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Hovedinnhold
I dette møtet forteller Førsteamanuensis Ernesto Semán om sin undervisning relatert til mathistorie, og hvordan bærekraft er del av det. Etter presentasjonen har vi møte for Bærekraftkollegiets gamle og nye medlemmer (alle kan bli med!).
Ernesto Semán
Associate Professor of Latin American History
Department of Foreign Languages
Teaching the history of food. Learning the limits of sustainability
A course on a history of Latin America through food allows students to engage with the crucial dimensions of the region’s past and present, from slavery to the Anthropocene. One of the main obvious pedagogical challenges in this course is how to turn “food” into a historical object beyond its initial and understandable attraction, how food is, and it will always be, more than food: from old recipes of indigenous food to a study of the environmental strains that global demands puts on superfoods to the relation between agricultural production and national identities during the state-formation period.
Teaching these stories during a crucial point of the Anthropocene and paying attention to reflections and insights by students (most of them from a younger generation) helps to reconsider critical historical assumptions about periodizations; notions of race, class and gender; the consolidation of the global economy; the continuities and ruptures upon which the idea of “modernity” itself emerged; and the contested meanings embedded in the notion of “sustainability”.
