Gleanings CFP – Fall 2025

Forms of violence in the food and farm system

Proposals are due Sunday, September 14, 2025.

Gleanings CFP – Fall 2025

Summary: Grad students and postdocs, showcase your research in Gleanings, a short-form publication series from Culture & Agriculture. This issue’s theme is forms of violence in the food and farm system. 

Proposals are due Sunday, September 14, 2025.

Details: Gleanings, a short-form publication series from the American Anthropology Association’s Culture and Agriculture section, is pleased to announce that we are seeking proposals from graduate students and postdocs, for short essays (1500 words) to be published in the fall of 2025. Gleanings is an intellectually rigorous, theme-based series focused on food and agriculture. It promotes the work of graduate students and postdoctoral anthropologists by featuring short essays based on original research. You can see recent publications on Culture and Agriculture’s website, cultureandagriculture.org/gleanings.  

This issue’s theme is forms of violence in the food and farm system. We invite submissions to ethnographically examine and anthropologically theorize about violence in food and farming. “Violence” here is broadly construed, including but not limited to physical violence, including but not limited to direct violence. How does violence work through food and farm systems? How are myriad forms of violence in food and farming experienced by people, and what are the ramifications? How do people resist or create nonviolence in food and farm systems?

Proposals are encouraged to take up any of the following themes, as they relate to food and farming: 

·         Structural violence, structures of violence

·         Indirect and direct forms of violence

·         Warfare and its effects on food and farming, and vice versa

·         Racialization, racism, and racial violence

·         Gendered and sexual violence

·         The relationship between the state, food systems, and violence

·         Justice, peacemaking, and resistance

Proposals should be limited to 150-300 words, rooted in original ethnographic and anthropological research, and speak to this issue’s theme. If accepted, we request you submit your essay manuscript (1500 words) within six weeks of acceptance, accompanied by an optional 1-2 images. 

Proposals are due Sunday, September 14 via this Google form. Writers will be notified of their acceptance no later than Friday, September 26.

If you have any questions, please contact Culture and Agriculture Gleanings Editor Rebecca Dudley, at rebecca.a.dudley@wustl.edu, with “Gleanings CFP” in the subject line.