HALO-HALO ECOLOGIES: The Emergent Environmentals Behind Filipino Food
Online Book Talk by Alyssa Paredes and Marvin Montefrio
March 18, 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CST
Virtual (zoom) event talk by Professors Marvin Joseph Montefrio (Environmental Studies, Yale-NUS, Singapore) and Alyssa Paredes (Anthropology, University of Michigan) on their exciting new co-edited book, Halo-halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/halo-halo-ecologies-the-emergent-environments-behind-filipino-food/
Date of book talk event: Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm CST
Halo-Halo Ecologies takes as its starting point the metaphor of halo-halo, frequently described as a symbol of Filipino identity for the ways it mixes local and foreign ingredients into a concoction now readily recognized as typically "Pinoy." But halo-halo is also a product of Philippine ecosystems-that is to say, it represents an eclectic blend of environmental tales in an ever evolving and highly politicized foodscape.
The first of its kind, Halo-Halo Ecologies book project brings together a transnational community of food enthusiasts, engaged scholars, and social and environmental activists to set the table for a new canon
in Philippine and Filipino/x Studies, as in Food Studies more
broadly.
Alyssa Paredes is on Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. Her research lies at the intersection of plantation economies. global supply chains, and social mobilization between the Philippines and Japan. Her work appears in Ethnos, Food, Culture & Society, Gastronomica, and the Journal of Political Ecology, and as well as in the edited collections The Promise of Multi-Species Justice, and Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene.
Marvin Montefrio is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He is also an affiliate faculty in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore. His research interest is at the intersection of food, agriculture, and environment in the context of Southeast Asia.
Date posted
Feb 17, 2025
Date updated
Feb 17, 2025