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In Food We Trust? Technologies of Governance in Industrialized Food Systems

Questions related to technological development, food safety and consumer trust in food increased in importance throughout the 20th century. Today industrialized food systems are integrated parts of everyday life. However, governmental agencies, legislator s, food producers, scientists and consumer organizations still struggle to ensure that food is safe and to deal with on-going technological development. This project will analyse how industrialized food and food systems were integrated into everyday life through its sibling systems of food safety and consumer trust. We will investigate policy oriented, academic and public debates and controversies on the social and cultural aspects of food production and consumption. Our approach will examine the cultural ly contingent processes that led to the present industrialized system of highly manipulated and transformed foods. By investigating themes related to food safety and consumer trust in a perspective that combines science and technology studies (STS) and hi storical studies of technology we offer alternative visions of how the present system emerged, its historical roots and transformations in time. A historical study of ?the technologies of trust? can improve our understanding of the present situation of ou r food system and offer alternative visions for securing safe food and consumer trust in the future.1. How have our conceptualizations and handlings of food safety and consumer trust changed during the 20th century? 2. How have institutional setups, tech nologies and mediators been utilized to transform food in time and space to become healthy and trustworthy? 3. How have various actors acted upon food, technology and people to produce or format individuals and collectives so that they suit the prevailing systems of food safety and consumer trust? 4. How have this transformed our relationship to the food we eat and thus the culture of food, safety and trust in Norway through the 20th century.

Prosjektleder:
Per Østby
Institusjon:
UoH-sektor/Norges teknisk-naturvitenskape/Det humanistiske fakultet - HF
Aktivitetsnavn:
Samfunnsutviklingens kulturell
Prosjektstatus:
Bevilgning
Prosjektperiode:
01.04.2013 - 31.12.2016
Geografi:
Norge/SØR-TRØNDELAG/TRONDHEIM
Fagområder:
Humaniora/Tverr flerfag. hum. og andre
Prosjektnummer:
220969