Shifting Foodscapes in the Pamirs of Tajikistan

What is it about?

The paper argues that using food as a prism allows differentiated insights about society, social change, and the effects on local living conditions. The paper introduces an approach called ‘Foodscapes.’ The goal is to shed light on food provision in the Western Pamirs of Tajikistan, during different historical time periods. The Pamirs is a rural high mountain region in Central Asia. Foodscapes are seen as socially, spatially, and environmentally situated and contextualized arrangements, which are shaped and changed both by environmental conditions and social processes. Findings from empirical research conducted in a remote and small mountain village, as well as historical information collected in archives in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia support this understanding.

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