{"id":18693,"date":"2025-05-26T01:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=18693"},"modified":"2025-05-26T01:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:55:46","slug":"politicization-of-food-culture-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/politicization-of-food-culture-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicization of Food Culture in India: Stereotypes of Food Customs as a Basis for Collective Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18715\" src=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250616_poster-3-768x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250616_poster-3-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250616_poster-3-768x576-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250616_poster-3-768x576-160x120.png 160w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250616_poster-3-768x576-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 99vw, 768px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date: <\/strong>June 25th<strong>,<\/strong> Wednesday, 2025, 16:00 &#8211; 17:00<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<p>Presenter: Chaesung Jung (Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies)<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-mrdng-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-mrdng-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col text-sm pb-9\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-3\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\">\n<div class=\"py-2 px-3 text-base md:px-4 m-auto md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto flex flex-1 gap-3 text-base juice:gap-4 juice:md:gap-6 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem]\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto gap-3\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"37ea1e8f-8826-4960-8dcf-a8653dffe0da\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"537\">Since the early 2010s, the cow protection movement in North India has become increasingly coercive, with cow protection groups (<em data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"144\">Gau Raksha Dal<\/em>) emerging across the region. These armed vigilante groups, often operating with the tacit approval of state authorities, have carried out violent campaigns that target communities <em data-start=\"325\" data-end=\"335\">presumed<\/em> to consume beef\u2014namely Muslims, Christians, and members of the lowest castes. These operations serve as an effective political tool for surveilling and controlling the everyday lives of these groups. This presentation will explore the cultural background that allows food\u2014particularly dietary customs\u2014to be weaponized as a tool of political repression in India, focusing on dominant stereotypes around food practices.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"537\">Chaesung Jung studied anthropology at Seoul National University and sociology at the University of Delhi, and has taught courses on Indian society and culture at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. In addition to publishing several papers on the caste system and Hinduism, their recent research focuses on the sociocultural transformations of India\u2019s urban middle class since the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"51\" data-end=\"547\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: June 25th, Wednesday, 2025, 16:00 &#8211; 17:00 Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101) Presenter: Chaesung Jung (Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies) Since the early 2010s, the cow protection movement in North India has become increasingly coercive, with cow protection groups (Gau Raksha Dal) emerging across the region. These armed vigilante groups, often operating with the tacit approval of state authorities, have carried out violent campaigns that target communities presumed to consume beef\u2014namely Muslims, Christians, and members of the lowest castes. These operations serve as an effective political tool for surveilling and controlling the everyday lives of these groups. This presentation will explore the cultural background that allows food\u2014particularly dietary customs\u2014to be weaponized as a tool of political repression in India, focusing on dominant stereotypes around food practices. Chaesung Jung studied anthropology at Seoul National University and sociology at the&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18716,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693\/revisions\/18716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}