villages, I examine how much their livelihoods have changed since industrially processed foods, hybrid seeds, and new cultivation systems began to circulate through their landscapes.

My methodology is decolonial in its orientation and post-colonial in its reading of the present. Throughout the fieldwork, I stay with communities, traveling through remote areas, recording oral histories, making pictorial narrations of the journeys, and building an archive of food habits, recipes, and ingredients. I observe local marketplaces, religious practices, NGO activity, and cultural performances. I also document the political and commercial extraction of natural resources surrounding these lands, including river dredging, kaolin clay mining, and stone and sand mining, alongside the rapid rise of hybrid urban food culture and the visual landscape of local and international food industry advertising.

What continues to emerge from these parallel tracks is a question I keep returning to: what is it about food that makes change so difficult to contemplate? And as we move deeper into the Anthropocene, are we developing the capacity to consider the most radical shift of all, a shift in the very basis of how and what we eat?

This publication remains a work in progress, an entry point into a longer inquiry that is still unfolding, toward deeper research on post-Anthropocene food politics, commodification, and the relationship between what we consume and the environmental crisis we are already living inside.