Vandal: Issue on Food, Migration, and Movement

Vandal: Issue on Food, Migration, and Movement

Food is a common and constant variable among us; everyone must eat. Vandal is looking for fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, photographs, interviews and visual art that engages the theme: food, migration, and movement.

We interpret this call as broadly as possible, to include all topics that deal with food/foodways, and migration or political movement(s). The movement of food(s) and people(s) has always intimately connected politics, culture, and identity, marking ‘us’ and ‘them’. Food migrations are surely among the most globally transformative moments in recorded history. Christopher Columbus sailed in search of spices, and sugar was inextricable in the trade triangle that brought so many enslaved Africans to the “New World.” Sugar, coffee and cocoa remain among the most traded commodities worldwide. As food often reflects public policy’s focus, food also becomes the vehicle through which we voice our politics. These expressions can be witnessed in government corn subsidies, hunger strikes, the establishment of local community farms and protests on every continent resulting from rising food prices within the last year. Our options or lack of options in food ultimately effect health and culture. To engage food is to engage the most crucial aspects of all societies.

Please submit to: foodmigration@vandaljournal.com

Vandal is a new literary/art journal for transformative social change founded in 2009 in College Station, Texas and associated with Texas A&M. It publishes scholarly and artistic fiction, non-fiction, art and literature. For more information see: http://www.vandaljournal.com/

Deadline: March 1, 2012