Elizabeth Krause Co-edits Special ‘Authenticities’ Section of Food Studies Journal Gastronomica

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Elizabeth Krause, professor of anthropology, has co-edited a special section on “Authenticities” in the Spring 2023 edition of Gastronomica, a peer-review journal of critical food studies.

Krause co-authored the introduction and published a research article in the issue, “Authentic Possibilities: Uncommon Lessons from Slow Figs and Fast Fashion.”

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In the special section, Krause and her co-editor Lauren Crossland-Marr highlight how authenticity is an agent in a cultural process – how it defines, it draws boundaries, it supports identity and how it excludes.

“All the authors in this special section tackle big questions in critical food studies, including forms of modern exclusion, definitions of authenticity, and multispecies connections in craft production,” they write in their introduction. “Indeed, exclusion weighs heavily not only on those studying craft production, but also on those engaging in it.”

The complete edition of Gastronomica featuring Krause’s contributions is available to the UMass Amherst community online from the university’s libraries.