food security discourses: fao-jcu workshop

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Food Security Discourses

Discourse is the way people talk a bout

something

PoliticsProfessionsWorkplaces

Social groupsCultures

Examples:

MetaphorsTropes

SynecdocheMetonymy

Allegory

Discourses consist of “short cuts”:

Metaphor: “Understandingand explaining one kind of thingin terms of another”

Lakoff and Johnson, MetaphorsWe Live By

“Metaphors open doors”

Trope: “Storytelling devices andconventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience member’sminds and expectations.” Tvtropes.com

A

B

C

Synecdoche: “Part stands for the whole”

Metonymy: “Figure of speechwhen an object replaces theother that is closely associatedwith it.” i.e. “Wall St.” “Hollywood”

Allegory: “A story, poem, orpicture that can be interpretedto reveal hidden meanings, Typically a moral or political one.”

Some environmental discourses…

“Earth”

“Pastoral”

“Wild”/“Wilderness”

“Pollution””

“Eco-Apocalypse”

“Eco-Utopia”

“Progress”

“Economy”

“People Power”

“Civilization”

“Hunger”?

“Food Security?”