Good, clean, and fair food for all: Slow Food role in safeguarding food heritage in Brazil and Germany

Identificador:  TDX:4095

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX4095

Autors:  Kalix García Santana, Thalita

Resum:
This thesis examines the role of civil society movements in safeguarding the food heritage. It starts from the Brazilian context, where the process of registering these heritages is difficult and slow. The object of this research is Slow Food, an international movement, which has more than 160 pa'isos, advocating good, clean and fair food for all. In each locality, the movement has diverse histories, with different social, cultural, economical and political contexts. The thesis presents the result! of a five-year ethnography where it has been compared! Brazil and Germany, allowing a broader perspective of the actions and agendas of the movement. Ha implies! fieldwork at the two pa'isos between 2019 and 2021, with observation participating!, in-depth interviews and documentary analysis. The research is based on a postcolonial, feminist and intersectal analysis that allows us to go into the deba! of food heritage and its incongruities, and to relate it to the articulation of Slow Food in these two pa'isos. Examine! movement in different localities and compare! How it is organised in these contexts, it is possible to see the difficulties and solutions, the internal disputes and conflicts, and how movement adapts in space and time. On the basis of this analysis, it is possible to point out the functions it plays, or not, in safeguarding the food heritage.