ENTRE O ATIVISMO ALIMENTAR E A GASTRONOMIA BRASILEIRA: DESAFIOS E CONTRADIÇÕES DO SLOW FOOD EM UM PAÍS DE DESIGUALDADES

Abstract

This study analyzes food activism in Brazil, taking as its starting point the restlessness caused by the Slow Food movement and its contradictions in the face of the Brazilian reality. From a critical and interdisciplinary approach, the study does not seek to validate or refute the movement, but to understand how it highlights the limits of exogenous proposals in the face of the country's structural inequalities. The work is based on the concept of food activism as an intersectional and political practice, based on authors such as Counihan and Siniscalchi, Portilho and Schubert, and articulates it with the Brazilian context through the debate on public policies, traditional knowledge and social movements such as the MST. The research highlighted the centrality of community and popular experiences — such as those of quilombola communities and agrarian reform — in the field of food sovereignty, revealing that, although some of Slow Food's principles are close to these struggles, its actions in Brazil are still ambiguous and relatively distant from these practices.