Hunger and Feeding Policies among the Advance of the Soya Fron- tier: The Resignification of the ‘Olla(s) Popular(es)’

CABRAL XIMENA, IBÁÑEZ ILEANA, HUERGO JULIANA

Gothenburg, Suecia

Congreso; XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology Sociology on the Move; 2010

Interna- tional Sociological Association

<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> ¶  The transformation in the traditional eating habits of popular sectors can be reconstructed in the image of the olla popular (soup kitchen). This image operates as an analyzer that condenses these changes in response to a policy on the bodies in a neo-colonial scheme. In Argentina, with the advance of soya monoculture, since 2001 its consumption is promoted from certain focused policies of meal plans. The State begins to “fatten” the popular sectors and the impact of this is embodied in the forms of sub- jectivity, socialization & health of those living in conditions of poverty and exclusion. We will perform a historical analysis of the senses associated to feeding, with practices of gathering & family and social organization around food, traversed by the production model and food policies in recent decades. These practices & senses will be rebuilt in the olla popular in three scenarios: in the street–associated with the struggle & demands of different collectives for “managing the olla” among all–in family every- day–ordinary modes of feeding of popular sectors–& in the meal center–as a material & symbolic state intervention.