The implementation of neoliberal economic and political policies is often touted as a way to increase overall individual well-being and freedom. While these policies may benefit those already wielding economic security and political power, marginalized populations often bear the negative cost associated with such policies. As deregulation and privatization increases, social safety nets and social spending are dramatically reduced. At the local level, liberalization has resulted in increased surveillance and regulation of public space. Organized resistance to global corporatization and increased economic and political marginalization has occurred across the globe. Resisting neoliberalism is complex as the adaptability of the state and capital requires an adaptive form of resistance. Portland Food Not Bombs provides an empirical example of an oppositional social movement organization that resists neoliberal logic and reclaims public space for collective use by serving free meals. This case study includes participant observation of both Portland FNB chapters conducted at chapter specific meal preparation and serving sites. It also includes ten interviews with individuals who are heavily involved with the SMO. Publicly available documents such as Facebook pages, chapter specific websites, and the FNB website provided important contextual information as well. This study finds that the organizational structure of Portland FNB lends itself to more democratic practices and ideals, coinciding with the values of the respondents. Through transparent, consensus decision-making and a resistance to formal leadership, Portland FNB facilitates a different form of political engagement. By using public space, Portland FNB temporarily alters the physical urban environment by socially constructing a more inclusive space, emphasizing that collectively using public space, is indeed a human right. Portland FNB seeks to create a more just society within the existing institutional framework, while rejecting practices associated with 501(c)(3) organizations and other mainstream SMOs.

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In 2019,  Movice and CT created a mural that depicts faces of  high-ranking military officers who were in command when more than 6.000 civilians were killed by soldiers and were presented as guerilla members. After being censored by the military, the mural was reproduced on hundreds of walls in Colombia and other cities such as  New York, Berlin, Paris. On Twitter, the hashtag was used at least three times a day for two years.  Then, how could the contents of ¿Quién dio la orden? (Who gave the order? - WGO)  contribute to social change in the digital society while others go unnoticed? Through in-depth interviews and online participant observation, the organisational practices that produced WGO and the practices of social appropriation are analysed. In particular, the role played by affects and connective action. The research approach is from a non-media-centric perspective, a holistic view of the online/offline communication process of meaning-making. The study relies on the Latin American Theory of Mediations with some components from the theories of Collective Action, Connective Action and Affective Intensity. The findings mainly show that, first, the production of WGO was a permanent negotiation of collective meanings to reach the common goal. Second, WGO was appropriate when the citizens participated in the production of WGO and were able to  identify themselves subjectively. Third, the production of WGO increased affective intensities that triggered exchanges of discourse and action between diverse groups of social actors. In terms of social change, the alternative narrative of WGO was partially legitimised for Colombian society, turning it into a collective referent that challenged the hegemonic narrative of “rotten apples”. / En 2019, Movice y la Campaña por la Verdad crearon un mural que muestra los rostros de militares de alto rango que estaban al mando en el periodo en el que más de 6.000 civiles fueron asesinados y presentados como miembros de la guerrilla. Tras ser censurado por miembros del Ejército, el mural fue reproducido en cientos de paredes de Colombia y otras ciudades como Nueva York, Berlín o París. En Twitter, el hashtag se utilizó al menos tres veces al día durante dos años. Entonces, ¿cómo pudieron los contenidos de ¿Quién dio la orden? (QDO) contribuir al cambio social en la sociedad digital mientras otros pasan desapercibidos? A través de entrevistas en profundidad y observaciones participantes online, se analizan las prácticas organizativas que produjeron QDO y las prácticas de apropiación social. En particular, el papel desempeñado por los afectos y la acción conectiva. El enfoque de la investigación toma una perspectiva no mediático-céntrica, una visión holística del proceso de comunicación online/offline de producción de sentido. El estudio se basa en la Teoría Latinoamericana de las Mediaciones con algunos componentes de las teorías de la Acción Colectiva, la Acción Conectiva y la Intensidad Afectiva. Los resultados muestran principalmente que, en primer lugar, la producción de QDO fue una negociación permanente de significados colectivos para alcanzar el objetivo común. En segundo lugar, QDO fue apropiado desde la participación de los ciudadanos en la producción y cuando éstos lograron identificarse subjetivamente. Tercero, la producción de QDO aumentó las intensidades afectivas que desencadenaron intercambios de discurso y acción entre diversos grupos de actores sociales. En términos de cambio social, la narrativa alternativa de QDO fue parcialmente legitimada por la sociedad colombiana, convirtiéndose en un referente colectivo que desafió la narrativa hegemónica de las "manzanas podridas".

Cooking and Dining in Times of War and Peace: Changing Contexts and Modes of Food Production, Preparation and Consumption in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina Mgr. Markéta Slavková Abstract (English) This project opens up the topic of armed conflict and subsequent post-conflict development in the Former Yugoslavia from a non-traditional perspective - that of the anthropology of food. At the centre of attention there stand the ways in which the production, preparation and consumption of food were and are carried out in Srebrenica, BiH in the context of the dramatic changes that the region has undergone over the last few decades. Food is the precondition of reproduction, a primary form of interaction with the world, a mediator of socialization, a sign of identity and social cohesion but also a tool of power. In this sense, Farquhar notes that the "mantra" 'You are what you eat,' continues to be thematized by social sciences (Farquhar, 2006: 146). On the other hand, the question of the relationship between social actors and their "daily bread" in conditions of starvation and overall material scarcity in wartime has not been satisfyingly answered. This project, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, addresses these issues more closely, affording greater insight into them.

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