Recent Perspectives in the Sociology of Organization and Food – Paper Development Session

The sociologies of organization and food are dynamic, multi-faceted, and multi-paradigmatic fields that delve into various organizational forms or aspects of food production, distribution, and consumption, and their impact on society. We invite junior scholars (pre-doc and early-stage post-doc) to contribute to the dynamic discourses in both fields by submitting work-in-progress research papers that we seek to advance during this paper development session. Papers might deal with, but are not limited to the following issues:

• Conceptual Frameworks: Papers that draw on sociological theories to analyze organization and food in relation to wider social dynamics or explore new kinds of sociological imagination.
• Organization and Food as a Social Practice: Papers exploring how organization and food shape collective activities, standards, identity, traditions, and social gatherings.
• Inequalities: Investigate organizational and food access disparities across different social groups.
• Historical and Trans-National Perspectives: Papers uncovering food and organization through historical and comparative lenses across time and space, revealing societal differences, changes, and continuities.
• Politics: Papers examining how food and organization become a political tool or site of struggle.

Please submit your abstracts and contribute to advancing our understanding of organization and food within recent societies. Please note, after accepting your abstract we will invite you to hand in an extended paper of up to 6000 words 2 weeks before the forum starts. Editors of both RC-Journals, the “Journal of Organizational Sociology” and the “International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food” will discuss your paper together with your peers.