f Food, Anxiety and Dependency in a Post-Colonial World

The articles by Kolleen Guy, Lauren Janes and Susanne Freidberg open up new perspectives on colonial food studies. They show how scholars can use food to explore social relations on many scales: relations among countries, among peoples, but also social interactions at the level of the school yard or household. In order to understand the role of food in social relations, researchers must link food production and distribution analytically with its consumption. The authors also suggest that food studies can lay bare the anxieties that infuse social relations when power and responsibility are unequally distributed.