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Hidden Foodscapes and Power in Rev. G.V. Sampson's Statistical Surveys of County Londonderry (1802-1814)
Dublin Gastronomy Symposium (Dublin, Ireland)
2018
Abstract
mpson’s vision ‘of a moral, industrious, and substantial yeomanry, who will be improving cultivators, solvent tenants, loyal subjects, moral agents, and instructed Christians’ brings together the major strands of discourse and power in his works: theological, political, scientific, improving. His scientific catalogues were intended both as the harmonious expression of the plenitude of creation in his corner of the island and also as a foundation for resource management by the local proprietors. Along with his other scientific contributions in mineralogy and soils, they were intended to contribute to a green revolution avant la lettre that would support a restored Christian polity. His intent was to ‘reduce the provincial to the scientific’ as the foundation for improved agricultural practice. Even as this vision places the provincial as subaltern, the Linnaean catalogues’ power of naming, and Sampson’s irrepressible observations, restore some traces of lost foodscapes of rural Ireland, including the social distribution of foods and preferences in preparation and consumption. His copious naming of species and varieties creates the possibility for a few more living things to enter the ‘ark of taste’.
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- Title
- Hidden Foodscapes and Power in Rev. G.V. Sampson's Statistical Surveys of County Londonderry (1802-1814)
- Creators
- Mary F. Wack - Washington State University, Office for Undergraduate Education
- Conference
- Dublin Gastronomy Symposium (Dublin, Ireland)
- Academic Unit
- Office for Undergraduate Education
- Identifiers
- 99900599646701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding