Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Food Security and Paradoxes of Supply in Chukotka

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (4)
Authors
Davydov, Vladimir N.; Davydova, Elena A.
Contact information
Davydov, Vladimir N.: Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0003-2738-4609; Davydova, Elena A.: Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0002-9299-7551
Keywords
Chukotka; Arctic; supply; expired products; food security; food autonomy
Abstract

During the extensive fieldwork in Chukotka in 2017–2019, the authors investigated the problem of food supply in remote northern villages and in reindeer herder’s camps in tundra. The assortment in rural shops usually does not meet all the nutritional needs of the local people; the products are often expired and too expensive for the income of many of them. Local micro-networks of food distribution, experiments of independent production of scarce foods, and a variety of techniques for preserving, processing and obtaining itin the context of interaction with the environment become the response of the local community. However, in addition to these practices, the paper pays attention to the specificity of local supply models and the discourse about the fresh and spoiled food. In this text, on the one hand, the authors consider how expired and officially prohibited for sale food gets a second life in the Arctic villages and tundra. On the other hand, they investigate the ideas about quality of the products formed under the influence of local supply and food production systems. The authors argue that the expired food in Chukotka is the result of infrastructural inequality and, accordingly, dissimilar opportunities for organizing high-quality supply

Pages
656–661
EDN
WTOAPE
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/150065

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