Since 2010, more than two hundred cases of violence related to the sale or alleged consumption of beef or non-vegetarian products, against religious minorities and low castes, have occurred in India. How can food trigger such violent attacks? In a context of deep transformations of the social structure, my dissertation suggests that these incidents mirror symbolic struggles between religious and caste groups, and that they indicate the continued cultural hegemony of the Hindu high castes, of which vegetarianism is one of the most emblematic markers. Based on secondary analysis of quantitative surveys and on fieldwork conducted in Uttar Pradesh, a region in northern India, I show how this diet remains salient in the contemporary period. In d...
In India there has been a recent increase in violence and intolerance towards people who eat beef. W...
International audience.• Objective/research issueFor health, ecological or social convictions and co...
The approach of Critical Legal Studies that law is a cultural artefact that can be criticised is ta...
Since 2010, more than two hundred cases of violence related to the sale or alleged consumption of be...
Depuis 2010, plus de deux cent cas de violence liés à la vente ou à la consommation présumée de bœuf...
International audienceThis article explores trajectories of eating vegetarian and non-vegetarian of ...
The fact that meat consumption is allegedly on the rise in India, a country often depicted as primar...
The food practices of Hindus in north India have historically been viewed through the prisms of cast...
Transitioning towards a plant-based diet is considered both ethical and environmentally friendly fro...
Large-scale survey data are used to question the most public claims about food habits in India. It ...
Meat-eating in India cannot be analysed simply as a marker of ritual impurity: the culinary experien...
Food traditions in India are very rigid, since they are part of the religions rites of the different...
This study brings together scholarship in economics, sociology, and anthropology to explore the conn...
James T. Siegel Benedict Anderson Bernd Lambert David LelyveldThis dissertation explores the rela...
Does development affect food practices? The nutrition transition model correlates positively meat co...
In India there has been a recent increase in violence and intolerance towards people who eat beef. W...
International audience.• Objective/research issueFor health, ecological or social convictions and co...
The approach of Critical Legal Studies that law is a cultural artefact that can be criticised is ta...
Since 2010, more than two hundred cases of violence related to the sale or alleged consumption of be...
Depuis 2010, plus de deux cent cas de violence liés à la vente ou à la consommation présumée de bœuf...
International audienceThis article explores trajectories of eating vegetarian and non-vegetarian of ...
The fact that meat consumption is allegedly on the rise in India, a country often depicted as primar...
The food practices of Hindus in north India have historically been viewed through the prisms of cast...
Transitioning towards a plant-based diet is considered both ethical and environmentally friendly fro...
Large-scale survey data are used to question the most public claims about food habits in India. It ...
Meat-eating in India cannot be analysed simply as a marker of ritual impurity: the culinary experien...
Food traditions in India are very rigid, since they are part of the religions rites of the different...
This study brings together scholarship in economics, sociology, and anthropology to explore the conn...
James T. Siegel Benedict Anderson Bernd Lambert David LelyveldThis dissertation explores the rela...
Does development affect food practices? The nutrition transition model correlates positively meat co...
In India there has been a recent increase in violence and intolerance towards people who eat beef. W...
International audience.• Objective/research issueFor health, ecological or social convictions and co...
The approach of Critical Legal Studies that law is a cultural artefact that can be criticised is ta...