tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569744605620721949.post6748577841377333970..comments2023-11-03T00:27:59.937-07:00Comments on History at the Table: Anna Duhon: Windows onto the farmscape: Becoming part of the storyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569744605620721949.post-36360895778234885342013-04-11T11:53:03.296-07:002013-04-11T11:53:03.296-07:00Yes, I found myself thinking about scale as well. ...Yes, I found myself thinking about scale as well. I think this is part of what I was grappling with in my thoughts on <a href="http://historyatthetable.blogspot.com/2013/04/tyler-french-attending-to-other-tables.html" rel="nofollow">Tyler French's post</a> - how to find the right scale at which to operate, and also how to help people link the various scales together in their own thinking? I really like David Bell and Gill Valentine's book "Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat" for this, because they structure their discussions on every scale from the individual body to the global (and show how they are of course all interconnected). <br /><br />The other thing I'm thinking about in relation to these projects is the various tools for elicitation, exhibition, and documentation that FEP is so good at using. I wonder if a next step in local food/history collaborations is to blur the lines between producers and consumers of knowledge a bit more and to develop projects where people are doing some of their own collecting and exhibiting? Some of these projects definitely point in that direction, and I'm wondering whether we could think of more of a "potluck" approach in developing programming and exhibits, rather than having the representational tools all in the hands of the "professionals."CATHY STANTONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471830785628905120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569744605620721949.post-91527785026273926732013-03-23T10:59:25.060-07:002013-03-23T10:59:25.060-07:00Wonderful post and projects! I found this very ins...Wonderful post and projects! I found this very inspiring, Anna. <br /><br />Themes that leaped out to me included interdisciplinarity, storytelling (again), place, and scale. It seems to me that scale is an important part of our discussion of the role of public history. The food movement deals at various scales - international, what with the impact of globalization; national, at both the level of federal policy and of the infrastructure and food supply; regional, state, and municipal. It's interesting that you found the "county" size in your region to provide an optimum scale on which to make an impact, and yet even within that, it was the activation of networks at the hyperlocal level that was most deeply engaging.<br /><br />Looking forward to learning more about the theory behind "photo-elicitation," which is new to me, and considering further this conversation about "frame," and how it relates to these issues of scale.Integrated Systemshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12326071120855371015noreply@blogger.com