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agential realism
Australia
Australian politics
Author_Elaine Mei Lien Pratley
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conflict studies
entanglement
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feminism
feminist peacebuilding
food
Food studies
forthcoming
international relations
intra-action
John Paul Ledearch
Karen Barad
peace
peacebuilding
posthumanism
youth
Product details
- ISBN 9781399547697
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Hungry for Peace invites readers into the remarkable world of food as an active agent of conflict and connection. From community kitchens to food festivals and shared meals around tables, Elaine Mei Lien Pratley shows how food shapes tensions, sparks understanding and produces everyday peace. Through participatory fieldwork with young people in Melbourne, Australia, ordinary acts – eating consciously, sampling unfamiliar cuisines and reducing food waste – emerge as powerful, agentic gestures that negotiate conflict, build trust and nurture connection.
Blending feminist peace studies, food research and posthumanist theory, the book reveals how more-than-human actors – smells, ingredients, tables and atmospheres – participate directly in peace and conflict. It shows food practices not as background, but as lively collaborators in peacebuilding, offering new ways to understand, navigate, and shape conflict in our interconnected, entangled world.
Dr Elaine Mei Lien Pratley is a Malaysian peace practitioner and Rotary Peace Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Australia, working with themes related to culture, food, and youth peacebuilding. She is Co-Chair of the Global Peace Conference, Founder of Peace Kitchen and advisor to Women Peace Makers, Cambodia.
