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Mămăligă as Metahistory : Between Subordination and Revolt

University of British Columbia. Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies

Dr. Drace-Francis will be drawing on the traditional Romanian trope of the ‘non-/explosive’ corn mush as a common trope in discussions about the limits of collective dissent/popular revolt in 20th century Southeastern Europe. The talk proposes a trajectory through the cultural and political history of maize in the region, first an ‘escape crop’ (James Scott) and then a means of control and neo-enserfment of local populations paradoxically during periods of independence. What is the relation between ‘national’ foods and historical agency and what is the political significance of a formula that plays on the conjunction between ‘culture’ (crop) and the testing ground for cultural insurrection and insubordination?

eng

2025-01-27

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/90220

Unreviewed

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