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2019.1638136 Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Informa UK Limited Prof. Paxson via Ece Turnator |
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