Together with Ana María Cruz and Jan Grill, ABI staff member Viviana García Pinzón has won the Global Souths Hub Best Contribution Prize.
Their article "The Politics of Care: The Pot Lid of Resistance in Colombia's Street Cooking" was awarded the prize. In it, they shed light on the Politics of Care, taking a closer look at Street Cooking in Cali, Colombia. They explore how street cooking became a powerful form of protest and collective care during moments of social unrest in Colombia. Focusing on the experiences of women activists with collective community kitchens in Cali, García Pinzón, Cruz and Grill examine how care became not only a means of survival, but also a form of resistance and political action. Through this, the authors reflect on the complexities and contradictions of care and care work, and the political implications and potential of caring in contexts of protests, violence, and marginalisation.
The Global Souths Hub Best Contribution Prize celebrates outstanding work that enriches the field of Global South Studies. The prize honours scholarship that is original, accessible and engaging. The judges praised the piece for its strong sensory storytelling, originality, and accessibility, as well as its timely exploration of non-violent protest and social justice. Judge Silas Udenze described the article as: “Highly engaging, original, and accessible,” offering “a unique framing of food as political practice and protest”.
The article was written in the framework of the Early-Career Research Tandem project Caring Life in and from the Urban Margins: Women, Ollas Comunitarias, and Everyday Resistance in Cali, Colombia, funded by the De/Coloniality Now initiative at the University of Freiburg, and in cooperation with the collaborative research network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR).
The announcement of the winners as well as other outstanding contributions is available on the Global Souths Hub website.