The caving in and the crawling out: Creating intergenerational vernacular food literacies

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Shukla, Anuprita (2025) The caving in and the crawling out: Creating intergenerational vernacular food literacies. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 55 (1). pp. 99-117. ISSN 0305-7925

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Abstract

Competing ideologies of literacy are well documented in the literature, articulating the gap between everyday literacies in people’s lives and formalised literacy norms. Despite this recognition of literacy as ‘situated’, the gap in perceptions across generations regarding knowledge content and learning forms remains underexplored. This article attempts to bridge this gap by investigating the effects of intergenerational learning on indigenous farming communities in western India from a vernacular food literacy and agricultural perspective. Examining what social meanings are ascribed to literacy using a qualitative case study, it investigates the value attached to different knowledges across the generations. Problematising literacy, it explores what knowledge is considered valid and worth preserving for sustainable development. The author argues that intergenerational knowledge and everyday literacy practices contest the hierarchies of learning and call for an urgent reconstruction of literacy from a vernacular food perspective.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Funding Information: This research was funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund as part of the Transforming India’s Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable food Supplies (TIGR2ESS) project under the Grant: BBSRC BB/P027970/1.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	india,intergenerational,farming,indigenous,literacy,vernacular,education ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3304
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	03 Jan 2024 03:19
Last Modified:	30 Jan 2025 14:12
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/94049
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